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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?

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[–] Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I really don't think they are a left-unity instance considering that they get very upset and unpleasant to talk to if you don't support authoritarianism or their alternative "facts."

Like I'm cool with all sorts of different leftist viewpoints and I think it's necessary that we support each other, but I draw the line at authoritarianism and rewriting history.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't really understand what you're getting at here, you're being very vague. I'm a Marxist, I enjoy my time there, I don't really think I can say I share your same views on it.

[–] Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 minutes ago

When the instance I'm on was still federated with hexbear I did go and check them out to see what they had to say and with my own two eyes I saw people there denying the tiananmen square massacre and claiming that North Korea is a free and prosperous nation. Not to mention that when visiting other instances, such as the one I'm on, many would be extremely rude, which is why they got defederated.

[–] Sootius@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Anarchists are explicitly welcome, so authoritarianism is definitely not a requirement. And what "alternative facts"?

[–] Lumelore@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 16 minutes ago

Things like the denial of the tiananmen square massacre or claiming that North Korea is a free and prosperous nation, both of which I have seen with my own two eyes on hexbear.

While I am not an anarchist, generally I am cool with them. Who I am not cool with are Marxist-Leninists, which are authoritarian.

From the wikipedia article on Marxist-Leninists:

In the words of historians Silvio Pons and Robert Service, elections are "generally not competitive, with voters having no choice or only a strictly limited choice". Generally, when alternative candidates have been allowed to stand for election, they have not been allowed to promote very different political views.