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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I think we should always care about mass genocide on specific cultural groups, the world cared about the Holocaust, or is that a “who cares” for that one too?

    This is doubly true when a fascist regime is doing everything they can to pretend like it’s not happening.

    Just like I care about police brutality, and the mass Graves in Canadian schools, also because local governments are trying somewhat to cover them up. I also care about the genocide that happened in the 1900s in the Congo.

    Isn’t it crazy that I can care about human suffering?? Empathy is a wild thing.




  • I get that of course, but a lot of people are going to be put off that the main dev is a genocide denier, there’s no way around that. I’ve seen mastodon posts of activists specifically telling people to not use Lemmy for that reason. In fact it’s equivalent to the attitude I see around here of people saying we need to silence fascists at all costs. They just see it as a scarlet mark on the whole endeavor.

    We need a way to answer that while making people aware Lemmy is designed so that it doesn’t matter.

    I recognize my post didn’t really convey that. I dunno, I’m not terribly charismatic.









  • It doesn’t even need to be an active effort of persuasion, just having them exist closely (in a somewhat censored way if everyone has them muted/defederated) is also good.

    There was a recent study that paid trump supporters to simply watch CNN instead of Fox and they got pretty good results on moderating them down. You can’t discount how people, to some degree, absorb the views of those around them. Even just seeing reasonable takes can sometimes get the gears turning in someone’s head that could result in them thinking differently days or months down the line. I can say I’ve had my mind changed in similar ways, although I’ve never been a radical bigot.