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  • https://lemmy.world/comment/823087

    There’s some terf shit.

    Like grow some empathy. Hormone treatment isn’t for transitioning. It’s for reducing morbidity in patients and is prescribed on that basis. Fear mongering side effects is the same as poo pooing chemo because it makes your hair fall out.

    If you are sad that your bigot opinions get you called a nazi, maybe it’s on you not to share these opinions. I don’t go chewing my clients ear off about startrek, it’s the same principal they aren’t a welcoming audience.

    Maybe if you are still going to talk about these things, contrast the things with middling results to the things with the best results, not some boogeyman unknowns.




  • Burst out where? Into another instance that can get defederated? Into a million instances? Great. Spread that userbase as thin as possible. Defederate the most annoying ones.

    The nasty stuff you are talking about is straight from Fox news. That’s a failure of American broadcasting standards, that you have an “entertainment” channel holding itself up as legitimate news.

    If Fox was disallowed from calling itself news years ago, you would not have these problems. If Fox was put into subscriber only TV channels, you would not have this problem.

    Fox was opt-out for viewers. Make it opt-in. Make hateful instances opt -in for the users.


  • they won’t be exposed to competing ideas

    They wouldn’t be exposed to competing ideas if nobody defederates. They would subscribe to their own communities, where normal people would not participate, leaving only toxic ineffectual discussion.

    Defederating is not ignoring the problem. It’s an active choice. It’s scooping the floaters out of the pool. It’s a clear message that bigotry is not tolerated. When they get bored of their hateful shit they can come and have manners and enjoy cat pictures with the rest of us.

    I will decline being the counterpoint for this bullshit. It’s not a normal person’s responsibility to educate bigots.