Thought I would share here the instance I have setup on Lemmy to promote the truth and to fight censorship online.
I have enabled federation on my instance and have added lemmy.ml communities to it. Feel free to take a look!
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Great White brotherhood are essentially a spiritual cult that speads various spiritual messages, there is nothing wrong with this group, they are NOT some white supremacist group that so many are quick to assume. Look up more information about them before you promote the idea that they are “creppy”
So apparently the admin of that instance is into “The Great White Brotherhood”, some spiritual cult and theory.
While “white” here doesn’t refer to skin color, it does reinforce the narrative: white = good and black = bad. And so even just that name as it is applied to contemporary reality, is part of an reality that enforces anti-black narratives which are related to skin color. And then “Brotherhood”, I can’t imagine that this means anything else then something about a protective force to patriarchy, …but they are white, hence they are the good guys, so it’s ok if they protect and reinforce patriarchy?
I’m not sure about the origin of that cult, but it got mentioned 18th in some book from someone called “Eckartshausen”. But the idea first got populated by Alfred Percy Sinnett and Helena Blavatsky, yes this Helena Blavatsky that also helped the german nazis to build a spirituality that defines the “german white race” as superior.
So yes the “the great white brotherhood”, is linked to white supremacy, but not of those skin-head typ, more those “New-Age” and esoteric hippies, where white-supremacy isn’t like a goal, probably more a side effect caused by the lack of anti-racists and anti-classist analysis.
Anyway, that’s also a characteristic of any major religion/cult that I’m aware of, nevertheless I think it’s important to deconstruct it.
For futher reference on their about page on their website
" So, after some thought the name The Great White Brotherhood was chosen. At the time it seemed the best name and described who this group were.
Great implied a large collection. White implied purity of soul and ambition. Brotherhood implied a group joining together with one aim.However, over time, the meanings of words change.
Today, unfortunately:
Great implies noble. White implies skin color. Brotherhood implies a group exclusively male."
Nope.oh hey, truther bullshit’s finally reached lemmy. :/
I’d really like to know about “THE truth” Spoiler: no one knows it
Don’t we all?
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Adding this to my blocklist since there’s some heavy anti-vaxx sentiment going on there.
What articles there are antivax?
Anti covid passport
There are reasons to oppose covid passport other than antivax, such as concerns about privacy and surveillance.
I disagree, but another reason to block this is because I know where this new age garbage leads to. It leads to stuff like QAnon and BS conspiracy theories about lizard people. I used to sort of be into this stuff back in college.
I agree, there is too much bad smells from this instance, starting from the arrogant title.
Freedom is different to everyone. For example I own a car, I now have the freedom to drive around, but I sacrafice that with having to pay for the car.
Or I don’t own a car, I now have the freedom of buying more clothes, but don’t have the freedom to drive around.
Its quite deep the concept of freedom. But what I was referring to when I said freedom was freedom from the censorship that goes on at places like Twitter and Facebook and Reddit etc. Is some of the censorship that goes on good? Yeah some of it is, but obviously we the users don’t have any say on what goes and what stays - its up to the platform.
Its an inherient issue in free speech, because yes I have free speech, but does that give me the right to knowingly spread misinformation? Does censoring misinformation hinder free speech? You could argue it does. No I’m not saying that my instance will spread misinformation - quite the opposite I want it to be a small group of free thinkers who are searching for the truth in the world.
In my view banning a certain set of information and not looking at the facts just creates echo chambers of similar information and so people become hooked consuming information they are familiar with and daring to go outside anything that doesn’t conform to information they already know.
Its said that for new information to be accepted we must have pigeon holes to store that information, if we don’t we can’t accept that information. So I understand why people are so quick to block my new instance.
On another note it amazes me how so many people gladly accept vaccine passports when they are most facist thing that has entered the planet. We need a pass that says we have had an experimental drug injected into us (yes its an experimental drug look it up, this isn’t me being anti vax although no doubt you will accuse me anyway) so that we can do the most basic human things such as go shopping, go to restaurants, fly to foreign countries. This is tyranny and opression on another level! You could even argue that this is not dissimilar to the segregation that happened in America with the Black folks (granted a bit different because its someones choice to get a vaccine)
That’s not antivax dumbass. Sorry for being rude. Antivax are a group of people that are against all vaccines and have really been given a bad name in the mainstream media. Being against the covid vaccine doesn’t make you anti vax because you are against just ONE vaccine. But of course people label others antivax to discredit what the they say. Its propoganda and a control mechanism.
