There could be many reasons to be opposed to it, not necessarily racist ones.

You can support the rule of law - that’s not racist. You may want to support legal immigration, while closing illegal ways that commonly lead to abuse of migrants - this is straight up progressive. You may consider illegal immigrants more dangerous as they didn’t go through screening procedures - that’s up for debate, but not necessarily racist, etc. And generally, if you consider that same rules should apply to everyone, this is not racist.

However, it’s worth considering the laws of your area and the way they can affect legal migration. Going against illegal immigration and at the same time voting to complicate legal one, especially in relation to certain nationals, likely signals of racism (or, rather, ultranationalism). It is one thing to want to make the process transparent and legal and the other - to build more barriers.

I’d argue voting system is overrated.

I had quite a few comments downvoted into oblivion because my opinion was unpopular in some corners of Lemmy.

Like, go ahead and make a same political statement at .ml or .world, or come to some specific community to argue against the OP.

Or, in reverse, there are plenty of examples when hateful or wrong BS was upvoted to infinity.

I’ve seen this again and again with others, and I can confidently say voting is not a good metric for reason.

Five.

I only block people if they actively harass me online. Otherwise, I’m fine with disagreement and do not tend to rage ban.

Still, if someone follows me around Lemmy to spite on everything, I’d rather have them blocked to keep this place nicer.

Oh, and there’s Nicole in there, of course.

Nice! Some minor design alterations would be great (sentence about news by the people for the people doesn’t have to go back and forth in width; selected section should be highlighted instead of news being seemingly selected at all times), but overall, it’s a great job!

Thanks!

Sad to see all this effort has to be put into making sanctions and then into evading them.

Any TL;DR on this? Nvidia secretly ships sanctioned GPUs to China?

To clarify against what many people jump to assume: Collective Shout is not a religious organization. Its stated goal is protecting children against content they believe may help form dangerous and abusive behaviors in real life. (Needless to say, science does not seem to back these claims)

This doesn’t make them right by any means at all, but we need to understand our enemy if we want to be productive in fighting it.

Alright, you bought me with this

Amazing presentation and nice that you have a demo!

Florence + the Machine - June

Just to open it gently

Short answer? I don’t.

What if your worldview just happens to align neatly with your temperament, your social environment, or whatever gives you emotional relief?

It does. The things is, though - I happen to prominently share basic human values, such as kindness, mutual aid, cooperation, and care, all of which are normally seen as “good”.

My social environment is very median, and I do understand the regular person as I am one. I know the struggles people in my group face, and am open-minded about struggles of others outside it.

I feel relieved in the world where people are good to each other, and if that’s not what we strive for, then humanity has abandoned the very core of its own morals. When such basic things are betrayed, it’s always a sign of corruption, an attempt to justify greed, or selfishness, or something else.

Then comes the critical examination of ideas that claim to lead us there, whether they could be contradictory and leave us with a very different place than we intended, either because not enough thinking went into original concept, or because it was a con to begin with, clearly serving the corrupt interest of the few.