this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2022
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If I understand your story right, we should proactively ban people because their friends might violate rules in the future? It sounds similar to the story of Minority Report, but that was supposed to be a dystopia, not an inspiration to implement irl.
They're the wolfballs admin, what's not to get? Don't be a lib.
So you ran out of arguments and try to insult me instead?
I don't need to argue anything. Fuck fascists. If you're an ML like you've stated in the past, you know why and don't need me to explain to you why fascism is unacceptable and how they leverage liberal discourse to gain footing.
If you enable fascists to speak then what do you even stand for?
I don't claim to be unbiased. I don't claim to be fair. Because being unbiased and fair is for people who don't have to worry about their own survival. LGBT people have already learned this lesson when we've been hunted down in the past. You gotta nip this shit in the bud before it takes root.
If you make this place a safe haven for these people, then it's not safe for me or people like me, and I will treat it like radioactive waste.
You are proposing to change lemmy.ml rules so that users can be banned for activity on other sites. Your only argument for this rule change seems to be the claim that wolfballs.com is fascist. You havent shown any evidence to support this claim, and its far from obvious when browsing the site. So I dont see any justification for such a rule change.
You keep ignoring that he is on here every time someone is about to get banned for bigotry offering a safe space on wolfballs. You let the comment section of your Leftist website be a recruiting grounds for racists and homophobes. And you keep saying "can't police his activity on another site," but like....how is posting links and promoting a bigoted website not a violation of lemmy.ml's rules?
I also recommend wolfballs to people who wont fit in here. I think thats better than having them go back to Reddit, or trying to troll us.
Please send them back to reddit
With all due respect for your work on this platform. Please do not recommend wolfballs to anyone.
they deserve to starve on reddit
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With that
Bullshit
So now you say that Masterofballs should be banned because of things that other people say on his instance, and because of posting memes?
How can you possibly look at that site and argue that you don't "see fascism." And if you'd like, I can show you all the horrible shit masterofballs personally posts.
You don't think wolfballs is fascist. You don't just ban bigots outright, you in fact recommend to them a website where they can get their views affirmed and radicalize farther.
Earlier on you said "leftist" is too vague but you don't know how else to describe lemmy, but this behaviour makes it abundantly clear that you should describe it as liberal.
@Awoo@lemmy.ml can you please explain to this man what a wrecker is? He's either being naive or is cryptofash himself and I'm running out of patience.
-posts racism
-But what about his free speech?
For fucking racism, yes. Its better than what they deserve to be honest: a gun to the head.
This is exactly why non-MLs look at half the commies and shake their heads. If all you scream is "fascist" and literally refuse to explain, then all we gather is "They call people they don't like fascists". Then commies get mad the rest of us "can't see" the proper way.
How does this not counter your first point? If you don't practice what you believe in when it actually matters, you don't have beliefs, you have hobbies.
Edit: This thread has gone on for many comments. Read them for a laugh. Basically they never proved the original guy is racist, only got increasingly frustrated. Which is honestly surprising, since I believe the guy is probably a racist PoS, but all I asked for was proof of it.
I have literally linked to where the guy is being racist and seanchai has quoted his homophobic and transphobic remarks. It's plain as day. I'm calling this shit out because it makes me feel unsafe to be here as a queer person.
Also, how do you not know what a dogwhistle is?
It's counterproductive to conflate racism, homophobia and transphobia with fascism.
They're all disgusting behaviors. Make no mistake, they're all mindless, anti-social, and dangerous. However lumping them into the term fascism trivializes what makes fascism in particular dangerous or appealing to its audience, it falsely suggests that fascism without those traits, a national fascism rather than a racial fascism (which is indeed what some fascists propose) isn't reprehensible, and makes people who have seen a defintion of fascism think it's just an ignorant slur just like calling any queer person a liberal, which will make people just not listen.
You don't have to be one to be the other. They're all horrible. Don't pretend their problem is being a fascist; their problem is being a racist anti-queer idiot.
If it looks like a duck, eats like a duck, quacks like a duck, builds an ideological pipeline like a duck...