Some of you may have had the unfortunate experience of seeing the posts on the dunk tank. I keep seeing really bad tastes, bad politics, transphobia, racism, you name it - just overall really awful posts. The content on there totally goes against Hexbear’s code of conduct, and I’m shocked that we would ever consider associating with that instance. It has always been bad over there, but ever since federation opened up, the levels of toxicity have grown immensely, as exemplified in this post. I am calling on Hexbear’s moderators to defederate from the dunk tank immediately, as this is unacceptable to the Hexociety we live in.
Flunk tank.
I think there’s two things going on here that you ought to be aware of.
Firstly, this is a socialist instance, and so when we say “liberal”, we usually don’t mean “US left-wing”, we mean “pro-capitalist”. Under that definition, both major American parties and almost all Americans are liberal.
Secondly, when we are talking about “US left-wing” liberals, we’re talking about a group that is way closer to “US right-wing” conservatives than to us. There is dunking on conservatives, but conservatives are boring. We know they’re right-wing, they know they’re right-wing and they love wallowing in their own shit. But liberals will say some absolutely wild right-wing garbage and still go on thinking they’re left-wing. Stuff that’s racist, stuff that’s homophobic, stuff that’s factually untrue, stuff that’s horrifically cruel, and the second they’re challenged on it, they’ll call you uncivil. They’ll get really defensive if you threaten their righteous, smartest person in the room brand identity by being either more righteous or smarter than them, and they’ll spout even more right-wing garbage to try and justify themselves. If you notice we’re mean to “US left-wing” liberals, you have to understand that it’s because we’re hoping for a brighter, kinder, more reasonable future.