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It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

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[โ€“] Kuori@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the "authoritarians" are why we have an actual safe space for trans people here

if they don't like it they should feel free to go make their own trans space without our level of moderation and see how it goes

[โ€“] AutomatedPossum@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

This, the reason i feel safer here than in most exclusively trans spaces is that the mods ban transphobes, misogynists and homophobes instead of getting into arguments why their comment wasn't hatespeechy enough and that they do not tone police marginalized people. In other places, the mods are fuckin liberals who value the free speech of my opressors over my safety and use civility fetishism to silence me. They uphold the violent, exclusionary, status quo-cementing logic of the marketplace of ideas, and will respect the interests of a cis and assimilationist majority over the safety needs of the most marginalized minorities within a community even though these minorities are most in need of protection.

Hexbear is a safer speace precisely because it is deeply and utterly illiberal.