If so, do you consistently report it and get the feeling that it gets dealt with? Of course there are instances dedicated solely to being human trash

  • Kantiberl
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    01 year ago

    I disagree wholeheartedly. Regardless of what it’s called, I don’t think censorship is the answer. If they become aggressive then you can block them, your beliefs should not define everyone else’s experience. Truth and realness bubble to the top if you let it. We have downvotes and upvotes for that. Forcing people through your rigid idea of utopia just leads to larger and larger groups of people you have deemed unacceptable and separate, and therefore easy to become enemies with. I don’t want insular echo chambers. I want to think and feel and be human and grow. You don’t grow if you aren’t challenged.

    • effingjoe
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      01 year ago

      Bigotry isn’t just academic-- it can have real-life effects on the people it is aimed towards, regardless of how many fake internet points it has or does not have.

      • Oteron
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        01 year ago

        The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Bigotry as “obstinate or intolerant devotion to one’s own opinions and prejudices : the state of mind of a bigot”. How is the firm belief that someone is wrong and should be censored based on… just one’s own opinions and prejudices not bigotry then?

        Another thing that bothers me is how Marxist, Stalinist, and Maoist communities are considered absolutely fine but opposing ideologies are automatically considered bigoted. Why is that?

        This reply is not meant as an attack. I’m all for expression and freedom of speech and am genuinely curious, who decides what is punishable bigotry and what is not.

        • effingjoe
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          01 year ago

          Did you really just “people against bigotry are the real bigots” me? Haha

          • Oteron
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            11 year ago

            Did you just paraphrase me wrongly to make fun of me and invalidate my point?

            • effingjoe
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              01 year ago

              How is the firm belief that someone is wrong and should be censored based on… just one’s own opinions and prejudices not bigotry then?

              No.

                • effingjoe
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                  01 year ago

                  How what? “No” I didn’t paraphrase you wrongly. You really are saying that being against bigotry is bigotry. A sophomoric stance often used to argue that all bigotry should be allowed.

                  I can only imagine why someone would want more bigotry on any given site.

                  • Oteron
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                    01 year ago

                    You did paraphrase me wrongly as I’ve said none of those things.

                    I asked a question. You put words into my mouth and painted me as a villain.

                    If anything, you are being completely dishonest and malicious and this conversation is going nowhere.