• DMBFFF
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      -582 months ago

      I could be wrong as I’ve yet to read the Wikipedia article.

      Who did he kill: a few guys who were guilty of nothing, but their blackness made them targets of a bigot; or were they engaged in criminal activity and then threatened him when he showed up. If it’s the former, then he’s a criminal who should be prosecuted. If it’s the latter, I feel a bit freer to indulge in moral relativism.

      • @[email protected]
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        142 months ago

        I’d say the swathes of downvotes and removal of your comments by mods would make you go read about it before jumping to his defence.

        • @[email protected]
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          -52 months ago

          The removal of a comment by mods on lemmy makes me more likely to think he’s got a point, actually. I haven’t checked the modlog though, maybe it was bullshit.

          • @[email protected]
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            52 months ago

            Haven’t checked the actual mod logs but there’s a glitch w/ Boost that lets you read removed comments. One was a statement on how many down votes a comment had at a particular time.

            Another called people who downvoted him ideologues and compared them to redditors. Which I can see being a violation of rule 1, although it wasn’t targeted at any single person and the worst insult thrown was him calling people redditors.

          • @[email protected]
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            52 months ago

            That’s an odd take. His replies are basically just basking in the downvotes and admitting that he doesn’t actually have knowledge of the incident.