And we shouldn’t allow this concept to go unchallenged here on Lemmy.

Commenting on an active post is not brigading

Posting a link to something is not brigading

Commenting on something you were linked to is not brigading

The only thing that might be brigading, but isn’t because it isn’t a real thing, is someone explicitly going, “Hey everyone, go here and harass this person”

It’s all fine and good that we have some new rules to keep the peace with other instances but we must fight against reddit logo brainworms

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

    Well yeah, but it’s okay when people call us bots because we’re genocide denying turbo tankies. When we take offense we are in the wrong. This is called “Civility”.

    It’s like “Talking back” that adults pull on children. Kids can’t figure out what they did wrong because they didn’t do anything wrong. Their crime is existing. Our crime is being outside the Overton Window. Nothing we can do will ever be acceptable.

    • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      It’s like “Talking back” that adults pull on children.

      !!! I had somehow forgotten about this phrase, even though it was my most frequent infraction and has shaped all of my dealings with children. It still baffles and hurts me that so many adults would rather get mad at kids for having feelings, opinions, and questions than talk to them like they’re actual people.