Important context: This was an instance of a crowd crush caused by poor crowd control.

edit: action has now been taken against the offending comment :)

(also some of you guys in the comments here have been yoinked by mods too… just be nice? this post was not an invitation to test out your boundaries)

by opening this spoiler you acknowledge that brigading and harrassment are against the rules

link to post in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/10965360

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
    121·
    6 months ago

    …and that feels equivalent to me.

    wholeheartedly agree, and i would call it out just as i did here. :) either way, such a statement is quite offensive and irresponsible behavior to come from a leader of the “world news” community.

    • x4740N@lemm.ee
      1·
      6 months ago

      If I recall world news was very toxic and racist on reddit

      I recall when stuff about Japan came up on world news it was always misinformed and racist views on how Japan is bad and when people tried to refute they where attacked

      It does come from countries that do have an anti-Japan setiment and then spreads to common internet users

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Japanese_sentiment

      And users online resorted to mentioning the “Tiananmen Square Massacre” to stop the trolls from china