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Have encountered racism, hate speech or homophobia on the fediverse yet? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If so, do you consistently report it and get the feeling that it gets dealt with? Of course there are instances dedicated solely to being human trash

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost certainly, as you say, only way to control it is report it wherever you see it. Don't let it spread.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I try to wake up each day and not be offended by everything. This way I don't see a racist/bigot behind every tree.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

this honestly. There's a huge difference between "waaah this person disagreed with me!!" and someone actually being fucking rude and hateful. People who are progressive in their politics tend to conflate them for whatever reason.

Like, yeah, no one likes when someone is going around shouting slurs at people and generally just saying blatantly hateful shit (death threats, slurs, etc style content). But so many people end up crying that "oh you're pro-life therefore you're a sexist and misogynist and pushing hate speech you bigot!" like wtf?

I get this a lot as someone who is transsexual. I'll merely talk about my transsexualism, explain the science and biology behind my condition, and then suddenly I'm a "hateful transphobic bigot" because I had the audacity to agree with the scientific literature rather than some random person's political beliefs. Like no, I'm not being hateful towards you simply by talking about my medical condition and the science around that. What's happening is that you're disagreeing with me.

Whenever people place huge emphasis on "combatting hate speech" unfortunately it's always this "disagreeing with me is hate speech" shit, and not actually dealing with hateful content.

Saying shit like "if you're a gay man who doesn't want to fuck someone with a vagina, you're a bigot and you're choosing to be like that" is blatantly homophobic and hateful (my phrasing here is nicer than some I've seen), yet it gets praised and rewarded and declared "not hate speech" because it happens to align politically with those constantly crying about "hate speech".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh I'm not saying about being offended by everything. There's a difference between disagreeing with someone's PoV, or even them saying something disagreeable without malice, vs. Someone being a plain old hateful bigot.

Like my Mum will say things that aren't necessarily PC, but I know she doesn't mean anything hateful by it. I wouldn't even think of reporting anything of that nature.

But someone disseminating hateful ideologies or being bigoted towards other people, then you need to shut that down.