I am seeing this pattern a lot lately, whenever a person disagrees strongly or expresses conservative/right wing views, they are told to go back to reddit.

You can say 'Don't bring these bullshit views to the fediverse,' or something of that sort. I am a reddit refugee myself, and part of the Reddit API exodus. Being told to go someplace I just left due to ethical reasons feels bad. So, I want to understand why it is being used as a retort. Is it really rude, or am I making a fuss out of nothing?

Edit 1: I am NOT defending conservative views, I think that they should not be given a platform in the fediverse. I am questioning how telling them to go back to reddit is a valid response.

Edit2 : Edited the the title to better represent my question.

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[–] 23 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

Redditors self-police their speech to fall in the window of acceptable debate. They are deeply brainwashed but have no idea of it because Reddit moderators ban anything not deemed "acceptable speech" by their media overlords. Hence they will spam the term "tankie" if someone for example tells them that killing the Iranian leader will only end up like killing Saddam in Iraq.

In the wise words of pedo-Zionist:

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  • [+] -9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    is he a pedo scientist tankie?

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Chomsky famously hated Marxists and never bothered to study Marxism enough to understand what dialectical materialism means. For a scholar who made a career of shitting on socialism in real life, this alone should tell you how unserious he is.

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  • [+] -10 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Somehow, it's way easier to get banned here than over there, though.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    It's not if you know the forbidden Reddit terms. Try saying anything anti-Zionist on mainstream Reddit subs and you are banned in half a second by automated bots.

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  • [+] -6 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    That actually got me a temp ban here once, as well.

    It was even a nuanced "both sides are human" take, not Hamas is awesome. I know, I wasn't expecting it for that either.

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    "Nuanced" Both sidesing in the face of a genocide? Condemning the oppressors and oppressed in equal measure? Do you not see the issue with that?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I was trying to debunk someone pro-Israeli, so...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Both sidesing genocide is still bad even if you are "debunking" hard-line pro genociders. If your position is anything short of Israel shouldn't exist it's liberal Zionism. You should have nothing but support for the liberation movements of oppressed nations even if they don't fit your pr standard.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (1 child)

    Sure. Please explain that to whichever mod is the Zionist. Maybe I'll actually speak out against it again, then.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

    I checked the modlog and you were very much banned for concern trolling about "Israelis being victims" while Gaza was getting flattened. You had another gem just before that where you fantasize about re-educating "brown folk".

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    not Hamas is awesome

    Should have been perma

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