Rep. Eli Crane used the derogatory phrase in describing his proposed amendment to a military bill. Democratic Rep. Joyce Beatty asked that his words be stricken from the record.

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    1 year ago

    The fact that this racist-at-best, woefully-ignorant-at-worst comment is at +40 votes right now is pretty telling to me. Guess the userbase of lemmy.world is pretty bigoted.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know. I mean it is a relevant comment. Is Lemmy supposed to be like Reddit where you only upvote relevant content that contributes to the conversation and downvote irrelevant comments, trolling, etc. It doesn’t mean up/downvote on whether or not you agree. So in that case it’s a matter of interpretation. If you think this person really doesn’t know, then it’s relevant. If you think they’re trolling, then downvote. But even if they are racist, it does contribute that to the conversation and allow for education. Just my opinion on the workings of the community, but that’s how a lot of communities worked in Reddit and was the originally intended functionality if not how it was always used.

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      1 year ago

      tbf, it’s definitely a thing that is genuinely being discussed about in a non-“why can’t I just say the slur” way

      edit: and by “discussed” I mean people who aren’t white discussing it

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        lol that’s now how I meant it but I can see how it could be interpreted that way. I meant that the comment is clearly racist so “at worst” meaning like the OP didn’t MEAN to say something super racist but now everyone thinks they’re racist.

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        This is going to be natural with the federated nature of Lemmy, some instances are going to enable far right rhetoric. Block instances, communities and users you dislike. You have more power here to adjust your feed than Reddit.