I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of ‘hitlerites’

I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?

    • OBJECTION!
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      Transphobia is when you disagree with a liberal about anything, regardless of how much you support and respect trans people, apparently.

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      That’s a bold claim. A quick look at their top communities list (one of the top 15 being explicitly a ‘community for transgender and gender diverse people’) and the first two rules of their CoC make it seem especially trans friendly.

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        one of the top 15 being explicitly a ‘community for transgender and gender diverse people’

        And as we all know if someone says they’re a certain way that makes it so!

        This level of naivete seems to be a requirement for being on .ml

        • If only there was a way to verify their claim so you weren’t forced to take their word for it.

          Look, maybe you’re right. But this was one of the lamest responses to someone bringing receipts that I’ve ever seen.

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          Look, there’s no reason to disbelieve here. If they claim to be trans, and they try to have trans-friendly policies, and keep talking about trans issues, why go this route?

          Is your greater point that they’re pretending to be mostly trans as a way to use their trans-identity as a shield for criticism? If so, criticize that when they do it. The counter-argument to “you can’t criticize me because I’m trans” shouldn’t be “you’re not trans”, it should be “being trans is not a defense”. Ya follow?

          And if the argument is that hexbear want to appear more trans in order to “virtual signal”, then I’d say there’s plenty to criticize about the way they run their instance, we don’t need to try and deny anything good they do.

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              HB tend to be vary campist and do tend to rely on bad faith and hypocrisy a lot, but I don’t have them as act as direct liars.

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          Since you’re bringing up instance stereotypes, I have to say I’m disappointed to see baseless conspiracy claims from a dbzer0 user. dbzer0 is usually decent.

          And as we all know if someone says they’re a certain way that makes it so!

          Are you implying that this active community is somehow just an elaborate hoax? Why?

          • @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Are you implying that this active community is somehow just an elaborate hoax?

            Oh, nice, a lack of reading comprehension as well

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      If you think Hexbear is trans-friendly, then you’re transphobic.

      No, lol.

      Someone complaining about being harassed by transphobic chasers and you said “good”, it’s for allies.

      bruh wtf

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        Leate’s modlog is filled with homophobia and transphobia under the guise of being an ally, this is a pattern and not a one-off.

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          Many such cases tbh, so many of these types are extremely quick to accuse others of ‘faking’ their positions and it’s always projection.

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            100%. Leate in particular has a nasty habit of suicide baiting and blocking anyone who calls them out, DM harrassment, and more. The loudest complainers about Hexbear are overwhelmingly the ones who got banned for bigotry, which they think they can hide by not mentioning that factor.

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              I’ve noticed that in .world spaces that users will bring up suicide unprompted, or call me mentally ill, only to delete their posts before moderation happens

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                Disgusting behavior, sorry to hear that. For some reason these accounts seem to stay up despite being reported constantly.

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                  It is, and thank you. This is why I usually pull up the modlog first whenever I see someone trying to punch left.

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                    Yep, calling out the bigoted left-punchers helps call into question their unsourced claims, and pressures moderators into cleaning up the bigotry. It’s a win-win.

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      This is a very bad take. It is well-documented that Hexbear’s userbase is around 50% trans, and has a well-developed moderation team in order to protect their userbase. Discounting trans people because they disagree with you politically is in fact transphobia.