It's a tricky prospect, trying to balance hate speech and distinguishing it from someone simply expressing bad thoughts.

I guess I'm someone who came with a lot of poor, preconceived notions, and it took some time, patience, and radicalizing to arrive where I am today.

I've had some pretty awful takes over the years and said insensitive things, but it's other comrades who turned me on to better ideas.

  • Sandals [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    If you've never been banned from a leftist space, did you even radicalize?

    • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Being banned from r/communism for not having been born a fully realized Marxist-Leninist is pretty much a chapo tradition lol

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          4 years ago

          You have been banned from r/Communism for supporting Lenin in an obscure Lenin-Stalin argument from 1923.

      • Veegie2600 [none/use name]
        1·
        4 years ago

        Isnt r/communism on some kind of "ban drugs and video games" NazBol shit right now?

        • cosecantphi [he/him, they/them]
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          4 years ago

          I'm not sure, but I was banned by a bot for having previously commented in Bernie subs. From what I've seen, the bot bans you instantly upon your first post if you've ever posted in non-ML leftist subs.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
          1·
          4 years ago

          Before that they were banning people for saying "dumb", before that it was catgirls.

          • Veegie2600 [none/use name]
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            4 years ago

            Oof. At least theyre not on that r/CA type shit, banning people for "extreme indifference to injury/death".