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People who think Lemmy is too political and refuse to join is good. (beehaw.org)
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Look at here and the people who complain about it being too hard to figure out are the ones complaining about "I can't use muh slurs, this is awful."

"The left of today is very much in favour of censorship to avoid “harm.” This makes those of us in the middle very wary of signing up to any partisan media." /u/decidedlysticky23

/u/misshapensteed claims he isn't far right, but explictly only posts on PoliticalCompassMemes and TheLeftCantMeme and KotakuInAction.

If they are too stupid to figure out we know they're lying, they're too stupid to figure out lemmy.

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[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the answer is the words we use, which are incredibly myopic, literally two-dimensional with LEFT and RIGHT.

This reduction to the binary is exhausting, and probably forces people to think in bad faith. It is all bad faith. The middle ground is meaningless. Bigots don't like to be called out as bigots, and many people are too afraid to call bigots out.

I think the step forward is to be significantly more precise with our language, avoid the temptation to simplify, and to stop using tired labels that are easily hijacked by bad actors.

[–] Alfred0lin@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Actually, left and right can even be one dimensional. Heh.