I’ve had constant issues with people on Lemmy being casually racist. Down voting attempts to ask others to rethink using slurs that harm people, being called thin skinned for having issues with racist content.

There’s a lot of that in this thread.

However after posting a thread to “A Boring Dystopia” and attempting to do more than simply calling for the deaths of anyone who joins ICE and explain the reasoning for that, I saw a blatantly racist post and called it out.

The result was /u/givesomefucks banning me permanently for the community, while doing and saying nothing about the racist post. For the crime of calling out racism, I was banned for… racism. And “slap fights” for logically trying to understand an issue and trying to avoid insulting others.

Lemmy has somehow evolved into an echo chamber so unwelcoming of any words that don’t match the scripted seminar so many people here seem to be quoting from that it pushes away liberal leftist educated black people.

So many people here seem to be simply looking for others they can call out as bigots or nazis or evil that they do it without thought to people who actually support all the same things that they do. It’s unhealthy and exhausting.

I don’t have the time or energy to spend on a place that actively seems to support casual racism while simultaneously trying to call people bigots for understanding the importance of tolerance in society.

Feel free to down vote. Make sure to switch to your alts. That’s what sane, rational people do when they encounter words and thoughts they don’t like.

Oh… no. Wait. That’s what an actual bigot does. Someone who’s completely intolerant of ideas and opinions other than the ones they like.

I guess that’s the actual crux of it. I’m exhausted by the insane level of bigotry from people who see themselves as righteously hunting down bigots. It’s ironic in the stupidest possible way.