eta_aquarid

the marketplace of ideas means fuck all when it comes to people telling you that you shouldn’t be allowed to exist

tell me that you’re a white middle class guy who’s never faced marginization without teling me that you’re a white middle class guy who’s never faced marginalization

holy shit, how do I even begin to explain that you can’t just “ignore” Nazis and racists and transphobes and letting them keep their platform

you do understand that they hurt real fucking people, right???

didn’t know “some people shouldn’t have rights or the right to exist” is just an opinion

whatever, clown

Not really a fan of putting on shades so I don’t have to see the nazis in the nazi bar

just kick the nazis out

you’re leftist but aren’t considering the paradox of tolerance?

like, why? What is the reason you’re not supporting defederation?

fucking wild to hear Beehaw being of a “fringe extreme ideology” for…

…deciding to defederate with really huge communities with lax registration requirements because they were overworked and didn’t have good enough mod tools (because the platform doesn’t) to deal with it?

Even saying that they’d consider refederating once those issues were solved?

In what world is this extreme, and in what world is this “the opposite of an instance that is amenable to right-wing people”? Like how could you even logically think that?

The example that introduced me to federation was like an instance getting overrun with Nazis, and everyone deciding to just cut that instance loose; let it float alone as “the Nazi instance” that nobody has to interact with.

I thought that stuff like bad actors and assholes was one of the main reasons for the idea of federation, really surprised how many people thought differently

“Defederating for political reasons” is like a completely normal reason to do so. Like, why the hell should we tolerate alt-right shitheads here?

If you think this is “just political drama”, count yourself lucky to not be affected by the alt-right