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I Don't Like Biden Either,

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Ah, this is "a lesson about how to exclude white people (still the majority of the country) from any social justice movement." Characterize and belittle any of them who try to engage and support a cause.
If they can't relate and want to have a conversation about it but challenge some of the ideas then they're the baddies. If they don't just repeat the movement's slogans without thought then clearly they should be excluded. This honestly feels like a right wing subversion tactic.
Yes, I know there are people like the post. People who love to argue and do it for the fun of arguing. Those people do cause trouble if you're trying to get a consensus or get something done.... But just like "welfare , queens" or criminal illegal immigrants, they feel like the minority where this is intending to paint a large group of people with the same brush.
It's usually not good to make fun of people who are trying to help, or you teach people to shut down and not engage with your cause. If the statement is you have to have experienced or you can't relate, then why bother having a movement because you're not trying to convince anybody who isn't already on your side.
- The country of lemmy.world?
- It’s funny to me comments are distracting with the white guy while dismissing the liberal hypocrisy he imbues.
  
  maybe because the first sentence is “i’m a white man”
  
  It's because Lemmy had an influx of new conservative sign ups.
  
  Why would conservatives choose Lemmy over Reddit? Genuinely. Lemmy is the explicitly leftist answer to Reddit, at least in intention.
  
  I came here because reddit ruined my app by trying to make me pay monthly for it. But really that was just the last straw. I'd been wanting to find an alternative for ages, ever since they allowed mods to use bots for banning you based on participation in subs they didn't like. Default subs run by power mods fully embraced censorship and shut down discussion of things they decided were verboten even if they happened on other subs. It was a takeover of Reddit. A takeover of the kind of things allowed to be discussed on Reddit, the kind of people allowed to discuss on Reddit. It didn't matter which side of the discussion you were even on. The rules were simple to get your ban lifted. Repent and never visit that subreddit again.
  Over time the list of subreddits on the auto ban list grew and number of subs using the auto ban to grew. Reddit did nothing.
  Reddit is anti free speech. Reddit became an aggregator of memes and posts with very specific political ideology and nothing else was allowed.
  
  Not all conservatives are Republicans and Trump supporters. Joe Manchin, Liz Cheney, Joe Lieberman, etc. Many Democrats have conservative leanings.
  
  Yes, and my point still stands. Lemmy is explicitly modeled in leftist fashion, not liberal or fascist, or any other conservative ideology.
  It's just interesting, that's all. Choosing Lemmy isn't an accident, it's a fringe community formed due to the failures of Reddit. Choosing Lemmy over Reddit is an inherently political choice.

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