yeah that’s usually how extremists manage to crawl their way into movements. They hijack the movement and use specific dog whistles to identify each other while normalising extremism. It’s why communities gotta be vigilant when these dog-whistles, such as zio, pop up.

No, no – Specifically “zio”

Not Zionism – “Zio”

He was temp-banned for using Zio, which is a term neo-nazis and white supremacists use. I offered him a chance that he wasn’t aware of the word, but he instead doubled down and referred to David Duke as “some guy”

Are you telling on yourself? I asked you to stop using Zio because nazis specifically use it.

There are no nazis in my comm and they’re not allowed either. I was banned from Voat

That’s not at all true

It is Hexbear level horseshit. Dbzer0 is federated with Hexbear and most of these users come from Hexbear or have Hexbear alts

You got banned for specifically using “Zio” – A term coined by David Duke. I asked you to use a different phrase instead, such as zionist, zionazi or anything else, but you insisted on using Zio.

Your ban has expired by now anyway, I don’t dish out perm-bans unless it’s absolutely neccessary

Wikipedia certainly isn’t wrong, the Fediverse is filled with so much political extremism, made worse by the Tankie Developers

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