Hey, new federated user from Hexbear here - Hexbear
hexbear.net
Just curious how many of you are cool with this deeply racist image being the header for one of your comms

Thread now locked, so you can’t brigadedeeper-sadness

I understand this to be an official endorsement of racism from the mod team at shitjustworks

Enjoy this attempt to find a single non-racist among our new friends

Edit: Mods are mass deleting comments lmao

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]English
    63•2 years ago

    Woah, did not expect their users to defend racism that hard.

    I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. When the Western media declares a country the new bad guy of the week suddenly racism becomes magically fine if it’s against ‘bad country’. The same thing happened to Arabs during the ‘war on terror’.

    Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]English
        44•2 years ago

        I’m not sure why we should stay federated with racists to be honest.

        Especially when instead of doing any sort of self reflection their mods just start banning Hexbear users left and right… for being against racism. You can’t make this shit up lmao data-laughing

        • PM_ME_YOUR_FOUCAULTS [he/him, they/them]OPEnglish
          37•2 years ago

          I argued before federating that allowing a comm with a openly racist header said a whole lot about the people that run the instance and the people who hang out there. Some people were inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt given that it is a small and inactive comm.

          But I think the post shows that they’d rather try and own the tankies than condemn racism if the question is put to them point blank

        • Doubledee [comrade/them]English
          14•2 years ago

          I think charitably we might have better luck dealing with them when they come here, if they’re given the ol’ bear hug they can either learn or get smothered I guess. hexbear

        • ExternalAlpaca [none/use name]English
          6•2 years ago

          I’m not sure why we should stay federated with racists to be honest.

          I’m not sure why we held a second vote on federating with racists two weeks after the first one was a loud, overwhelming, I mean “referendum on the future of the USSR” level NO, to be honest.