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?

  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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    15 days ago

    Hexbear removes any questions or opinions they don’t agree with. They heavily censor the discussion and consider it a feature of their community.

    Other Lemmy servers allow a diversity of thought and opinion. They allow people to question and disagree.

    It’s not about sides of the story, it’s the difference between free discussion of individuals versus a standardized party line that cannot be questioned. The former tends to expose the truth, while the latter tends to obfuscate the truth.

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      15 days ago

      Lemmy.world doesn’t allow any opinions from Hexbear, they defederated from them. That is more censorship, though less obvious because you don’t see the comments getting removed. Even then, comments still get removed for going against the “party line” as well, usually comments critiquing the Democrats.

      What’s more correct is that Hexbear is more open and up front with its bias, while instances like Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works try to pretend that they don’t hold bias.

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        14 days ago

        Bias you say? ROFL!

        If you said this exact same thing in a community hosted on Hexbear or .ml, about Hexbear or .ml, it would be deleted, and you would be banned- 1st offense.

        Don’t believe me? Check the mod logs. The admins there have banned people for far less.

        The fact that your comment is allowed and you’re free to express it already belies your entire argument