Lemmy might be the only site you go to that has a sizable proportion of these.

yeah, and that’s what I was saying. I only ever see it here. So it’s only relevant to Lemmy for me. I already looked up the term when I first created a Lemmy account because I kept seeing it used and wanted to know what everyone was so feverishly talking about and then I learned more about it… I don’t know it was pretty disappointing.

To me its just politics and I hate politics and people who like to get real fucking deep on discussing politics and live and die by their beliefs. There’s a lot of that I have to deal with in real life too, so that makes it extra exhausting.

I did think the mega post about it was interesting and talked about hexbear users too - I could probably dig it up but it was such a long read. I only enjoyed it because the person who wrote it mentioned not trying to take sides on the subject, and used their own personal experience which I really appreciate.

Sadly I came over here from Reddit to get away from the kind of people who like to rip someone a new one for just sharing their own personal experiences.

Honest mistake

Really? Why not just… read usernames? I already assumed that was his mistake but there isn’t like a timer to post. You can sit here and read things before responding. You can even edit posts after you make them.

And I’m aware of why it gets brought up. I saw the mega post about it too.

I stand by what I said. It’s annoying to see it constantly. And I do only see it on lemmy.

by complaining about people using the perjorative you’re essentially like the teacher punishing the victim for being fed up enough to finally hit the bully back who has been hitting the victim while the teacher has their back turned.

Interesting you should mention this. I’m Filipino and there was this racist kid in my class who always said racist shit to me and would fuck with me all the time, would even beat me up sometimes.

This was second grade. We were walking in single file line back to class and he was behind me, stepping on the back of my shoes to fuck with me while I was walking.

I turned around, and punched him right in the stomach. I was sent to the principals office and got in trouble. My parents were called in and all that. I believe he also got in trouble but it didn’t matter. He still said racist things to me after that but he stopped physically fucking with me.

So nah. I don’t think that’s a good metaphor for what’s happening here.