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I for one have stopped posting any content to lemmy.ml communities.
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Absolutely! Grow a community on any instance that doesn't allow the kind of users that lemmy.ml does I say.
I think we gave them too much power by making their communities as big as we did
I'm glad there is enough critical mass to move past those fucking hatemongers. "Pure free speech and anarchy!" If you say exactly what we want you to, also don't accidentally offend us with normal fucking words
"Free speech!"
Ok tankie.
"Not like that!"
Or more subtly:
I can't even say life's a bitch over there without being filtered because of misogyny which I guess? But that's not my intent and I don't think the majority read it with that connotation. What if I just want to quote a Nas classic?
It gets dumber: last I checked their word filter doesn't pay any regard to a comment's set language so even If I set my comment to French "retard" will be filtered on ml communities and to their users regardless of where I comment.
Edit: actually, let's see if this has been fixed, test French comment in reply to this:
Edit2: lmao
I've tried to talk about fire retardants there once... It gets cut too.
oh no I'm not allowed to use a slur even though I'm using it in a common phrase that originates as the slur being used as a slur
I'm supposed to get away with doing things
Did you only read half of my comment?
What about the French example?
You said two stupid things but only one of them was fun to make a joke out of.
Your french shit is equally stupid. "But it's not a slur in a language we aren't speaking right now so I should get to say it!!!"
How about you just stop having a piss fit you spoiled little fuck? Not once in your 'analysis' are you bothering to do the literally only valuable piece of thought work: actually measuring the cost/benefit of having a strong deterrence to bigotry vs "I can think of a word that has a slur as part of it but can still be easily understood by people reading it through context clues"
When a piece of shit only weighs the cost of doing things to protect vulnerable minorities and not the benefit to those people, it's pretty fucking easy to suss out their beliefs on the issue in general.
I think maybe you need to take some deep breaths.
I'm not upset even though this entire conversation is about me having a fit about not being allowed to say slurs
You are upset because you're making fun of me for it and explaining why it's bad
I am a nazi from 4chan
...what?
You realize it's a normal word in French right?
Why do you think you're making a valid point? It's an english slur filter for an english forum. You just want to say slurs and feel clever for finding a loophole.
Ah, I forgot, your first language is the only one that matters, my b
Who says english is my first language? Lord knows I get enough trolls criticizing my english by way of accusing me of being a secret jew.
The point, you fucking moron arguing in overt bad faith, is that the default language of the forum is English and so is the slur filter.
Of course repeating myself to a fucking moron is a waste of time, isn't it?
I really do feel bad about the horrible conditions that you find yourself living under; not being able to use the n word. :(
You're acting rude.
Je suis en retard
Did you know that Norway, Sweden, and Denmark all have laws against hate speech, harassment, and discriminatory expressions targeting protected groups. For instance, Norwegian law prohibits public statements that threaten or insult someone, or promote hatred based on factors like ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. At the same time they consistently top indices like the Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom index. I'm not saying that your comment is threatening or anything, but it doesn't seem very important to me to protect the right of someone to use a crude derogatory like "tankie" (a word with parallels to terms like "pinko" and "judeo Bolshevik").
Even the US has protected classes even if the list is woefully short.
I doubt tankies are a protected class in nordic states since they are like nazis and other groups that fetishize violent oppression. Tankie doesn't parallel with pinko becsuse one is about violent oppression and the other is about the left side of the political spectrum.
In reality, the pervasiveness of derogatories like that limit free speech. Of course, this goes the same for calling everyone one disagrees with a lib or fascist as well.
Permitting hate speech limits free speech by making the space unsafe for marginalized voices.
What are you saying that causes people to call you a liberal or a fascist?
Thank you, that's true but doesn't catch the nuance of my argument. It doesn't need to be hate speech to have a chilling effect on public debate. Name-calling instead of actual political discourse, for instance.
I've been called many things but liberal or fascist are seldom among them. I do observe comrades who use those terms very lightly and in uncomeradely fashion though.
They're not anarchists tho. Don't associate anarchism with .ml bullshit
Of course, because there is no true anarchist.
What do the call a fallacy where you find an imaginary fallacy in someone else's argument to sound smarter?
Is it a fallacy? I frequently run into self-styled anarchists who describe other self-styled anarchists as "not real anarchists".
.ml people don't even describe themselves as anarchists, from what I've seen. And those that do, often hide behind that label in bad faith
not like someone describing themselves as an anarchist while flying a ukraine flag lol
Ah, here are the aforementioned .ml people. I wonder, do you specifically search out mentions of you in other instances to engage in conversations with people who don't like you?
This post has 200 comments in 12 hours. How do you think I found it, genius?
I think they generally try to keep themselves in their echo chambers, but as they're federated, can't sometimes help themselves and have to input some would-be-snarky comment they think is ever-so-clever. Then they get ratio'd hard, they get their bot-armies to vote on when they're off instance (if you look you'll see quite a lot of the time there might be a lot of downvotes for opinions against them, but always at most one or two more than how many upvotes it has. it means for mobile users the comment looks less reactive than it is).
Then their egos get hurt because we bitch slap reality in their faces and they go crying back to whatever grad they crawled out from.
Nation-states and anarchism don't technically clash insofar that you could have a nation that's ruled by anarchy.
Just like you Russians are ruled by autocracy. (That's a pro-Russian account.)
Baby brain never cracked a book in his life but everyone stop what you're doing he's going to explain ideologies to you but not before he outs a secret jew for speaking out against the fatherland
It's funny because you're willing to say the most abstract bullshit imaginable, and you could simply lie and pretend to be on the side of Ukraine, but that would leave a trail online.
And you know that's not good, because you walk by windows every day.
Enjoying the constant fear of your police state?
I know repetition won't change your garage output, but I again would like to remind you that I care more for the average Russian than the sicko fuck you worship who rules Russia.
Hey look a liberal being homophobic but it's okay because they're only explicitly using it as an insult for bad people. Must be a day that ends in y.
Your rhetoric is downright pathetic. The avoidance, ridiculous.
Nothing homophobic it about it. Queen is slaying in that portrait.
I heard Putler doesn't fancy it though. Wonder why?
Nothing to do with this, ofc.
You simply do not have the courage to answer that you're not pro-Russian. So by default you support crimes against humanity. A coward who doesn't stand up to what is right.
So there's nothing homophobic about using 'gay' as a generic insult.
A (false) fallacy fallacy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
But they don't even pretend to be anarchists, they're Marxist-Leninists, hence the ml
If "they dont even pretend to be anarchists", then why would the comment
be necessary in the first place?
If you look at the comment above that one, you might be able to figure it out
The comment above demonstrates that non-ml members perceive ml members as claiming anarchy among their values. If that impression exists, there must be a reason for it - which is that ml members do in fact claim to be anarchists.
Therefore, in the context of this thread, it is valid to point out the existence of self-styled anarchists claiming that other self-styled anarchists are "not real anarchists". The existence of this thread demonstrates the truth of the statement, regardless of whether you personally like the conclusion or not.
Please don't try to make a logical argument when you can't get this right. The comment above only demonstrates that at least one non-.ml user perceives .ml users as being self-proclaimed anarchists. There must be a reason for that, and that reason does not have to be that .ml users are self-proclaimed anarchists. It could be that this commenter is simply misinterpreting the views of .ml users.
You didn't even get the fallacy right. Rockerface didn't modify their statement at all. All they said was that the users of .ml instances aren't anarchists. You never provided any examples of anarchist .ml users, and they never modified their initial claim to protect it from a falsifying example.
I was in an argument with some .ml tankie yesterday, and they had the gall to say that "free speech that doesn't threaten the government is tolerated everywhere," in response to a comment saying that the CCP censors speech. They didn't like my assertion that that statement also applies to Nineteen Eighty-Four's Ingsoc party. It's technically true, that free speech that doesn't threaten the government is tolerated in Oceania. It's just that the government considers any dissent threatening.
My last straw was when I made a meme on their meme instance that had no Asians, anyone related to Asia, or racism in it. And they removed the post with 500+ up votes and a healthy discussion, because my title was "Rice."
They literally told me rice, the word by itself, is racist. I just chose a random word for the title to fill the blank.
You didn’t choose a random word. It’s obvious why you chose that specific word in reference to gaming hardware. And we know the racist roots of the term.
What were the normal words that people found so offensive?