Do as you will, I just suggest not conflating the two in the future. I think if anything communicating a passionate disdain for people like Beehaw’s lying admins (along with Democrats, Republicans, Blairites, etc) would be a positive for new user interest.

How is that hate speech? Saying you hate an admin team is not hate speech

How are they leaning towards tone policing?

The rules lean towards “civility” over the actual content of what is said, which left it vulnerable to “just asking questions” types. It’s being revised after a spat with a TERF who took advantage of those rules.

You know, I agree that he shouldn’t have collaborated with America’s foreign policy following the sino-soviet split, but I don’t think that even puts him as a major candidate in the running.

Edit: He also really should have given the sparrow thing a test run, and there are other criticisms to make, but these are still lesser than the original one. There was bad theory and bad practice in the Cultural Revolution, but overwhelmingly its biggest problem was endangering the revolution that Mao led to establish the PRC in the first place, something for which he deserves credit on account of poverty reduction, drastic increase in life expectancy, land-redistribution, etc. Oh yeah, and the whole “opposing Japanese and British colonialism” thing, since the KMT rolled over for that, but hopefully that goes without saying.

A lot of those insinuations come from neoliberals who are mad that neoliberalism isn’t given privileged treatment there like it is on Reddit.