c/196 had a mod who did something like defederate from an instance without asking the users (I'll see if I can find it) and everyone said adios
e: https://sh.itjust.works/post/31368210
Basically users disagreed with the mods about moving the comm to lemmy.world and made a new community even on the same instance, c/onehundredninetysix
A lot resigned because people were mad over the ban. The analogy would be more like a politician resigns after everyone complains about their policy.
Crazy how a mod tried this on lemmy and everyone just went to a new instance.
I was hoping to get you to actually engage with a hypothetical but it seems that's impossible. I also see more than skin color at a glance, but again you're not engaging with the hypothetical since I said they are identical other than skin color, but sure.
Ok say you had to let someone watch your dog or it will starve or get very sick from overeating and all your friends/family/acquaintances are out of town, and there was a medical emergency that the ambulance is just about ready to leave, and you were wearing headphones so you didn't notice anything was wrong until the people in the ambulance walked in through the door someone else had opened for them. You have 10 seconds before the ambulance leaves with your loved one, and have to decide from 2 onlookers. One person is white and one is black. That is the only difference you can gather as you are quickly walking by, and you don't have time to get a good look at either of them. You can only choose one because your landlord's policy only allows you to have 1 person who isn't you have a key to your apartment. Which do you choose?
I don't disagree, but it's like asking a woman who she would rather be alone with, an unknown man or an unknown woman. There's also familiarity bias and having more in common. I don't think I have to be racist or prejudice to know there will in general be less friction with a white dude vs a black dude, because that's just most people around me. I still try and ignore that because I know it's limiting my experiences, but there are good reasons that I wouldn't ascribe purely to prejudice.
Also for the wheelchair example, I again think there are reasons for this. For the person in the wheelchair you often don't know why, did they have a stroke and can't speak? Are they ill? Or did they just hurt their leg? I'm not saying people wouldn't be biased against the disabled even if that weren't true, but a lot of these have legitimate reasons that aren't just prejudice (maybe the dictionary definition but not irrational prejudice).
I actually had to realize this because I kept making "good enough" solutions that I told myself I would change later and then never did, until I got so frustrated that it made me stop working on it. Good enough is a big problem if it's good enough that you never really need to change it.
I already feel pretty unsafe biking next to cars, biking with added weight would feel extremely dangerous. We need to make driving unpleasant and riding a bike the "easy" option.
I have an autistic friend with the same opinion and I told him he was retar-wait...
The N word is based off negro which is just black. Calling someone black isn't an insult so the only connotation would be to be racist. Retard is based on slow and I would want to call someone slow and imply what they're saying is moronic, so it literally fits perfectly. That said it's still used as a slur pretty often and it's purely a negative word so I still don't really use it.
The article is really confusing, it says they posted you win we resign but also that the head mod kicked everyone. Maybe the first part was the mods bring facetious?