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  • I do have moderator experience and I am interested with working with you to make communities that aren’t safe spaces for bigots. I can help you mod [email protected] and [email protected] - but I don’t support creating a separate community to direct discussion of JK Rowling away from the Harry Potter community. That places news about HP’s toxic social side effects where it is easily ignored, and makes !hp a safe space for bigots.

    I think directing JK Rowling discussion from !jkisabigot to !harrypotter and HP memes from !hp to !jkisabigot is hilarious. People who join the Fediverse and look for a Harry Potter community will probably come to !harrypotter first and experience a sorting hat of sorts. If they’re not a bigot, and they learn that actual Harry Potter literature discussion happens in !jkisabigot, and !harrypotter is for the latest news on JK Rowling’s hate campaigns, they’ll get the joke. If they endorse JK Rowling’s ideology, it will send the not so subtle message that maybe the Fediverse isn’t for them.



  • All of Lemmy doesn’t need to constantly hear about JK Rowling and her evil. People who are supporting her directly need to know.

    It sounds like you feel you’re the victim because you’re concerned you won’t be able to enjoy Harry Potter on Lemmy without being reminded that your enjoyment is ruining the lives of others. Would you say that’s accurate?

    it derails the actual focus of the community.

    What is the actual focus of the community? I’ve already suggested creating another community that explicitly acknowledges how bad JK Rowling is, and posting memes there. So it sounds like you’re saying the actual focus of the community is enjoying Harry Potter along with people who explicitly support JK Rowling’s ongoing campaign to harm trans people, while censoring people who support human rights. Why can’t you enjoy Harry Potter memes in an alternate community called !jkisabigot or something similar?










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    On Reddit, the Joe Rogan subreddit organically developed into a forum for trashing Joe Rogan. I think it’s embarrassing that the most popular JK Rowling community on the Fediverse isn’t dedicated to exclusively reporting on her quest to dehumanize and erase trans people.

    There are plenty of places where discussion of her abhorrent views are either suppressed, or allowed to exist alongside fun memes about the work that funds her vendetta against women. If there is any uplifting moral message contained in those books, then the primary community for Harry Potter on the Fediverse should exist to lead a revolt against the author.

    June is Pride month, and Rowling has announced her intention to use her fortune to escalate attacks on trans people. I’m surprised there are people who think we should be discussing anything else here but that. I know people love sharing uplifting HP memes, maybe a separate community can be created for that purpose. We could call it !slytherinmemes or !umbridgesoffice to highlight how evil it is to continue to fund her work, or !jkrownlingisatransphobe or !jkrowlingisabigot to play on the ironic meme common in community namespaces like /r/marijuanaenthusiasts being about arboriculture while /r/trees is about marijuana.
























  • Your uncle is correct in that work isn’t given to inmates for their benefit or edification. It’s to line the pockets of those in charge. If the state wanted prisoners to more easily ‘re-integrate’ into society, they would let them form unions and pay them a decent wage for their labor. Instead, they’ll either abuse their authority to get the inmates to work for peanuts and pocket the difference, or they’ll pass the work to one of their cronies.

    One of the roles of prison labor is to undermine organized labor outside of the prison. Prisoners are often employed outside of the prison in addition to doing work to maintain the prison. By forcing them to compete for jobs with slaves, it undermines non-incarcerated laborers’ bargaining power and pressures them to accept conditions closer to incarceration.

    I don’t blame your uncle for his position; life in prison is extremely tedious, and the quality of what you’re given makes commissary essential. People outside need to organize with people inside to create a situation that benefits both.




  • ‘Minarchism’ in my book is a term invented by fascist and capitalist entryists, and people who use it to gatekeep anarchism should be on the other side of the gate.

    They don’t need to be ‘appointed’ by a king or politician in order to exist. Committees are one of the essential organs of actual right-now functioning real-life working large-scale anarchist groups. When done well, they include the voices of all of the significant stakeholders in a decision, and efficiently discover solutions that achieve the goal while respecting the autonomy and interests of all of the participants.

    Don’t @ me, but definitely reply to @[email protected] with the disemboweled anarchism you propose as an alternative.