Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama)
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day agoThat’s fair, but somehow I never seem to see hatred directed towards any other nationality on Lemmy, aside from Americans
Because you only speak English, not German, Dutch, Italian or French (or at least, aren’t actively posting in those communities with this account). And, rather ironically, that’s a very common thing to see in Americans. I’ve never seen a German post about how few people are commenting on (negative) events in Sweden, because they realize that most people commenting on Swedish events are Swedes are posting in Swedish, in Swedish forums, and not Germans posting in German in German forums, except when it occasionally makes the German newpapers.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
That’s a decent argument, but America isn’t the only nationality that speaks English natively. Canada, NZ, Britain, Ireland, Australia all exist and the type of behavior I’m talking about doesn’t get directed towards them. Furthermore, English is the primary language of internet discourse. Lemmy has potential to move beyond that paradigm, but the vast majority of content still remains in English, and the vast majority of users speak English, even if it’s not their native language.
More importantly, I want to clarify my meaning, because you seem to be misinterpreting. People commenting on negative events in America is fine with me, I have no problem with that. It’s when people say crazy out of pocket shit in unrelated threads and get upvoted for it that I become annoyed.
I didn’t want to put anyone specific on trial here, so I didn’t mention it until now, but there was one specific user who provides a good example of this behavior. A few months ago I rebuked him for his constant insults and hating on Americans. I was able to find dozens of aggressive, insensitive comments that he had just made within the previous couple weeks. I won’t name him in his comment, but if you read through this thread you’ll know.
sh.itjust.works/post/26023070/14232483
First of all, note the 10 downvotes u/ferret received for making the simple, factual observation that the US has the largest population of English speakers in the world by a significant margin. That seems a bit unwarranted, no?
Then, when I provide the evidence of this user’s persistent toxicity towards Americans at the end of the thread, everybody who was downvoting us suddenly fades into the woodwork and pretends it never happened. That’s fucking gaslighting, people talk mad shit and then when they get called out they just run away and act like it never happened. I’m gonna transcribe that vitriol again, because I’m sick of people acting like I’m being super sensitive and it’s only because of my American privilege and it’s just the same shit that other nationalities deal with. It’s not normal, it’s abusive and pathological hatred and it’s only acceptable when directed towards Americans.
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>Glock pistols popular in US because of the proliferation of fucking cowards >Scared of their own fucking shadows, those pussies >What’s the difference between a cow and 9/11 >You’d stop milking a cow after 23 years >Seems a bit unnecessary when you could just dress the ivy up like schoolkids and the yanks would wipe it out in a week >>German >I’m guessing a yank whose great great great great great great grandfather once wiped his cock on a strudel >They’re using American weapons, they should just aim for schools >Holy fuck, yanks are weird >God I’d hate to have such poor reading comprehension. You’d last about a minute in UK based communities lol >You’re not out of the dark ages, you quivering shitebag lol >You mean prison slavery? That’s the US, get on it lol >Did it come out of the States? >If so, guaranteed utter fucking horseshit >You can punch your hand through your plasterboard mate lol >You can always spot an American because they’re so fuckin scared of everything. Look, this one’s scared of his own shite 😂 >Of course! >Just lose the - >- Guns >- Tiny-penis trucks >- the “right” to hate-speech >- the religious weirdo thing >And you’ll be getting close to the 20th century! >Know how yous get upset when people say “Americans are stupid” >Literally a third of you have demonstrated that you’d eat gravel if someone said it’d cure immigrants >A third. So lets just say only half of the other two thirds are stupid >That’s quite a few. Almost a quarter pounder >Yous cunts are greedy to the point of being fuckin EVIL >That’s just… evil, taking money from poor folk and their kids >How are yous letting evil cunts do this to your fellow citizens? How are you not fucking getting the flaming torches out? >Selfish fucking cunts, the lot of you. Stand up for not just yourselves, for all of yous >The bot is only “spreading misinformation” to people who are too stupid to realise that “left” and “right” mean politically different things in different countries >Mostly the yanks >I feel really sorry for this guy >What kind of unhinged parents call their kid Tyreek?
Again, that’s just from a single user over a period of 2-3 weeks. This kind of attitude is pervasive across Lemmy, and it’s a big problem because it drives away a lot of potential users.
See if you can find me an example of another Lemmy user who is on a crusade like that against a different nationality. Not just a reasonable criticism of a political or economic event, but someone who is actively going out of their way to insult and berate one specific nationality. Because I’d wager I could find dozens more lemmings that constantly act that way towards Americans if I really wanted to.