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  • god damn it, this “free market of ideas” bullshit never fucking worked

    people who are bigots more often than not double down on their bigotry when it’s challenged

    because it’s not a reasoned position they’re taking; it’s “Things in my life aren’t that great, and I don’t trust those people; I am going to rationalize to myself that that’s their fault” or “I just don’t like those people and I want an excuse to hurt them”

    like yeah, sometimes it’s genuinely not knowing, but if you’re constantly proven wrong about your bigotry and you keep doing it then you, on some level, want to continue being bigoted












  • I’m not blocking you; had you been replying to what I said?

    also being blocked from an instance doesn’t mean you’re suddenly not able to use the Fediverse; it just means that that instance doesn’t want to associate with yours

    this can be fixed by just moving to another instance, or (in this case) getting rid of the alt-right shit

    Defederation isn’t an attack on free speech; it’s a group saying that they don’t want to interact with you; freedom of expression doesn’t mean everyone must listen