as this post pointed out, I was an asshole, And I took trolling too far, genocide denial or harming the community was not my intention as I was trying to find reasons to troll hexbear through my two accounts, and was spurred on by members of the community with alternative intentions that didn’t occur to me at the time, such as _cryptagion
as shown here, a message from the /0 matrix:
I do not represent Dbzer0 or AN in anyway possible, and that post doesn’t represent my views at all, it was just a shitty attempt at humour that went too far, you could consider this an apology, you have every right to hate me, but if you all have the space in your hearts to forgive me, it would be much appreciated.
Seriously, this is deeply shameful. I can’t imagine that that community would actually tolerate this kind of rhetoric.
Always remember than at least 50% of Western “anarchists” are just angry and poorly politically educated liberals who read 3 pamphlets and nodded, “yeah”. They don’t deserve the label of anarchist and are not motivated by empathy for the oppressed, but wield it selectively as a cudgel to bully those who get in the way of their personal self-actualization, which is often just talking shit and spreading rumors about things they have never investigated.
IMO that’s probably true of a lot of westerners who don’t claim to be anarchists too. Still, I can’t imagine the admins of that instance are OK with “if your have ‘authoritarian’ leaders then 27 million of you deserve to be killed by nazis”. It’s such a blatantly genocidal thing to say in service of “trolling” people on the internet.
I mean I would not be surprised. I’m not assuming they’re cool with it but it would not be very different from the “anarchists” irl that have threatened fellow lefties at actions, concocted fake abuse stories, pedaled extreme orientalism against China and wishing for war with them.
2 days later and this genocide apologetic user remains a mod of several communities at their home instance and two db0 communities.
I agree it was a terrible take. But I think it’s pretty well known by now _cryptagion likes to be a bit of a provocateur. And to be honest, you also have a few users on your instance who make similar hyperbolic statements in the other direction. So, no, I’m not planning to demod him over some inflamed rhetoric about events that happened 80+ years ago. I have removed the offending comments though and I’m satisfied he won’t poke the bears in their own den again. And perhaps most importantly, he won’t be enabling Kittyroll to get herself into trouble again.
Thanks to everyone who was so kind and forgiving to Kittyroll.
“This guy got caught grooming a young person into posting literal Nazi apologia but we’re not going to ban or even de-mod him”
Genocide apologist.
Which hexbear users are justifying genocide?
Nazis doing genocide.
Are you confident he won’t justify genocide again?
I think tolerating Nazi apologist mods is a bad look for an instance for anarchists. Apparently this is controversial.
His sentiment was that the russians got their just desserts, since they colluded with the nazis early in the war. I mean to be honest, that doesn’t seem like nazi apologia to me. And I know we won’t agree on that, but let’s agree to disagree.