If so, was it polled somewhere?

  • @[email protected]
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    411 year ago

    Rowdy and very active left-leaning instance which recently rejoined the rest of lemmy. They tend to be very vocal in calling out racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry, which has made certain users very angry. On the other hand, some of them seem to be very tolerant of certain authoritarian countries, which makes a certain other group of users very uncomfortable.

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      201 year ago

      Left leaning? Every post I saw from them before finally filtering the instance was heavily right leaning and filled with everything you just claimed they are against.

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        The left right thing sometimes feel more like a circle and if center was at one end of the circle then tankies and the alt-right would be at the other end pretty to close to one another. They both want to own the people that are closer to center, they both have a love affair with Russia, they both deny genocides, they both believe in authoritarianism…

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          111 year ago

          they both have a love affair with Russia

          Yes, it’s Kremlin/CCP propaganda. Both use social media to divide democracies. Divide and conquer on social media.

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          Yup, horseshoe theory. At a certain point, it’s hard to tell authoritarians apart. I.e. why do you hate LGBT folks?

          • Stalin - they’re non-conformist, so to the Gulag with with!
          • Hitler - the people don’t like them, so we can blame them for our problems

          Different justifications, same net result. So on LGBT issues, I can’t tell Stalin and Hitler apart. The same goes for a surprising number of other policies.

      • Throwaway
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        71 year ago

        Left wing as in socially and econimically. Not sure what you mean by right wing.

        They’re communists, are very trans friendly, and deny genocide.

        • @[email protected]
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          121 year ago

          they’re communists

          No they’re not. They’re damaging to socialist causes if anything.

          • Throwaway
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            51 year ago

            Communists are often damaging to socialist causes.

          • Keith
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            91 year ago

            They consider liberals too right wing, that’s why they want to own them iirc

            • @[email protected]
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              61 year ago

              This is correct. They’re way too the left of US liberals and are generally sick of the domination US liberals have in US politics. (The same can be said of the UK.)

              FWIW i’m mostly with them on this. I’m an anarchist and also far left, though i didn’t join their instance when i came to lemmy (obviously).

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              -21 year ago

              Bros unironically don’t think liberals are right wing. What do you think they’ll have to say? Right wing is when you shout “Death to Israel?”

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                Lol what are you even trying to say? The incoherence is funny considering you’re from a literature instance

                  • @[email protected]
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                    41 year ago

                    Bros unironically don’t think liberals are right wing.

                    Who is “bros”? If it’s hexbear, im pretty sure hexbear does consider liberals right wing

                    Right wing is when you shout “Death to Israel?”

                    Opposing a genocidal ethnostate is right wing?

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        01 year ago

        Are you kidding? They unironically are fans of Stalin and other left wing ideologues. I have never seen a hexbear user who was anything but left wing.

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      101 year ago

      They tend to be very vocal in calling out racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry

      To me it seems more like creative interpretation of everything as those things if it doesn’t fit with their groupthink. It’s not “calling out” if they’re abusing it as a general purpose weapon, that’s just bullying.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        But bigots should be bullied until they shut up. No one has a right to treat others as subhuman. I often see casual bigotry on lemmy and other forums, and this is probably the first time I’m seeing such an active resistance. Hexbears are definitely blind to bad things when they are done by certain people, but they are 100% right in pointing out bad things done by everyone else.

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          31 year ago

          But bigots should be bullied until they shut up

          That’s not what I was talking about though. From what I’ve seen it seems like the average hexbear user’s definition of a bigot is everyone who disagrees with them. So this isn’t about bullying bigots, it’s about using the concept of a bigot as an excuse for bullying.

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      81 year ago

      They tend to be very vocal in calling out racism, sexism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry

      Yes, they’re CCP LLMs and useful idiots emphasizing social tension in democratic countries in order to cause instability.

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        -131 year ago

        If you think calling out racism, sexism or homophobia is ‘emphasizing social tension in democratic countries’, then you should take a long, hard look at what sort of person you are. And who cares who they are; they are doing good work making bigots shuts up.

        • @[email protected]
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          181 year ago

          Do you actually think that’s what I was saying?

          I completely support calling those thing out in an unbiased and constructive way. Hexbear does neither, it’s intent is to create division, there is no shared vision of harmony.

          • @[email protected]
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            -11 year ago

            I can only read what you write. If you meant that Hexbears are being selective in what they call out, fair. Sorry I misunderstood you.

      • ferret
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        311 year ago

        China, mostly. But some of them do shill for russia too.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              Doesn’t help that leftist intellectuals don’t do their damn research and blame NATO for the Ukraine war. Popular intellectuals really sound dumb the second they step out of field. Like Richard Dawkins not understanding transgender people and trying to frame it as “just asking question.”

          • @[email protected]
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            91 year ago

            China is a “successful” example of a “communist” state and for young people attracted to communism that’s kinda all they’ve got. Not a good approach imo, China fucking sucks.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              Eh, Cuba is a decent example, but they never seem to talk about it too much. China is absolutely not communist by any means. They can call it anything they want, but they have the 2nd most amount of billionaires in the world right behind the US. They are capitalist at this point with a few communist policies sprinkled in their government processes.

          • mycorrhiza they/them
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            -31 year ago

            Why are you asking these people about hexbear’s positions, reasoning, and motivations, instead of asking hexbear?