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Why is Lemmygrad hated in the wider space of Lemmy? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that? Are there any good leftist instances?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Opposing a settler colonial, apartheid State, which has been ethnically cleansing for three generations and is committing genocide as we speak, is not a “soft aura of antisemitism”.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Obviously not, i'm talking about the people there who were using the leftist environment to shield their actual antisemitism. That shit's been since wiped off the platform but that wasn't the case back when I was there.

You know the kind. The ones who would call them "Jews" rather than "Zionists" where if it was posted on reddit nobody would have trouble seeing the antisemitism for what it was but because it was hexbear it obfuscated their actual intentions. Outright antisemitism would get punished pretty hard which is why it's a soft aura, since it just kinda hung around in the background seeing how much it could get away with. The mods/admins tendency to just ban people who went against the grain resulted in that shit being passively protected for years until the federation forced them to be at least somewhat accountable where blatantly silencing criticism wasn't going to fly anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, thanks. I’m glad I got to the party late then!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, you guys get the cool hexbear.