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-5 points

18 days ago

Can’t say that I share the sentiment of those people. I haven’t blocked anyone in my entire life.

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femtech@midwest.social

7 points

18 days ago

Are you a white cis male?

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Tundra@lemmy.ml

2 points

17 days ago

why does race, sexual orientation & gender have to be brought up?

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gaael@lemm.ee

5 points

17 days ago

Because you are usually subjected to a lot less abuse when you’re a ciswhitehetmale in a NW country.
This usually leads to a different need for safe spaces, like-minded communities and blocking people than oppressed groups.

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0 points

17 days ago

I’m a minority (autism), I don’t need a safe space.

I need people to stop being authoritarian and communicate with eachother.

If only minorities were authoritarian, then there would be no issue. Since they’d be just a minority. It wouldn’t be noticed.

It’s clearly the majority that deal the blow. Logical, right?

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gaael@lemm.ee

1 point

16 days ago

I’m a minority (autism), I don’t need a safe space.

Thank you for sharing your personnal experience. I am glad that your personnality and life experience don’t make you feel the need for a safe space, that’s uplifting.

This being said, other people from minorities seem to have a different viewpoint and consider safe spaces are important/necessary. The fact that some individuals don’t need one doesn’t negate the need (and right) of others individual to create these safe spaces.

I need people to stop being authoritarian and communicate with eachother.

That’s great, but it’s also within peoples’ rights to choose who they want to communicate with and to filter that by interest, values or other factors.
I find it important that depending on my energy levels and my mental health I can choose who I engage with.

If only minorities were authoritarian, then there would be no issue. Since they’d be just a minority. It wouldn’t be noticed.I.
t’s clearly the majority that deal the blow. Logical, right?

I’m not sure I understand what you mean there, could you explain a bit more?

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0 points

16 days ago

The latter part. Minorities do not have power. They just do not have that. So their actions are barely noticed.

If only minorities were authoritarian and block communication channels, then nobody would notice it. It would be a rounding error.

This is because they are only a small amount of people.

Women aren’t a minority, they are half the population. But according to many, they are a minority. This is wrong.

If women want a safe space from men (they do, female only subreddits ban more than male only subreddits) then that’s fine, but it’s not because they are a minority.

In this day and age everyone feels like a minority and likely are minorities. But that’s only a part of them.

I’m autistic (minority). I’m male (equal), I’m European (majority on this app, minority in the world).

Okay now… if I were to be a marxist leninist (minority in the western countries) so I create a safe space.

Okay but we have dozens of political ideologies. They all are pretty much a minority then. Definitely because they vary across countries.

Giving each ideology a safe space because they are “a minority” neutralises eachother. They all are.

In reality, just like the way a government gets formed. People need to communicate and compromise.

Blocking communication stops growth, and hence I do not like this culture of bubbles/echo chambers on Lemmy.

Got no clue how to alter that, or if there’s social media that doesn’t create echo chambers by blocking those that do not fit in there.

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Mr Poletski@feddit.uk

1 point

17 days ago

It’s the modern day equivelant of a/s/l

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0 points

18 days ago

yep, my family has been living here in Belgium for a very long time.

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