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I ran across that magazine recently and every post is transphobic af. Does that fit within kbin.social's code of conduct?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall fight to the death to defend your right to say it.

When you ban people, you tell them to go form an echo chamber where they'll flourish.

A more intelligent approach is to imitate Daryl Davis, who has convinced hundreds of KKK members to leave the KKK, simply by respectfully talking with them.

You might actually learn a thing or two in the process.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For every Daryl Davis who can successfully talk down 100 Klansmen, you'll find 100 Black people begging for their lives trying to reason with the Klan in their last moments. For every thought of "I can fix them!" that you may have, you have to weigh that against how many more people you'll need to fix if you platform their ideas and treat them as something worth "respectfully debating".

Convincing people to leave hate groups is a great thing to do, but if respectful debate were effective on the large scale, and we have no shortage of people respectfully arguing that hate is a bad thing, why is the far right a bigger threat now than it was ten years ago? Do not tolerate the intolerant, do not debate the undebatable, do not respect the unrespectable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

The "far right" is growing because the left keeps moving further left, and normal people realize they're now considered conservative.

If you want an echo chamber, go on and kick me out. You reap what you sow.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

What insane version of reality are you living in?

Globally the Overton window has shifted drastically right these past few decades.

Not too long ago leftists were holding ceos hostage and fighting armed conflicts, it’s so watered down people think someone like Bernie Sanders is a radical communist when he’s basically centrist.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

The "far right" is growing because the left keeps moving further left, and normal people realize they're now considered conservative.

I guess there really is no floor for how simple an idea can be when it's not beholden to reality. Thanks for the example.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I'm sorry I'm trying to give you rights and you feel attacked by that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This talking point is a deliberate strategy of the far-right that has no basis in reality.

The far-right is growing because people like him are allowed platforms to groom people for extremism. And whenever that platform is at risk, they start trying to guilt people by bleating about "censorship" and "free speech" and "echo chambers".

Just ban him. He will never contribute anything of value. We're already aware what the opinions of assholes are, we don't need reminding.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's absolutely true. Look at the DNC policy from 20+ years ago, and you'd think it looks like RNC policy of today. Moving leftward is part and parcel of the notion of "Progressive" politics — moving progressively leftward.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your dumbass hillbilly country does not have a left. Your political spectrum ends pretty close to the center.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should I be surprised that someone so radically far-left, so as to believe the US has no left, is someone who freely dishes out insults?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You sound like you've never argued with fascists online.

They only exist in echo chambers, anyway, and do not debate in good faith. There is nothing similar to what Daryl Davis did except in the most superficial way possible. Go visit /r/conservative and you might actually learn a thing or two.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mate, it’s obvious they are the fascists online.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was active in r/Conservative, and here I'm the primary contributer to m/Conservative. Hi, nice to meet you. When I'm engaged in arguments involving the word "fascist", it's rarely me using that word (unless we're literally discussing Mussolini), and usually me who's called that for favoring levelheaded conservative principles. I enjoy mutually respectful debate, but I find most others prefer to fearfully call me a "fascist," downvote everything I've ever written, block me, and walk away feeling sanctimonious.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

You were active in the biggest alt-right safe space echo chamber in all of reddit? Colour me surprised.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was active in r/Conservative, and here I'm the primary contributer to m/Conservative.

This is already a point at which you should go home and rethink your life. Everything else you've said only digs the hole deeper.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, everyone whose point of view differs from yours must obviously be inferior to you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (36 children)

That's a hilarious turn; my statement was meant to be rhetorical. But you really have never argued with fascists!

And I never said YOU were fascist... but I guess that doesn't fit with your canned response then, huh?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have mixed feelings about this

On one hand, Daryl Davis is a hero, and his method actually works to de-radicalize people. I prefer using this method when I encounter bigots irl.

On the other hand, allowing bigoted speech in your online platform has the potential to drive away normal folks and turn your platform into the echo-chamber where bigotry flourishes that you mentioned. This is basically what happened to Voat.

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall fight to the death to defend your right to say it.

I agree with this, but it's beside the point. This isn't a public space like a street corner, it's a managed public/private space like a bar, where the bouncer will kick you out for abusing other patrons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A group of patrons sitting at a table in a bar, quietly discussing their TERF perspective, is entirely different from one of them walking up to a trans table and picking a fight. The former is an exercise of free speech, whereas the latter is cause for ejection.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No. You don't have the right to debate other people's right to exist. Such speech is an act of violence and should be treated as such.

I don't want a group of people sitting around "discussing" whether or not black people are inherently inferior either. That is not speech we should accept in the public sphere

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Have you never heard "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me"? It's preschool 101. Speech is never an act of violence.

Additionally, nobody is debating anyone's right to exist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Says the person who's never heard their own right to exist or the rights of their loved ones called into question publicly.

You don't have the right to "debate" other people's equal rights.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"Speech is never an act of violence" mfs when I use a public platform to smear them as child molesters, while simultaneously encouraging acts of vigilantism against "paedos": 😯

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're not discussing quietly, everyone can hear them, and they want to be heard.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I only know about them because I subscribe to m/kbinMeta. If you stick to your subscribed magazines, as I do, you only hear those to whom you intentionally listen.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except it’s more like a group of patrons at a bar talking about killing a trans person, and than the next day one of them actually does it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind of absurd hyperbole is that? Nobody has called for murder. And certainly nobody has committed a murder based on a call for it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Speech has real life consequences.

"Known transgender killings increased 93% in that four-year period -- from 29 in 2017 to 56 in 2021"

https://abcnews.go.com/US/homicide-rate-trans-people-doubled-gun-killings-fueling/story?id=91348274

"Transgender people over four times more likely than cisgender people to be victims of violent crime"

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-press-release/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

He knows. That's why he's desperately trying to hold on to his little platform.

Pick almost any mass shooter at random and look at their online history and you'll find the same story over and over again; "progressively radicalised by social media".

They're absolutely aware these domestic terrorists come from their midst. Find a far-right enough chat room and they openly celebrate it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I don't condone murder under any circumstances. But using 56 murders as an excuse to silence anyone online is a disgrace to the principle of free speech.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That misunderstanding is why echo chambers grow. Your fear of being perceived as a Nazi only reveals that you're overly concerned what other people think of you, which strongly suggests that you're young and naive. As you grow up, you'll stop caring what others think of you (hopefully you will — no everyone does), and you'll learn to respectfully engage in conversation with people of divergent viewpoints (even if they happen to believe their personal level of melanin justifies their superiority complex).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As you grow up, you'll stop caring what others think of you (hopefully you will — no everyone does

Good people care about what their friends and family think of them more than they care about grooming school shooters.

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