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Uh... Am I the only one worried that proto-slurs are being upvoted on the Fediverse?
I haven't really seen it on Lemmy as much, but Kamala losing to Trump has led to a lot of incredibly racist discussions on Reddit and Twitter. There was a very popular reddit thread the other day discussing how to best get Hispanics deported to punish them for voting for trump.
Feels like there's an increasingly strong idea that racism is ok as long as it's targeting at undesirable people, as if that's a new concept and isn't how racism has always been justified.
Body shaming people is also very common and seems to be even accepted on lemmy. Look "loud driver" = "small dick" and watch the upvotes flow.