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FRANKFURT, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The suspect in custody for a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight is a 26-year-old Syrian man, authorities said early on Sunday.

  • Quittenbrot@feddit.orgEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    I would agree if the mods were to actually delete comments calling for e.g. stricter immigration laws or quicker deportations of rejected asylum seekers. This didn’t happen here and what was deleted wasn’t a contribution to discussion but generalising bs.

    Feel free to contribute to the discussion with your own points of view. Those can be controversial without violating the community rules.

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      3 months ago

      Fair enough. It’s possible I misjudged. Perhaps I could say what I really think here, after all!

      But that was really my point. Looking at the state of the discussion - most of the comments deleted, and the rest mostly on one side of the debate (the correct-thinking side, the side which is a minority in opinion polls of the general public), I didn’t feel I wanted to risk wasting my time writing a contribution that would be deleted. Or find myself attacked for being a hateful bigot, which I am not. Nor did I want to self-censor in order to avoid all that.

      This is the unhealthy democratic situation I referred to. Like it or not, it’s playing out on a small scale in this forum.

      • Quittenbrot@feddit.orgEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Perhaps I could say what I really think here, after all!

        There’s only one way to find out.

        I’m all in for disrupting bubbles here and there to prevent too strong biases from building. And sure, I guess you’ll collect a bunch of downvotes for your opinions. But as long as you stick to the rules, those comments should stay there, no matter the downvotes.

      • roboto@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        You seem to be whining a lot (typical right wing thing to do) and bring up democracy and being wrongly called a bigot and blabla, but this is an online messaging board, you don’t have to comment here.

        You’re free to go to any other place. Also, the mods don’t have to leave your comment up because freedom of speech is a thing in countries, not privately run message boards.

        You complain about not being able to express yourself yet your comments are up here. If a comment gets deleted, there’s a mod log.