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You’ve actually found right leaning people on Lemmie? I thought they were either shoved out, bullied out or pushed out or just given up and left and went somewhere else.
More of a white-supremist/anti-LGBTQ/pro-Israel mashup.
But left-leaning, so they got that going for them.
Left-leaning by what definition?
I'm not saying that as a challenge, I'm legitimately curious what interpretation of 'left' tolerates those ideas. Even a bigot with economically social ideas (like a Strassertite) is typically considered 'right-wing'.
Seemed to hate the current administration, and usa policies, but then they were German so who knows.
That’s, uh, not really left leaning… is it?
That's not something we should be trying for though. Wouldn't you be mad if suddenly conservatives came on and said that same thing about left-leaning people?!
nazis are not welcome here.
Good thing I'm not a nazi then.
Hope you're doing your part to make nazis feel unwelcome.
I don't know any nazis, but I've never condoned nor would I ever condone them. Are you around a bunch of nazis? Where do you live?!
Sure. Let's go with that.
Not anymore. I left reddit. I don't want lemmy becoming like reddit.
Good for you! I haven't come across any Nazis here yet. Thanks for the warning.
It's less about whether I'd feel mad, and more about how that materially affects our community. Left-leaning people are trying to make communities which allow all peoples (but not all ideas, like exterminating races and objectifying sexes), while plenty of conservatives (I don't think the word 'conservative' truly applies, but many identify as conservative) are trying to exclude peoples they consider undesirables. If you wanted, you can walk into an anarcho-communist or M-L organization and, as long as you don't offend them with any provoking symbols or offensive ideas, be welcomed. Not everyone can do the same in a reactionary community. So I don't think it's fair to equivocate anti-rightism with anti-leftism. (and, as a side note, if we want to talk about the rare ultra-liberalist ('Libertarian') free-speech everyone-welcome scenario, Lemmy already went through that with Wolfballs a few years back - their admin shut it down when they eventually realized they'd created a Nazi bar and that the WNs weren't just being dumb and offensive as a joke.)
Furthermore, in the context of Lemmy overall, it was created by communists who were leaving reddit to avoid what you described:
Which is exactly what you and Lemmy are doing by saying conservatives are not welcome here. They are un-desired..ala undesirable. Can't you see the irony of what you are saying?!
Take what you wrote and switch the words around. Change all the liberal words to Repubiclan. Then stand back and read it. Def sounds EXACTLY like how you all assume republicans talk and exclude.
Well, yes. It's why conservatives recruit incels.
So there are no liberal incels?!
Looks like I touched a nerve.
You haven't touched a nerve at all. I simply replied to your question. Is replying to a question or comment "touching a nerve"?!
If you say so.
Correct, I do say so. Looks like I touched a nerve with my reply to you. We cool?
Would never say it’s something we should be trying for.
I meant Lemmy as a whole. And I agree with you that we shouldn't be trying for that. I personally have been bullied and there have been plenty of attempts to push me out--all because I post links to news articles that have conservative points of view. Even when it's AP News, I get bullied. lol
Did not everyone immediately agree with you and applaud?
Poor thing.
I have never expected people to immediately agree with me or applaud. But diversity of opinion and thought is supposed the be the cornerstone of Democratic values. But it's not. Not at all. I have seen more bullying and hate in the name of Democratic values here on Lemmy than anywhere else in my entire life. LMAO