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"Wow Hexbears are so mean because they have pronouns in their names"
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this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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Remembering when I saw a blahaj user complaining about feeling so on edge when around hexbears because she was afraid she'd say something racist or ableist by accident and get dogpiled lmao
making people feel uncomfortable and scared to be openly racist is good actually
It's not even that bad. I called out someone this morning for misgendering my partner and they went whoops my bad not sure why I even did that. And everything is fine now. Make a mistake, be called out on it, admit your mistake, learn from it, and everything is totally fine. Shit happens nobody is perfect and nobody is expecting perfection.
Where the real dog piling happens is when someone makes a mistake, is called out on it, and doesn't have the humility to admit they made a mistake. The double and triple down occurs and that's when the dunking truly begins.
So basically anyone complaining that Hexbears make them scared are just racist/sexist/ablest/you name it ist and refuses to try not to be those things. We're totally chill if folks want to try to be better people and are willing to actually try
The double and triple down occurs
Because they didn't make a mistake, they're defending how they really think.
yeah this.
Having grown up in a white household that was becoming middle class with two parents who were pretty poor the academic success and thus negation of identity was quite important. Faults were not addressed, but ignored with neighbors but also within the family, status was to be kept up. So call outs were seen not as only attack against personhood but self itself.
Oh yeah, this is how my family is too. They'll say some asinine shit and the second you call them out about it they shut it down because "well you're being POLITICAL and we just won't agree on that so we shouldn't talk about it." It's ridiculous and one of the reasons I don't talk to my family much anymore
Politics is when minorities demand rights, and the less rights they already have, the more political it is. And if it's a minority I haven't heard of, that's trolling.
When your native language doesn't have gendered pronouns and you're afraid of misgendering by accident due to subconsciously defaulting to ”he” in English: 
I genuinely used to make that mistake even with cis people. I'd forget calling everyone it isn't acceptable lol.
Though on the internet the best idea is to double check all comments you're writing. If you make a mistake still, you can just apologize and edit it. Don't be too spooked.
I was mostly joking, but am in favor of genderless pronouns for all languages to eliminate this problem.
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no more half measures walter
she was afraid she'd say something racist or ableist by accident
Americans are such bumbling cartoon simpletons its unreal LMAO, like who else could have a problem so perfectly dumb. Imagine being like this and still demanding to feel comfortable everywhere you go.
If it's the same person who said that stuff to me, she went on to say she genders all strangers he/him by default. On the instance full of trans women. And the admin defended her.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't the same person ngl, blahaj just seems to have loads of accidental racists and bigots on it
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I just want to use my slurs you removed by mod
It's really convenient, I like when they make threads full of screenshots of all the choice dunks on them 
This is my personal favourite today 
When do we even talk about SPAM? I haven't seen it, and if someone was talking about SPAM they would probably include a CW for meat so this user could easily avoid it.
he is perhaps telling us to log off
Beautiful.
I know, this one was so good
It never fails
Genuine question, why do I keep seeing people reference “hexbears”?
Like, I know it’s a Lemmy instance, but is it more than that? Why do I keep seeing it referenced as if it’s more than just an instance?
Because we weren't federated for like three years due to differences in the fork of lemmy that hexbear runs on we developed a very different culture to the rest of fedi in isolation and now that we're federated we exist as a distinctly different bloc to the rest of lemmy (which has pretty much been overrun with default Reddit culture but a bit less right wing).
Also we're all communists and make fun of right wingers a lot so we've got a reputation for dunking on people now
I shit you not, some people are scared of being "accidentally" racist and called out around us. Now they think we're a ruthless troll army, possibly even funded by some enemy state of America/"the West". Youll know em when you read em
We're a spectre haunting the fediverse 
Hexbear is a fan instance for a podcast about being gay with your dad
We're followers of Chechen entrepreneur and famous ISIS hunter Rashid Faoud, his house sigil (he has one of those) is a bear (the national animal of Chechnya) in the general shape of a hexagon
Hexbears stand for the users of Hexbear. I've heard Hexbearian being used too.
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we are the Forbidden Fruit , and it just sooo fucking tasty ....
but be aware , if you bite .. those crying Sirens will cast you out of their "paradise of Stenography"
We're more than an instance, a world historical community - light itself 
Getting banned for bigotry on Hexbear has people asking lots of questions about bigots getting banned on Hexbear 
"wow hexbears support p00tins war in ukkkraine"
prooceeds to rant into real :hitler-detector: energy also often they have the ".ee" extension lmao
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