MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
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Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.
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Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.
Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post as opposed to arguing.
You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
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Apparently Hexbear's Code of Conduct is as performative as its leftism.
And then in practice (just from scrolling through their crosspost):
Further in the rules:
Yet I got tagged in that thread twice without having participated in it: once to be insulted (see above) and the other time by a mod of multiple Hexbear communities expressing their intent to ban me for this incident in the reddit sub I mentioned in the OP, which I would argue is one of the most straightforward cases of harassment.
I'm still new to all this, but I was on a hexbear just now reading an article I had searched. The first comment I saw was just talking trash about elmo musty. Nothing bad, pretty tame.
The comment under it from an actual hexbear user said "we don't use ablelist language here". I re read the comment. Was it the word dumbass? It was the only "namecalling" word in the comment.
Reminded me of a time I got banned from a subreddit for saying "the housing market is insane right now" in one of these so called inclusive places, as insane is apparently ableist, and you know, not just an adjective describing something incomprehensible to a wild degree, which can have both negative and positive connotations.
Okay there bud... It's good to learn the places to avoid.