Of course, I don’t feel comfortable actively dissuading the students from going (they get enough pressure from parents and other staff at the school), but sometimes I wonder if I should.
It might be worth just mentioning about your perspective on the racism issue, but you're right to avoid adding pressure.
I'd be more worried about the savvy propagandists. Idiots in that thread can't even comprehend the perspectives your students would have from actually living in the PRC, so there will most likely just be a communication breakdown.
Łumało
Is this a transliteration of "wumao"?
A lot of the xinnie the pooh edits are racial caricature, ironically enough (skin tone)
BuGiJu was doing a great job of contributing constructively from what I remember. Absolute bullshit on the mods' part. StalinsMoustache was correct but a bit low-effort and antagonistic, so it was to be expected (though I obviously don't support it).
At least it was only two days for the former, but still bullshit
Do as you will, I just suggest not conflating the two in the future. I think if anything communicating a passionate disdain for people like Beehaw's lying admins (along with Democrats, Republicans, Blairites, etc) would be a positive for new user interest.
How is that hate speech? Saying you hate an admin team is not hate speech
The point there is not that the USA is bad but that it is order of magnitudes worse, which means that opposing its enemies must be considered through the lens of "Does this help the US?"
To say nothing of the incredible amount of State Department propaganda that many western so-called leftists readily accept at the same time as "disavowing" the US as "also bad". If you believe the same things about the US's enemies that the US is actively campaigning to make you believe, that is a red flag.
I don't think reunified Germany has even caught up with East Germany on trans rights, though I don't follow it that closely.
How are they leaning towards tone policing?
The rules lean towards "civility" over the actual content of what is said, which left it vulnerable to "just asking questions" types. It's being revised after a spat with a TERF who took advantage of those rules.
There's a very conscious effort from the radlib cliques to close off lemmygrad
Wow, that's pretty pathetic