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I'm going to tentatively upvote this. There's a good reason the left wingers on this platform sound bitter (myself included). The Overton Window has shifted right, so they're pretty much surrounded by toxic right-wing stuff on every other platform.
Still, it doesn't help Lemmy attract moderates.
What conservatives want is for us to treat them like babies with tiny little fragile baby beliefs that we have to coddle.
I don't care if you think differently than me, what I care about is babies demanding we take their hateful and irrational ideologies seriously while they simultaneously target vulnerable groups with at a minimum hate speech and harassment.
If we coddle conservatives this place becomes less welcoming to new people, that is how it is.
Yeah you're absolutely right. Though we are talking about two separate things here; OP and I are talking about "eat the rich" left rhetoric. Like people coming here and seeing comments like, "wheel out the guillotines", and "kill all CEOs".
You're talking about the fact that we shouldn't welcome conservative voices after they've ruined the rest of the internet. I absolutely 100% completely agree with you.
I'll give you an example; I'm more leftie than my wife. So it surprising to her when I said that people should be allowed to just punch Nazis with no legal ramifications. Like to her it was actually confronting to hear someone she knew advocate for violence. I explained my reasoning. They are corrosive to society's norms, and really need a different set of rules to regular people to be contained. The only language they understand is violence.
But the point is the average person is going to be immediately repulsed by calls for violence and extreme rhetoric, regardless of whether it is morally justified and the reasoning is technically correct.
So imagine a moderate "regular" person coming to this forum. Without the context of history that you and I have, how do they interpret these comments? Will they want to stay on Lemmy?
I'm not saying Lemmy should change, by the way. I have no problem with the rhetoric, and there's a case to be made that getting rid of it may make it easier for conservatives to get a foothold here. But it's worth a discussion, I guess.
And that all said, there's a chance that by "eat the rich" OP means anything complaining about the rich, in which case they can fuck off to their own instance.