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I guess it is a consequence of the Reddit migration where the habit is just keeping the old community name. But having C/Politics being US only on Lemmy.world, an instance that aims to be international (hence the name), seems weird to me.
Would have been cool to give up this assumption that everything is related to US by default when moving away from Reddit. I mean, even the canadian political news of Lemmy.ca is CanadaPolitics.
It also directly goes against their rule 3 which is “no discrimination”.
No, in a space that’s dominated by Americans, and where the base politics forum is US-only, this isn’t discrimination. It’s carving out a space for everyone else.
You don’t get to take over every space your eyes fucking see. You’re not Mufasa.
By your logic bathrooms are discriminatory as well. Each instance can set its own rules, if you don’t like the rule then block that instance. Problem solved.
It’s negative discrimination - when you try to limit the overwhelming power of one group over all others. That’s the reason why lots of governments have laws that mandate e.g. the minimum number of female employees etc. It is to mantain some balance.
All kinds of world news is dominated by USA relations anyway. People don’t need that and to read about every school shooting and presidential fart as well.
Another topic, but related: I mod at !playstation@lemmy.world. Since basically all the ps-related news is about the PS5, I’m asking people to post news and stuff specific to PS5 into its own community. Am I discriminating against PS5 users? Perhaps, but what’s the point of having two comms with 99% copypasted content, with anything else being drowned?
Ok, but what you described is literally discrimination against americans. Just because they’re american, doesn’t mean its not discrimination.
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QQ all day long, I guess.
If you changed the word “US” to a middle eastern country, im sure that’d receive a lot of backlash, but since you mentioned the US its acceptable. /s
Your convenient and bad-faith lack of understanding of power imbalances doesn’t make you not a giant crybaby. Go home. Y’all seem to love your isolationist imperial hellscape, just stay there and keep your nose out of what other people are doing. The rest of us don’t want you around, anyway.
Oh noes! Sumeting isn’t abowt me! Dis must be wut discwiminashun is! Help! Help! I’m bean oppressed!
For the record i’m not american, that doesn’t mean i support racism against people who are. And honestly, its hard to take the opinion of someone who speaks this way:
doesn’t make you not a giant crybaby. Go home
especially when most others on this thread are speaking civilly.
Go home. Y’all seem to love your isolationist imperial hellscape, just stay there and keep your nose out of what other people are doing. The rest of us don’t want you around, anyway.
Thanks for confirming my point about blatant discrimination. Baffles me how people only think that racism applies to certain countries and that if you’re racist to say, americans, its acceptable.
No, in a space that’s dominated by Americans, and where the base politics forum is US-only, this isn’t discrimination. It’s carving out a space for everyone else.
You don’t get to take over every space your eyes fucking see. You’re not Mufasa.
American politics in a nutshell.
+1 for Mufasa
Ok, but what you described is literally discrimination against americans. Just because they’re american, doesn’t mean its not discrimination.
If you changed the word “US” to a middle eastern country, im sure that’d receive a lot of backlash, but since you mentioned the US its acceptable. /s
when you place bias in a news community, that community is corrupt, its not a credible source for news.
Then you’d agree that c/politics should allow any political news and discussion from around the world and not just U.S. politics, correct?
Yeah i agree, or politics should at least rename to American Politics to clarify, and lemmy.ca’s one Canadian Politics, etc.
By your logic bathrooms are discriminatory as well. Each instance can set its own rules, if you don’t like the rule then block that instance. Problem solved.
A bathroom is not shaping a person’s knowledge about the world, news is.
You would probably prefer the kbin world news.
Their only rules are that “US news is world news” and don’t post nsfw.
You skipped the 2nd part.
Do you believe in “reverse racism” and “heterophobia” as well?
It’s negative discrimination - when you try to limit the overwhelming power of one group over all others. That’s the reason why lots of governments have laws that mandate e.g. the minimum number of female employees etc. It is to mantain some balance.
All kinds of world news is dominated by USA relations anyway. People don’t need that and to read about every school shooting and presidential fart as well.
Another topic, but related: I mod at !playstation@lemmy.world. Since basically all the ps-related news is about the PS5, I’m asking people to post news and stuff specific to PS5 into its own community. Am I discriminating against PS5 users? Perhaps, but what’s the point of having two comms with 99% copypasted content, with anything else being drowned?
Oh noes! Sumeting isn’t abowt me! Dis must be wut discwiminashun is! Help! Help! I’m bean oppressed!
QQ all day long, I guess.
Your convenient and bad-faith lack of understanding of power imbalances doesn’t make you not a giant crybaby. Go home. Y’all seem to love your isolationist imperial hellscape, just stay there and keep your nose out of what other people are doing. The rest of us don’t want you around, anyway.
For the record i’m not american, that doesn’t mean i support racism against people who are. And honestly, its hard to take the opinion of someone who speaks this way:
especially when most others on this thread are speaking civilly.
Thanks for confirming my point about blatant discrimination. Baffles me how people only think that racism applies to certain countries and that if you’re racist to say, americans, its acceptable.