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Is hate speech against religious people acceptable? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by kher@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world
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After the ban of the c/christians community for having a rule against LGBTQ+ content. I wonder where is the actual line of what is allowed and what is not on this instance. (https://lemmy.world/post/1762563)

There are plenty of instances allowing hate speech against religious people. Looking through them I can see how they can be pretty offensive for someone who was brought up religious.

For example !atheistmemes@lemmy.world.

From their description

No Pro-Religious or Anti-Atheist Content.

Some of the content:

To clarify, I do not feel offended, as I am in no capacity religious and I am an atheist also. I also do not ask for the removal of that community as I don't believe neither of the two should be removed.

But going through the content on atheistmemes the content there is far worse and more offending than it was on c/christians. While on c/christians only the rules where marginally breaking the rules, while there were no content that was in violation. This community in my opinion does both.

Allowing anti religion community while banning the pro religion one is creating a real deficit of different opinions here.

What is your opinion? Do you think that one should be allowed while the other not and why?

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[–] fkn@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (15 children)

It is absolutely shocking to me the number of "I am an atheist but..." posts with crazy false equivalence arguments I have seen in the past several weeks on Lemmy.

[–] kher@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Care to explain why is it a false equivalence?

And yes people can still be atheists but stand for the right of freedom of religious expression. The same way someone who is straight can stand for the right of free sexual orientation.

[–] fkn@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One is a community of people saying "these people should be killed" the other is "these ideas are stupid". You didn't link anything from atheist memes that advocates the death of religious people.

[–] kher@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

But you are just assuming, you have no proof of this kind of posts on c/christians. They were not banned because of content, but because of not allowing pro LGBTQ+ content. Please read the linked post first. (https://lemmy.world/post/1762563)

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