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What's with users of fediverse using 'Go back to reddit' as a retort to other users? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by calmblue75@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I am seeing this pattern a lot lately, whenever a person disagrees strongly or expresses conservative/right wing views, they are told to go back to reddit.

You can say 'Don't bring these bullshit views to the fediverse,' or something of that sort. I am a reddit refugee myself, and part of the Reddit API exodus. Being told to go someplace I just left due to ethical reasons feels bad. So, I want to understand why it is being used as a retort. Is it really rude, or am I making a fuss out of nothing?

Edit 1: I am NOT defending conservative views, I think that they should not be given a platform in the fediverse. I am questioning how telling them to go back to reddit is a valid response.

Edit2 : Edited the the title to better represent my question.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Redditors self-police their speech to fall in the window of acceptable debate. They are deeply brainwashed but have no idea of it because Reddit moderators ban anything not deemed "acceptable speech" by their media overlords. Hence they will spam the term "tankie" if someone for example tells them that killing the Iranian leader will only end up like killing Saddam in Iraq.

In the wise words of pedo-Zionist:

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Somehow, it's way easier to get banned here than over there, though.

[–] sveltecider@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Remember when CTH was banned for saying “kill slave owners”?

[–] Daxelman@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Ooooh I wanna try this.

Kill Slave Owners.

Murder Slave Owner.

Absolutely turbo murder kill slave owners in real life no cap.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not if you know the forbidden Reddit terms. Try saying anything anti-Zionist on mainstream Reddit subs and you are banned in half a second by automated bots.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -2 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

That actually got me a temp ban here once, as well.

It was even a nuanced "both sides are human" take, not Hamas is awesome. I know, I wasn't expecting it either.

[–] QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 hours ago

~~"Nuanced"~~ Both sidesing in the face of a genocide? Condemning the oppressors and oppressed in equal measure? Do you not see the issue with that?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 hours ago

not Hamas is awesome

Should have been perma