Comment on Request to mod c/conservative

remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I spoke about this in another thread, but it seems like a very delicate balancing act to find the right moderator for that kind of community. To be a conservative is to be tolerant of fascists and Neo-Nazis to some degree. In the current political climate, it is inevitable that any right-leaning community will have elements of these abhorrent ideologies. I don’t think fascists and Neo-Nazis should be tolerated to exist in any space. No community as a whole is made safer by their presence, quite the opposite. So any moderator of a conservative community either must not be a conservative themselves or be one of the seemingly minority of conservatives that utterly disavow nationalists and bigotry, but this would put them in a position of poorly representing the community they moderate.

  It’s a tricky situation.

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To be a conservative is to be tolerant of fascists and Neo-Nazis to some degree

    That is unfortunatly the truth for a lot of conservative parties around the world these days, but I don’t agree that one personally has to do that to be a conservative. So I really disagree with that sentiment.

    However I do agree that it is a very tricky situation indeed.

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    • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m not so sure. I think there are conservatives who truly believe themselves to be intolerant of fascists and bigots but, first and foremost, they are not representative of conservatives as a whole and therefore may not be best suited to represent and moderate a community of conservatives, and secondly, I’m reminded of the German saying about Nazis at the table. If there is a table of ten people and a Nazi sits down with them and no one leaves, there are 11 Nazis at the table.

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Half the problem is that the word fascist is completely overused. And the other half is a lot of people on Lemmy here convinced themselves that deporting illegal immigrants is fascism, when it simply isn’t.

    Trump is not a fascist, never was.

    Frankly, Lemmy is not a place for differing opinions, it’s a place for the far left to circlejerk.

    All I want to see out of this is honesty. If it’s not for conservatives, then don’t act like it is.

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Obviously not. There is no such thing as a conservative that acts in good faith in the first place.

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• cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have not posted any misinformation, I have pledged to clear up known misinformation spreader links such as Breitbart

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I didn’t say you did. But you spend the entire morning spamming the community with memes intended to troll the members, exploiting the fact that it was unmodded and breaking rule 6. That’s not behaviour becoming of a mod anywhere and certainly not in a community which you ideologically oppose.

    But hey, not my decision, just providing some background info.

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    • cm0002@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I see your point, however, in my view it has been abandoned with the only serious posters posting mostly misinformation and is open to be remade in “a new image”. In fact, it seems the only time “good” source links were posted (i.e. AP news) was after it went modless (for the most part)

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