If they can learn more to live in the world, like to have discussions politely, then they can learn much over the years.
While if they must remain constrained to the spaces that will tolerate them... then they may, probably even, not.
It all comes to naught, in the end.:-P
Well you can't just throw down something like that... and not provide the receipt!?
Even if that were true - and it's objectively not - sinking to that level does nobody any good.
Take care of yourself, and don't worry overmuch about people on the internet being wrong, would be my take:-). (Also, they cannot ban you here - hexbear.net is an entire instance, and BestOfLemmy is not a community that resides on it, but rather Lemmy.World)
It is a good one. I mean, there are definitely situations where being not-nice is required, e.g. police dealing with a shooting spree in-progress that shows no sign of abating on its own, but as a whole, I do think society would progress much more smoothly if people were to live by that. (and by "that" I mean logic as a whole, of which this is only one tiny piece:-P)
Do you mean himself? Indeed he is the only one who can control the situation, e.g. by blocking them. On the other hand, OP (of the OP I mean, not the commenter promoted here) was a new member of Lemmy, so was shocked to see this behavior, and wanted reassurance and a community of like-minded people to stand with them.
I would argue that the belief of communism is besides the point here - even if certain people really truly did know better than certain other people, about whatever matter, then that is all the more reason to be particularly convincing with sound argumentation espousing rational behavior, rather than trolling and brigading and banning tactics. And if not... then they may feel as free as they like to complain, as people who refuse to do otherwise go ahead and block them, and warn others about what they are likely to encounter if they go into those echo chambers.
I see it as a call for people to be able to discuss things calmly and rationally. Certain facts within the statement e.g. "get called an idiot shitlib and told to read some theory" are definitely emotionally provocative (as are terms such as "everything" and "nothing"), but indeed that happens sometimes, i.e. everything is relative.
The big 3 - lemmgrad.ml, hexbear.net, and lemmy.ml, and now reportedly add midwest.social as far as this matter is concerned (though that one still differs in other matters, as regardless of the behavior of its admins, most users seem to just see the word "midwest" and think "I'm kind-of left-leaning myself so...") - are extremely well-known for banning people at the drop of a hat. Much (exactly) like conservatives, authoritarianism is totally okay, so long as it occurs by their preferred, blessed places/people - it is only those "other" people, especially those who don't agree hard enough, that derive the most ire from them.
This comes at the risk of being REALLY disappointed... 😝
Your instance allows it, so you probably blocked them, at which point it won't show up on your instance using your account.
Or something weird with your chosen app.
Either way you can use the webpage interface to view it directly in a browser if you want, entirely anonymously (though to comment you'd need to unblock them first).