Based on concerns from both the admin team and most users here, the lemmy.ml admin team decided to add wolfballs.com to our blocklist. There is just too much reactionary content that breaks almost all the rules we have here.
It’s natural for open instances like this one to develop blocklists organically, and so far we’ve only felt it necessary to block 2 instances. If there’s any concerns about other instances that we should keep an eye on, let us know.
100% agree with this. And I made a whole thread about this kind of rhetorical move, which is to take specific subject matter, such as support for genocide, and to step back to the generality of difference of opinion. That specific move, the step back, of not defending a belief on the merits is a characteristic strategy of people seeking to insulate it from criticism at the subject matter level.
It’s kind of like forum shopping, the way that a company might bring their case to one jurisdiction rather than another, it’s always defended in the abstract, but expressed in the specific.