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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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[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago (23 children)

Hexbear users will bully you to hell the very second you say something they disagree with. In my case, I said South Park is a funny show. They also think Putin is a good guy and at the same time they pretend 90% of their users are trans. Basically it's a bunch of douche kids playing revolutionaries and intimating anyone they disagree with. My 2 cents.

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[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (43 children)

ITT: everyone says they're bad without giving any examples, telling you what to think instead of letting you form your own conclusions.

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[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

You either block them and die a liberal or you engage and observe and live long enough to start spreading their agitprop and using your new pronoun "comrade" as you lead the way to glorious revolution.

(Seriously though, they're just people on a leftist political instance. You'll get the good, bad, and weird, same as any other place).

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Here's my take...

They're more cohesive and insular than most groups you'll find on social media.

They've brewed their own strongly held culture and ideology.

Many are also used to being ostracised by other communities due to sexual preferences or other personal attributes.

The result is, if you naively post in a thread in which they are active your opinion will get stomped on if it does not directly align with theirs.

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[–] tht@social.pwned.page 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its a leftist space that sometimes has trolls

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[–] Atlas_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Have you ever heard of a drop bear?

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Hexbear is pretty overwhelmingly queer/trans and anarchist/communist.

If you've never run into a transfem communist IRL it's probably because you're not in many queer or left wing organizing spaces.

I'm actually pretty new to Lemmy in the last year and in that time I've seen way more .world posters being toxic about .ml/hexbear and making vague posts about how bad they are. I have to imagine that's why you're now seeing backlash to .world. Also most of the time I see people complaining about these instances and I dig into the modlog it's overwhelmingly because they got banned at some point for being reactionary and are bent out of shape about it.

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