Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585
Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:
Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.
Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:
Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.
Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.
I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:
It’s not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.
I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don’t want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that’s not the case in any of the communities I’ve been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.
PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.
Nah dude, why would I continue to discuss with you in good faith at this point? You are so obviously arguing in bad faith. You have no points. You are wrong. If you self-reflect, you’d KNOW you’re wrong. You know how Trump supporters refuse to confront reality because they’re so deep in denial? That’s you. 100%.
This is exactly how you get banned. You deserve it. Bad faith liar who supports fascism.
Bye bye, blue MAGA. You fascist freaks are history.
Because you said you wanted to understand?
Sorry buddy but that’s just me matching your energy, you couldn’t even go one reply in good faith. I matched your good faith energy when I got to that portion of your reply, and you immediately call foul. Now that seems like bad faith.
mhmm right, everyone you disagree with obviously knows they are wrong but just won’t admit it.
Wow so because I disagree with you… I’m some kind of… Blue MAGA? How original, definitely not a thought terminating cliche.
Okay, you know what, I’m a really nice, reasonable guy, so I will give you another chance.
If you try your best to tell the truth instead of lying, try to assume good faith, hold back on personal attacks, don’t misrepresent my positions, or strawman my arguments, then I’m sure we can talk this out. If something seems unclear or unreasonable to you, ask what I mean instead of assuming, and I will do the same for you.
Now, let’s have the truth: what do you do for work? You don’t need to dox yourself, just share what industry you work in. I promise, I won’t judge you, whatever it is. If you’re a landlord, a cop, that’s all fine, let’s just have an honest, good faith, dialogue and exchange of ideas. Doesn’t that sound nice?
Now see, that doesn’t seem like such a nice-guy good faith thing to say. I haven’t been lying, and I don’t appreciate you purporting that.
But okay, sure, I mean I wish we could have started with “hold back on personal attacks, don’t misrepresent my positions, or strawman my arguments,” don’t know why that wasn’t an option, but let’s go.
Unskilled labor, retail. That’s it. There are thousands of different jobs in different industries that are largely identical to mine, because I deal with customers. No, we don’t have a union.
Okay, wonderful! Thank you for sharing.
I’m gonna just go ahead and outline a few of my beliefs - but of course this is not an exhaustive list - and you can let me know what, if anything, you disagree with, and we can take it from there. I hope that sounds good to you.
I believe that, under capitalism, money is power.
I believe that the more money you have, the easier it is to make more money.
I believe that almost anyone with any power would be willing to use that power to benefit themselves.
I believe that both mainstream political parties in the US have been nearly completely captured by the extremely wealthy.
I believe that the mainstream media serve the interests of the extremely wealthy.
I believe that the extremely wealthy have an outsized influence over independent media and social media platforms.
I believe that the extremely wealthy generally prefer fascism to socialism, because socialism threatens their class interests (i.e. their ability to accumulate and hoard wealth, and therefore power)
What do you think? Do you agree or disagree with these positions?
Yeah
Yeah
I guess? Seems kinda vague, like yeah people will do what they can for their own self interest, but there are exceptions and limits I think.
Yeah, but I think change is possible, and even barring change, sometimes enough pressure can move them on certain issues.
Generally yeah
Yeah
Yeah
Thank you for your responses, I appreciate it. Glad to see we broadly agree!
Yes, people will do what they can for their own self interest, exactly. By exceptions and limits, what do you mean by that? Like, people have their own ethical boundaries?
I agree with that - “certain issues” being the operative phrase there. I believe that, as long as it does not conflict too strongly with the interests of the extremely wealthy, they are willing to move in progressive directions, or regressive directions, in response to pressures from the voter base and from influential special interest groups.
By the way, feel free to share your own beliefs and positions - or something else entirely - I don’t want to dominate the direction or framing of this conversation, I just opened with this because I wasn’t sure what else to open with.