Maybe I am misremembering, but I seem to recall the threads following his tattoo being revealed to have more than a few people arguing for him or at the least for neutrality around his having said tattoo for a decade and change (I also seem to recall that many of said people have subsequently been deservedly banned).

I also feel compelled to mention, my point was not to demean this instance as a whole; moreso, it was to use this instance as a favorable point of comparison to basically all of lemmy, noting that if people here took the bait then of course the much more reactionary instances would.