Comrade Ferret

2025-08-12 20:52:53

ferret@hub.workersofthe.world

I follow #fediblock and think it's a great idea. I believe it's very important to isolate the bigoted side of fedi. But with the way things are going in my social life, with seemingly everything I say being so grossly misinterpreted or intentionally misconstrued, it's absolutely only a matter of time before someone sees me posting against Israel or the western imperialism and flagging me as an antisemite or Russian troll.

But I'm not going to stop speaking truth to power just because some liberal yankees can't view anything outside of their black and white moralistic notions. And I'm not going to stop calling out smaller pieces of problematic behaviour in the spaces I'm in. I'm just not that kind of person; it feels cowardly to me, and if I'm in a place full of friends that I can't occasionally struggle with for our mutual betterment and the benefit of the community, then I'm not really in a place full of friends. And if some imbecile does end up blocking my instance because they can't tell the difference between "Zelenskyy and the EU are not good, actually" and "Putin is, somehow" then there really is no loss.

It still just does not feel good, hence this little rant working myself through it. It doesn't even feel better than wimping out while people that I call my friends say and do shitty things and are wholly accepted for it. But I'm human, too, and I could still use some good feelings now and again.

2025-08-12 21:12:34

Serge from Babka

serge@babka.social

@ferret

As a person who calls out antisemities, while I can't speak to other issues, the "I'll be called an antisemite" issue is actually fairly easy to address: You can criticize the actions of Israel's leadership (or even the actions of the nation) without being antisemitic.

I even wrote a post about it:

https://babka.social/@serge/114670463036891746

It's very easy to not cross the lines from criticism of Israel's policies into antisemitism.