Comment on The same people who rage against authority love moderating communities where their ideology is the only one allowed

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Voidian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I haven’t degraded anyone. My focus is on the contradiction of using the language of liberation to justify the mechanics of control.

Lemmy has a lot of performative anarchy: putting on the badass sunglasses of a rebel only to act as a gatekeeper for a specific set of permitted thoughts. When someone claims to be an anarchist but their first instinct is to use centralized power to silence anyone who doesn’t follow an ideological script, they haven’t abolished authority, they’ve just claimed it for themselves.

True anarchy requires individual responsibility. It’s about the capacity for adults to navigate discourse through their own discernment, critical thinking and voluntary association rather than needing someone to pre-filter their reality. If a community can only exist by forcibly removing any voice that challenges the status quo, it isn’t a functional anarchist space; it’s just a digital walled garden with a cool flag.

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