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There’s a serious problem with discourse. Also I came from a server notorious for that kind of behavior, or at least those opinions, but I got banned as a “reactionary” for defending someone who I do political work with that is a Trotskyist. People were bending over backwards to jump all over me, call me names, misinterpret what I was saying – kind of like people were doing here a little while ago. From my perspective I don’t see a big difference between the people who try to bully you into not voting, and the people who try to bully me into voting. I seem to get bullied either way.
I have a lot of different heated discussions about politics all the time in my organizing so maybe I just have a thicker skin. I’m still not really used to it. But perhaps you’re right I should use more care, but I also think I should be able to voice a harmless opinion and not get shunted into one of two camps. We see this “campism” a lot now, more than ever before. I believe that I can work with progressive liberals, who make up the majority of Lemmy servers, as well as other tendencies of leftists because I think we all basically have the same enemies. But instead we just make enemies of each other? It works a little too well for the benefit of the wrong people.
There’s a serious problem with discourse. Also I came from a server notorious for that kind of behavior, or at least those opinions, but I got banned as a “reactionary” for defending someone who I do political work with that is a Trotskyist. People were bending over backwards to jump all over me, call me names, misinterpret what I was saying – kind of like people were doing here a little while ago. From my perspective I don’t see a big difference between the people who try to bully you into not voting, and the people who try to bully me into voting. I seem to get bullied either way.
I have a lot of different heated discussions about politics all the time in my organizing so maybe I just have a thicker skin. I’m still not really used to it. But perhaps you’re right I should use more care, but I also think I should be able to voice a harmless opinion and not get shunted into one of two camps. We see this “campism” a lot now, more than ever before. I believe that I can work with progressive liberals, who make up the majority of Lemmy servers, as well as other tendencies of leftists because I think we all basically have the same enemies. But instead we just make enemies of each other? It works a little too well for the benefit of the wrong people.