• Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Removing criticism of transphobia because “the evil hexbears” is fucking wild.

    Placing anticommunism above transphobia on your priorities list guarantees a slide into fascism. Once you start covering up and defending bigotry as long as the bigots are anticommunists you give the perfect cover for fascists to fuck around in your space. By the time a server owner realises that they’ve made everyone non-fascist leave (or conform to the culture they create thus becoming part of them) they end up just accepting it because doing anything about it would mean killing the entire community population. Because the narcissistic power of being community owner comes first.

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      1 year ago

      I agree with you and you’re being really correct, but narcissistic is a slur. The origin of the word comes from the disability Narcissistic Personality Disorder. You’re obvious talking about neurotypical behaviour, so could you use a different word?

      • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de
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        1 year ago

        The origin of the word actually comes from the Greek myth, and vastly predates the disorder but I’m going to assume you’re just trolling.

      • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        Wouldn’t choosing to maintain the fake sense of status that running an online community creates instead of deleting it because of the harm it does or will do definitionally narcissistic? Or is there a requirement here for such actions to be a lifelong pattern?

        • HodgePodge [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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          1 year ago

          i would just change it to self-centered. this is an online topic that’s not worth the argument and also narcissism unfortunately does have lightly ableist connotations now since the word has now been medicalized

          • dinklesplein [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
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            1 year ago

            i think calling people narcissists is kind of a reddit-logoism in general and should be abandoned entirely for that reason when as you said ‘self-centred’ accomplishes the same aims.