Defederate Now
Defederate Now
These bigoted, ignorant scum will never listen to anything. They are politically illiterate infants with an allergic reaction to reading.
They have ruined a safe space cultivated and cared for, they have turned this place into a new reddit.
I had a dude in my private messages going on about how I was both mutilating myself and other children. Many more people on hexbear have had similar experiences, with these worthless ignorant scum popping in to deliver the political equivalent of a giant shit.
As your friends, comrades, and people you say you defend get slurred at, dehumanized, and harassed please ask yourself:
Is it worth it?
I have the answer, I know you know it as well:
No its not
I used to think otherwise
I was a fool
its not worth a few laughs
even if you dunk all you want, that doesn't take away the knife those people put in our backs.
These bigots, fascists, and NATO liberals are as worthless offline as they are here, why should we give them any attention. They are worth less than the dirt beneath our fingernails. Why should we poison ourselves with their influence? We don't make any room for them offline, why should we not online?
And really
How many essays have your written?
How many sources have you combed through?
How many times have you explained the most basic facts of reality?
How many attempts at good faith?
Only for them to dismiss it in their stupidity. They don't read it, they just crumble and divert back to the programming these little shits trust in more than God.
For every time there is a good faith user, there are a dozen scumbag fascists. And most of the time, the "good faith one" just reverts back to their old shit.
Do you really think losing any member of the hexbear or lemmygrad community, longtime members or not, is worth a few good dunks?
I don't believe a small chance of gaining a new user is worth alienating an entire section of the community. The vast majority of those idiots are lost causes. If they are interested, the can just make an account and ask in good faith.
Is posting a meme to "own the liberals" worth your comrades getting more trauma from bigots harassing them?
No its not.
you've had your laugh, but it should end
Ban them all, SJW, lemm.ee, lemmy, the programmer nazi edglords. Keep Lemmygrad.
Defederate from those communities. We shouldn't sacrifice our own for more clicks. For having to subject ourselves to the opinions of people thoroughly brainwashed? We aren't reddit. We came here to get away from that. I'm sick of this. We are sick of this.
End it now
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Well yeah, they're liberals. Bloodthirsty bigots that are convinced they're the opposite due to cultural hegemony.
Also cowards.
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Basically all economically oppressed groups, just out of refusal to acknowledge that the system causes that oppression and not some nebulous innate traits.
The left liberals acknowledge the system is causing it, but claim that the system is the best system and that it only needs reforms (which either are dead on arrival or don't actually fix the structural problem, see police sensitivity training)
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Understanding that liberal = capitalism supporter, liberals are bigoted towards most marginalized groups, whether it's the overt fashy kind of bigotry or the more subtle "acceptable" bigotry. Some common modem examples:
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Dehumanization of the homeless.
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Continued anti-black rhetoric and support for structurally racist systems using rhetoric that would fit right in at a 50s rotary club.
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Rampant transphobia.
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Orienralism
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Democrats, including socdems also do all of the above, they just strive to make it "acceptable" first.
They aren't really accepting. They are literally in control of all the relevant systems responsible for the items listed and sit on the side of conservatism and reaction.
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They are the chief purveyors of treating the "homeless problem" like a disease or infestation, they support and employ the cops that steal homeless people's shit and frame their existence entirely through the perceived threat they pose to the owners of real estate and businesses.
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They run every major city, and ran them during BLM, standing as a force of reaction to it. Their response waa bad faith argumentation against criticisms of racialized policing, material support for the police themselves, lying about the protests, and now they are using the defunding they never did as a way of lobbying for more cash for cops. 1/4 Democrats are against marriage between races. And, as capitalism supporters, they are all eventually forced to confront the contradiction of a supposedly anti-racist society, black poverty and marginalization, and the myth of the meritocracy. In my experience, their conclusion is racist.
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Libs are transphobic by a vast majority. It's not even close. We are at the 90s homophobic joke period of the liberal cultural understanding of trans issues. In addition, poverty and marginalization are the primary material issues faced by trans people and liberals fight in favor of both when push comes to shove: privatised healthcare, lower wages, doing what the chamber of commerce wants, keeping housing private and speculative, keeping trans kids in unsafe environments, and doing fuck all against ongoing genocidal campaigns. Liberals also tend to understand supporting trans people by sexualizing them.
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Liberals are the most orientalist people on the planet. Nearly every criticism of China or Russia is steeped in some trope, like the dehumanized masses "flooding" somewhere (the Asiatic Hordes) or the agencyless drone populous that just does whatever they're told.
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Republican party types are generally a lot worse about those things, of course, but Democratic Party types, especially the centrist ones but also many progressives, have all those problems.
Again, the list is a lot longer and more severe for Republicans. But what Maoo is describing is how the broad non-socialist left types (and admittedly some smaller number of socialists) tend to really dehumanize homeless people, uphold anti-blackness, support transphobia, and get into racist orientalist shit, but they tend to do it in a civil-sounding way, so everyone knows that they aren't like the Republicans, essentially. They'll performatively come off as inclusive while they're voting for cops to bulldoze a homeless encampment full of black trans women. That's why we have emojis like
I will say that U.S. liberals aren't as bad as U.K. liberals on trans issues, but that is a mighty low bar. And they by definition uphold the systems that keep trans people down, so,
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I would assume they're speaking of cultural hegemony in reference to Gramsci. Heres a quick article, though I dunno if its good https://www.thoughtco.com/cultural-hegemony-3026121
Yup
hegemony is the holding of cultural/institutional dominance. The us/them comes from those in power & privilege projecting their ideals onto us
Edit: not an academic, probably wrong