I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of ‘hitlerites’

I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?

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    9 hours ago

    “What if 4chan was communist instead of neonazi”

    Not quite, that would be /leftypol/

    wiki page / KnowYourMeme


    Better politics.

    This reminds me of one of their site banners:

    screenshot of a chan imageboard post with the text "What the fuck? Why does /pol/ have one or two reading lists and /leftypol/ has tons?"

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      Hexbear has its origins on Reddit’s ChapoTrapHouse which I’m pretty sure has a connection to leftypol in its history.

      But sure

      My point is:

      Hexbear = Jerkoffs, except class conscious

      Would be nice if they weren’t jerkoffs but hey, at least they have class consciousness.

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        This analysis isn’t quite accurate. On the whole, Hexbear is actually one of the kindest and coolest and community-minded places I’ve ever been on the internet. But I’d agree there’s an issue of a portion of users who happily get overly aggro if you annoy them (and being allowed to get away with it).