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Henry Edward Hardy @hhardy01

@Gargron

Is there a reason for wanting to have racially segregated servers?

Eugen @Gargron

@hhardy01 Mastodon servers are formed around communities, and communities form around interests as well as identities. There's servers about tech and servers for LBGT people, there's servers for specific cities like Bonn, there's servers for people who speak Gaelic.

Henry Edward Hardy @hhardy01

@Gargron

I support integration, not segregation.

Tremaine @Mainebot@octodon.social

@hhardy01 @gargron

It's not segregation to have a community around shared interests and experiences, doubly if it can operate as a place to speak a language that you otherwise would never have an opportunity to use.

Henry Edward Hardy @hhardy01

@Mainebot @Gargron

If people have craft-centric instances that's much different than having racially segregated instances.

Tremaine @Mainebot@octodon.social

@hhardy01 @gargron

Artists haven't experienced attempted cultural genocide, and can engage with their interests freely. First nations have historically been the target of social and cultural genocide, not to mention literal actual genocide, and continue to suffer for it. Having a community to freely engage with your culture, language, and interests is a good thing and should be encouraged.

And they would still federate with everyone, as you doubtless understand, right?

Henry Edward Hardy @hhardy01

@Mainebot @Gargron

The same could be said of many or most minority ethnic groups and conquered peoples.

Is that what you want, a constellation of racially segregated instances?

Tremaine @Mainebot@octodon.social

@hhardy01 @gargron

Are you American? That is literally the 100 level description of the cultural mosaic, and it's how minorities can retain their individual culture and beliefs while participating in the larger social system. It's how Canada tries to handle things, to varying degrees of success.

Henry Edward Hardy @hhardy01

@Mainebot @Gargron

So do I understand you correctly, are you really arguing in favor of segregation?

Are you sure about that?

And do you really think the historic treatment of First Nations by Canada is something that anyone in the world should endorse or seek to emulate?

'Canada 150 is a celebration of Indigenous genocide'

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Tremaine @Mainebot@octodon.social

@hhardy01 @gargron

Oh my god dude are you REALLY using the historic and awful violence against the first Nations people as a reason why they SHOULDNT have an online community around their interests, culture, and language??

Tremaine @Mainebot@octodon.social

@hhardy01 @gargron

Like really! Is your argument 'they should have no choice but to take the dominant culture as their own, for their own good' by way of calling an interest and culture based instance 'racial segregation.

You're a fucking racist clown

Henry Edward Hardy @hhardy01

@Mainebot @Gargron

You asked, "Is your argument 'they should have no choice but to take the dominant culture as their own, for their own good' by way of calling an interest and culture based instance 'racial segregation."

No, that is not my argument.

Insulting people you don't know and have never met by making up malicious lies about them isn't a substitute for a well-reasoned and factually supported rational, ethical, or moral argument.

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