• mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          I’m just pointing out that the „fascist“ label got thrown around by people like you so inflationary that it lost every meaning or sense, making you sound similar desperate as those you seek to oppose. What this does have to do with the age of my account here is beyond me, on the other hand I sense a hint of alt tech elitism that fits the picture just right.

          • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
            3·
            1 year ago

            “People like me”? You’ll forgive if I don’t follow.

            And it has a meaning—that they are being fascists—which it maintains.

            It’s fascists’ fault they’re being fascists; not mine for correctly labeling it.

              • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
                3·
                1 year ago

                You want me to explain why transphobia is bad and should be opposed?

                No.

                Fuck out of here.
                I’m not explaining why antisemitism is bad either.

                • mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Funny how this escalated from you thinking that the socialpolitical movement of fascism has anything to do with a subtribe of modern, post–liberal 2nd wave feminists all the way to antisemitism - something, that wasn’t even remotely on the table. if you now manage to stir „racism“ into the mix, you can call it a day.

    • danhakimi@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      This article is really not convincing.

      like, fuck terfs, fuck the anti-trans movement, but the connection between the anti-trans movement and fascism is framed in this suuuuper abstract way that no meaningful definition of fascism would allow. It kind of just makes fascism sound like “statism.”

      There are plenty of terfs (again, fuck terfs) who are not calling for government action, but trying to exclude trans women from feminist spaces on non-governmental levels, arguing for a limiting social or academic definition of feminism or of a woman and holding exclusionary events. Fascism is an incorrect label for that behavior.

      Furthermore, to call terfs fascists implies that they are generally for other things fascists are for, like a command economy, which I don’t think is common.

      And to be clear, there is an overlap between terfs and fascists, and an even bigger overlap between anti-trans people in general and fascists. We all know the Nazis fucked up a lot of good gender research, but they were never pretending to be feminists.

        • danhakimi@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          … did you link to the wrong article by mistake? that article doesn’t really have anything to do with fascism, except insofar as most fascists also happen to be racists.

          • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
            1·
            1 year ago

            I could link articles all day but I have better things to do than entertain (presumably) a cis guy while he plays devils advocate about the people who want my friends thrown in camps not being fascists.

            • danhakimi@kbin.social
              1·
              1 year ago

              that’s literally the first article you linked to. Do you have a point at all? You can link to articles all day, but only two of them, and only one that argues for your point at all, which I’ve already addressed?

              I’m not advocating for terfs or fascists, they’re both villains, but to say they’re the same is like saying the KKK and the muslim brotherhood are the same. Just because they’re both evil and there are some common threads between their ideas doesn’t mean they’re the same. I think we should learn how to talk about the terrible groups out there instead of just equating all of them and dancing around our own ignorance. I’m not advocating them, I’m advocating against them as strongly as I can, and you’re promoting ignorance instead of responding to the one damn point I’ve made.

                • danhakimi@kbin.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  I read it, and responded to it. You’ve been ignoring my response because you don’t have an answer to it. So again. The core argument that terfs are fascists is:

                  To that end, Butler does a good job of laying out that the anti-trans movement ultimately is about strengthening government oversight — restricting access to medical care and generally seeking to ban LGBTQ+ people from the public sphere, which fits pretty neatly into just about every standard definition of fascism. That includes gender critical feminists, the self-professed “leftist” equivalent of the more extreme right-wing fundamentalists.

                  Which, again:

                  • Pretends the entire social-focused aspect of the anti-trans movement doesn’t exist, when it obviously does, and there are obviously many, many terfs focused on non-governmental oppression. The article itself describes governmental forms of oppression, but this does nothing to imply that the anti-trans movement is actually all about focusing on government oppression
                  • identifies an extremely superficial relationship between two positions as both being statist and therefore being the same. The police state is also about increasing government oversight. A command economy is about increasing government oversight. The founding of the CFPB was about increasing government oversight. Having courts is about increasing government oversight. These are not all forms of fascism.
                  • fails to describe fascism at all. Fascism is a specific thing with a specific definition, it’s not just the idea of having an active government. Fascism is a form of nationalism with a dictatorial government, a strong military focus, a hard command economy that exists to support the state and the military, expansionist policies, suppression of opposition to the government, denigration of the individual in favor of the collective in the form of the state… Now, the terf movement, overall, is doing some of those things, but the article doesn’t reference any of them.
                  • fails to establish that most terfs, or the core proponents of the terf movement, or terfs in general, are fascists, let alone that a terf is categorically a type of fascists.

                  If you have a point, then instead of linking to the same article again or linking article that isn’t about fascism, please make your point.

    • Neato@kbin.social
      20·
      1 year ago

      “No bigotry against US! TERF is a slur even though we coined it!” Is what they really mean.

    • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
      9·
      1 year ago

      I’ve already sent him a PM about that user & magazine a while ago. Still waiting and hoping to hear / see something.

      Edit: I also think this is kinda disappointing. Kbin immediately defederated from nsfwlemmy over some bullshit allegations that weren’t even true. Meanwhile this and other examples of toxicity remain to fester directly on this instance.

      • BasicTraveler@kbin.social
        11·
        1 year ago

        I sent him one a few months ago, and it was gone within a few hours. I think he cares, but is swamped and probably gets a ton of BS.

        It needs to be acted on though. We don’t want this to become a nazi bar. I hope he can figure out a way to share the load sometime soon.

      • Fitik@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        Agree, I don’t like defederating, why defederate from instance if you can just block it (There on kbin)

        • BasicTraveler@kbin.social
          8·
          1 year ago

          Any time I tried to get someone to check out Reddit, I hated having to preface it with, oh and you’re going to want to block these 30 subs, they’re horrible, and here’s another 100 that are kinda gross, I’ll email you my list…

          There’s stuff to block, but there’s stuff that should be banned too. I remember recommending some of the SQL reddits to coworkers just weeks before the jailbait crap hit the national news. It’s up to ernest how he wants to run this place, but I hope we don’t let the bar go too low.

  • Erikatharsis@kbin.social
    14·
    1 year ago

    I tried to report this magazine using the “contact” page a while back as it violates the kbin.social terms of service, but I guess as long as it’s only one nutjob posting and all the posts are getting disliked, it isn’t really a priority to remove.

      • Erikatharsis@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        I also definitely feel like it’s best to take more decisive action against hateful magazines, but I’m just assuming that this is @ernest’s logic: That people can block or clown on bigots until the bigots feel unwelcome, grow bored at the lack of an audience, and leave.

        I’ve personally been thinking of migrating to Blåhaj Lemmy because of the inadequate moderation against hateful magazines on this instance, but I’m waiting to see how kbin.social’s administration approach goes long-term. I think it would definitely be worthwhile for Ernest to invest in a bigger admin team and a more democratic approach to administration.

  • AshDene@kbin.social
    14·
    1 year ago

    Ugh, and 10A somehow also hasn’t been banned yet (and a quick check to his profile shows that he isn’t just still making bad-faith arguments about “free speech” but is also still spreading xenophobia, fake news about the last election, and so on).

    I’m out. Anyone know of a kbin (not lemmy) instance with reasonably good moderation?

      • Destragras@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        This makes me wonder if adding some temporary restrictions to creating magazines here (based on account age or activity?) would be worth it to potentially help slow down ones like this being made (and to help slow down magazine squatting?).

      • AshDene@kbin.social
        8·
        1 year ago

        And my comment. In a private window I can see that he replied to my comment as well, despite the fact that I blocked him, so blocks are still not working properly apparently.

        • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 year ago

          No you don’t. If you did you wouldn’t support giving terfs and fascists a platform. They use those platforms to erode and destroy free speech systematically.

            • urist
              4·
              1 year ago

              Freedom of speech means the government can’t suppress your speech. We have this in place to protect everyone from anyone who wants to use government to suppress speech.

              The speech you are “supporting” amounts to “Those minorities disgust me, I don’t think they should exist/have rights”. Some TERFers are going to support removing the freedom of speech from Transpeople. You’ll have trouble finding one who will state it directly, I imagine, but transphobes everywhere are working diligently to marginalize trans people, or even incite violence against them.

              No private citizen (read: people who host kbin/lemmy servers) is obligated to host/platform/listen to anything. I certainly wouldn’t host TERF opinions if it was my server. I wouldn’t allow it at my dinner table. We must be intolerant of the intolerant to protect those whom the intolerant seek to attack.

              It doesn’t mean I think the government should start suppressing TERF views, that’s not their place. This is what freedom of speech means.

                • urist
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  And once freedom of speech is abolished, goodbye kbin

                  Then wish it goodbye then, because even under it’s current operation this does not exist. Doing things like posting specific threats (threatening shootings, bombings), doxxing users, illegal porn, and other various behavior is still speech, we just all agree it’s harmful.

                  I am going to descend into hyperbole for a minute, apologies. I think it’s necessary because in my opinion you are already being hyperbolic. If Kbin.social chooses to ban this magazine, will you personally go fight kbin.social to unban it? Will you show up to this admin’s house with the intent to persuade them? You said you’d fight and die, gladly, for what you see as free speech, so would it apply here? I don’t think you would. This is why I am confused about whether you’re speaking about the first amendment or not. When we start talking this way I can only assume you are speaking about fighting against a fascist government, because I don’t think you mean to literally go threaten someone.

                  I support the idea that anyone should be able to say mostly whatever they want as long as they’re not advocating harm for other groups of people. I also support instances moderating things they don’t want to see on their platform. If a platform is too restrictive, I’ll leave, sure. I will point out you’re working awful hard to fight for a group a lot of other people think are deeply harmful to marginalized groups.

            • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
              0·
              1 year ago

              Uh, no, that’s not the point of free speech. The point of free speech is that people can’t be arrested for saying something the government doesn’t like. That’s it. Free speech does not mean that anyone is entitled to a platform, and it never has. It doesn’t mean people have to tolerate shitty beliefs and treat them as equal to any other. It doesn’t mean that you can just say whatever you want wherever you want without being told to get the fuck out. People like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of what free speech is and what its purpose is, and as a result you roll out the red carpet for fascists and the like so they can walk all over you.

                • Laticauda@lemmy.ca
                  0·
                  1 year ago

                  That’s a nice flowery and poetic concept of free speech, but it wasn’t the reason the 1st amendment was made, that was made so that people running for office couldn’t silent their opposition and the people could voice their criticisms without fear of retaliation from the government.

                  But whatever, fine, I’ll humour you.

                  If you want to uphold your version of free speech, then don’t give people like fascists (and terfs, which are just fascists with a fake mustache on at this point) a platform. They will actively work to dismantle that free speech, and thus are antithetical to it. No amount of trying to counter their arguments with facts and logic or appealing to their emotions will do anything in a public forum, history has shown that only private intervention has any chance of success at deradicalizing people on an individual basis. If you let the movement gain more visibility and legitimacy by entertaining their views on your platform, then you are helping them destroy free speech, full-stop. They are the true enemies of free society, and if you actually care about it you have to protect it from bad faith actors taking advantage of and manipulating it to erode the rights of others.

                  In a free society nobody is obligated to give anyone a platform or to entertain insanity. I work to uphold all civilization, not just western, by telling nazis to fuck off. You wouldn’t let a guy flinging his own shit around to get up on stage, and that’s the equivalent of what nazis are, except they actively spread propaganda and recruit other shit flingers, which is a lot easier to do up on a stage where everyone can see them flinging shit, and their shit can reach a lot more people. If you let them in, eventually all that will be left is a bunch of people flinging their shit around, and everyone else will have either left to avoid getting hit, or will have already been covered in it and are now suffering because of that. And it will all be because you wanted to defend to the death that guy’s right to throw shit at people.

                  And then in the end your “free speech” is nothing but a feces covered nightmare, and the mob of poop tossers moves on to the next stage, their numbers greater than ever. Congratulations.

      • Eigengrau@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        IIRC don’t think there’s even way to export data if you want to move instances either . Hope it all gets resolved sooner than later

        • Erikatharsis@kbin.social
          4·
          1 year ago

          Indeed. It’s easy enough to back up your posts/threads/comments with “save page as” on each page of your profile, but you can’t automatically transfer your followers, following, subscriptions, or moderated in a migration. You’d have to ask to be re-added as a moderator, have to contact your followers individually, have to add your subscriptions and following one by one to your new account… Has anybody made any sort of third-party tool to make migration easier?

      • AshDene@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        I’m not expecting perfection, but there hasn’t even been visible commitment to a strong moderation policy. ernst has as far as I can tell remained mostly silent on the matter, occasionally deflecting to “tools aren’t ready yet”, but also not really committing to what he wants to be done with the tools.

        10A is a particularly prolific problematic user, and as a single user (unlike the flood of porn spam) it’s a simple matter to ban him. It should not have been a hard decision to make by now.

        Personally, a bit over a month ago, I defined banning 10A (as well as one other individual) as the canary that would let me consider recommending other people come here. I was willing to give it some time, but it hasn’t happened yet. Whether this is an explicit policy of weak moderation, or simply an accidental one thanks to putting it at too low a priority, I don’t know. But I don’t particularly want to be on a site that I don’t feel comfortable recommending other people use. So I’m taking my own (lack of) recommendation for now and going to take a long break from this site.

        • cacheson@kbin.social
          4·
          1 year ago

          EH and grad at least were defederated at some point after I signed up, so that does seem to indicate that Ernest doesn’t want those kinds of users/content on here.

          I don’t think your stance is wrong though, and you should do what you need to do. Kbin wasn’t ready for the influx of redditors, and we’re seeing the effects of that now. I’m still hopeful that things will get cleaned up eventually, but we’ll see.

    • BasicTraveler@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      BeeHaw looked promising up until a few days ago when this happened:

      https://beehaw.org/comment/819474

      and the response from the other admins was a lack luster too.

      https://beehaw.org/comment/848740

      Like how hard would it be to say that the admin’s behavior was unacceptable and it will be discussed internally. It seems clear to me (and most other posters there) that it was a one sided issue.

      I’m not really sure where is good. It was nice to see some non-admins speaking up about it, but seeing the other admins circling the wagons when one of them is clearly in the wrong makes me weary of doing any more than lurking. 10A wouldn’t last 5 minutes there, but you have to worry about being berated if you’re not as far left as the admins even if you’re respectful.

    • Erikatharsis@kbin.social
      38·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • VoxAdActa@kbin.social
          17·
          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.

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
          6·
          1 year ago

          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.

            • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              If I’m “radically far left”, where would you place tankies and the likes then? Seriously, get your head checked and open your eyes as to what is happening in your idiotic country. If you don’t like my harsh tone, then simply start to do better, be better, be a decent human being. Until then I’m not going to touch you with velvet gloves because your behavior and decisions over there have a crucial impact on the rest of the world. Until then you can continue to suck my pucker, because that somehow would still make your shit spewing mouth somehow cleaner. o7

    • czech@kbin.social
      21·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • Xariphon@kbin.social
          16·
          1 year ago

          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.

        • czech@kbin.social
          6·
          1 year ago

          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?

            • czech@kbin.social
              11·
              1 year ago

              Fascism:

              a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

              Yea wow, we’ve never seen that in the last 7 years!

              I can see I really triggered you with that word. It’s hilarious that you self-identified with it and got defensive.

                • czech@kbin.social
                  5·
                  1 year ago

                  Ah, right- There are no fascists but if there are it’s the leftists! Thanks for a good laugh today. Don’t ever let facts get in your way, bud.

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
          4·
          1 year ago

          And did you give such flowery speeches about people’s “freedom of speech” over in r/Conservative when they routinely banned people for not just disagreeing, but for not agreeing enough?

          Or, like them, is your sense of injustice reserved entirely for straight, white reactionaries?

    • SlowNPC@kbin.social
      14·
      1 year ago

      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.

        • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
          12·
          1 year ago

          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

            • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
              12·
              1 year ago

              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.

            • Walk_blesseD
              8·
              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”: 😯

              • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
                6·
                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.

                • czech@kbin.social
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  The principle of free speech, in America, has nothing to do with forcing people to tolerate hateful rhetoric. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_United_States.

                  In the United States, freedom of speech and expression is strongly protected from government restrictions by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, many state constitutions, and state and federal laws. Freedom of speech, also called free speech, means the free and public expression of opinions without censorship, interference and restraint by the government.

                  As long as the government isn’t arresting you for your opinions then nothing going on here has to do with “free speech”. Individuals and corporations silencing you online is not a “disgrace to the principle of free speech”.

      • danhakimi@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Daryl Davis does what he does in one-on-one contexts and other safe environments.

        He doesn’t go on extremist internet forums and try to convince a bunch of nutjobs and trolls and violent monsters all at the same time. He would have been downvoted into oblivion where people who are looking for somebody to troll would have found him and antagonized him until he left.

    • Balios@kbin.social
      12·
      1 year ago

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

        • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
          7·
          1 year ago

          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.

        • Balios@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          The fact that you think that quote is about “owno, they’ll think Imma Nazi ;_;” reveals sooo many flaws with your world view.
          Absolute “I am 12 and this is deep” material, hilarious.

    • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      Are you a transgender person?

      You just seem so smart and intelligent regarding how a marginalized group should defend itself against attacks on its existence, I was just wondering if—and I know this is ludicrous to even conceive—you turned out to be full of shit, would you bear the consequences of being wrong about how trans people should deal with people who want to murder them or will you be fine regardless?

  • pgm_01@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    The magazine name is Modern Misogyny and rule 1 is “No bigotry - misogyny…”.
    That is like dividing by zero.

    Right now, it appears to exist only with one user posting to himself. It is not a big problem. However, if you don’t clean these things up quickly, you end up with a Nazi bar. Voat started out very Libertarian, but by the time it closed, its front page was dominated by hard-core antisemitism, it literally became a Nazi hang-out. Tolerance of intolerance ends up allowing the intolerance to spread and become the majority. kbin.social can not end up like that.

    • AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org
      5·
      1 year ago

      Im a former right wing libertarian. The kind of libertarian that voat was. I left because I looked around the libertarian communities I was in and realized I was the only one there who wasn’t anti semitic. You say it started libertarian and became Nazi. Right wing libertarianism IS nazism. They took the good ideas of real libertarianism (left libertarian, anarchism) and layered on shitty capitalism and other fucked up beliefs such as antisemitism and racism. Voat didn’t become Nazi it was always Nazi. Founded because groups like fatpeoplehate and other fucked up subs got banned.

  • Silverseren@kbin.social
    5·
    1 year ago

    How does one report a magazine and/or a user? I presume reporting posts in that magazine will just go to the bigoted owner, so no help there.

    I don’t want to just block them, I want to know when they’re pushing their bigotry somewhere.

    • Chetzemoka@kbin.social
      12·
      1 year ago

      Well, it violates the Kbin terms of service. Therefore it is being bright to the attention of admin.

      “We expect all users to treat each other with respect and kindness. Harassment, hate speech, or any other form of harmful behavior will not be tolerated. We reserve the right to remove any content or user that violates these guidelines.”