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What's with users of fediverse using 'Go back to reddit' as a retort to other users? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by calmblue75@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am seeing this pattern a lot lately, whenever a person disagrees strongly or expresses conservative/right wing views, they are told to go back to reddit.

You can say 'Don't bring these bullshit views to the fediverse,' or something of that sort. I am a reddit refugee myself, and part of the Reddit API exodus. Being told to go someplace I just left due to ethical reasons feels bad. So, I want to understand why it is being used as a retort. Is it really rude, or am I making a fuss out of nothing?

Edit 1: I am NOT defending conservative views, I think that they should not be given a platform in the fediverse. I am questioning how telling them to go back to reddit is a valid response.

Edit2 : Edited the the title to better represent my question.

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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Who's you people ?

[–] exaybachae@startrek.website 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

'You people' is typically defined by the attached action. 'You people' are the people who actually do that thing, whatever it is.

If you don't do it, 'you people' is not you.

If you do do it, 'you people' is you.

The point is not about 'who', it's an oppositional statement about the 'what', the action, and implies it's bad, or more importantly that the speaker doesn't approve.

Like: 'You people, always with the child raping.'

If you don't rape children, 'you people' isn't you.

But also, the speaker is implying that child raping is bad, or something they don't approve of, and something they don't do.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I see. It makes more sense this way, cheers

The way it read initially was that anyone using the word nazi did so as a silencing manoeuvre. "You people" sounds derogatory to me, I don't like it. It lumps people together and waves away individuality.