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> To be hosted on our servers you have to share our principles of anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, anti-transphobia, and anti-militarism.

Those stated beliefs are shockingly close to far-leftism. So I'm guessing the same radical exclusionary zeal is also being applied here.

Also, for clarity, I'm not taking those definitions literally, but rather as dog whistles for a very specific group of people (I'm from the Portland, OR area and I'm _very_ familiar with this group that has been terrorizing my poor city).

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> very specific group of people

These are Italians. There are all possibilities the spirits are different - unless globalization (of information and communication, "of culture") had merged the two.

>I'm not taking those definitions literally

Given that fascism had quite the bloodied history in Italy (see: Mussolini), and we're talking about a group literally based in Italy, why wouldn't you? Is it because you were unaware of said history in Italy and never experienced fascism first-hand, yourself?

Why did you pick one thing on the list and ignore all of the others?

> Why did you pick one thing on the list and ignore all of the others?

Pointing out the solipsism of your take with a single "thing" was enough to demonstrate your myopic world view, I thought, however we can expound upon that further by covering them all.

Would you care to address the first "thing", before we continue on?

Very probably because he took all the others for granted and thought that only the one he got explicit about was that which some may perceive as odd.

That's a standard anti-gish-gallop tactic.

Is it really radical or exclusionary to say no racists allowed, no sexists allowed? I don't think so.

It may be (it also depends on the details that had the evaluator label the excluded) - but I think that "my property, my guests - my selected guests". With exclusions which are in fact legally mandated in some territories - but in general, especially when the service is more informal, those I could lend a toothbrush to will be part of a selected number.

Which group of people are you taking it as a dog whistle for?

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