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What are the taboo subjects? (leminal.space)

submitted 2 days ago by infinite_ass@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The subjects that you can't even bring up without getting downvoted, banned, fired, expelled, cancelled etc.

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[–] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it though? As long as one is relatively reasonable. There's even gun communities here, even if they're pretty dead at the moment. Time for me to come up with some memes maybe.

[–] random@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I guess so, it's just that if I say I support the right to own a gun, I get downvoted in most communities

[–] KuraiWolfGaming@pawb.social 2 points 20 hours ago

Happened to me once. Nearly killed my desire to discuss firearms here on Lemmy. Not sure if this is true, but I feel that most people on Lemmy are likely anti-gun. Maybe the more liberal mindset of many people in the wider open source community has some part in it. Either way, I just want to dispel all the false claims about guns and their ownership. And some don't want to hear it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, in heavily left-wing spaces guns give people the wigglies. Even if it's not rights, the general fact we live in a world with them is something people try to memory hole.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You and I define "heavily left-wing" quite differently then. The far-left has always supported gun rights and armed struggle. It's the political centre and parts of the right that are blanket anti-gun.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 23 hours ago

We probably do. Far-left spaces are their own thing, and are almost always labeled as such since it's a tiny, insular group.