We’re closing this thread. Everything that could be said has been said. Thank you
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Today, we want to inform everyone that we have decided to defederate from https://exploding-heads.com/. We understand that defederating should always be a last resort, and individuals can certainly block communities. However, blocking alone does not prevent potential harm to vulnerable communities.
After carefully reviewing the instance, reported posts, and multiple comments from the community, we have concluded that exploding-heads is not adhering to the Lemmy or Citizen Code of Conduct. Therefore, we cannot, in good faith, continue to federate with an instance that consistently promotes hate, racism, and bullying.
Examples:
https://lemmy.world/post/577526 - Community Moderator Harassment
https://exploding-heads.com/post/92194 - Systemadmin Post
https://exploding-heads.com/post/90780 - Systemadmin Post
https://exploding-heads.com/post/91488 - Systemadmin Post
https://exploding-heads.com/post/93725 - Community Moderator Post
Again, deciding to defederate from an instance is not taken lightly. In the future, we will continue to review instances on a case-by-case bases.
As for our community, please refrain from posting or commenting with hateful words as well. Arguing back and calling people names is not the solution. The best course of action is to report the posts or comments violating our server rules.
Lemmy Code of Conduct
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
Citizen Code of Conduct https://github.com/stumpsyn/policies/blob/master/citizen_code_of_conduct.md
“We are committed to providing a friendly, safe, and welcoming environment for all, regardless of level of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other similar characteristic.”
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“You cannot forbid people to think in a way that does not correlate with your ideas.”
Typical attempt to misrepresent the actual topic at hand.
Yes, you can’t police what people think. But you absolutely can (and should) impose consequences when people express what they think in such a way that demonstrates that they’re garbage.
For the umpteenth time: freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. If you want to say hateful and offensive things, then expect people to not want to hear anything you say.
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Yeah, because the correct approach to racists (and very telling how you lump all conservatives into a single category of people that would be blocked for saying hateful and offensive things; believe it or not, not all conservatives are garbage people) is to engage with them and listen to their arguments rationally. They’ve done such a great job of demonstrating how they’re receptive to the idea that racism is bad. /s
The idea that we should tolerate intolerance because that way we can convince them to be better people is naive at best, but actively disingenuous seems much more likely.
No, racism is simply tribal behavior gone wrong, and racism IS discrimination, it’s just one form of it.
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I don’t think minorities see it that way.
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I’m guessing you are white, as am I btw, and we wouldn’t just be considered a minority, we would actually belong to a minority in those places.
So in those places, protection of minorities would actually protect us against discrimination.
But generally whites in those areas are richer than average, and if you are rich, you don’t need as much protection against racism.
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Most rich jews fled to other countries, that was much harder if you were poor.
Also the persecution of Jews in Germany, was a very special case, with 500 years of history.
I didn’t say you would never need protection if you are rich, but you stand a way better chance against discrimination if you are.
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