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No, in a space that's dominated by Americans, and where the base politics forum is US-only, this isn't discrimination. It's carving out a space for everyone else.
You don't get to take over every space your eyes fucking see. You're not Mufasa.
American politics in a nutshell.
Then you'd agree that c/politics should allow any political news and discussion from around the world and not just U.S. politics, correct?
It's negative discrimination - when you try to limit the overwhelming power of one group over all others. That's the reason why lots of governments have laws that mandate e.g. the minimum number of female employees etc. It is to mantain some balance.
All kinds of world news is dominated by USA relations anyway. People don't need that and to read about every school shooting and presidential fart as well.
Another topic, but related: I mod at !playstation@lemmy.world. Since basically all the ps-related news is about the PS5, I'm asking people to post news and stuff specific to PS5 into its own community. Am I discriminating against PS5 users? Perhaps, but what's the point of having two comms with 99% copypasted content, with anything else being drowned?
By your logic bathrooms are discriminatory as well. Each instance can set its own rules, if you don't like the rule then block that instance. Problem solved.
You would probably prefer the kbin world news.
Their only rules are that "US news is world news" and don't post nsfw.
You skipped the 2nd part.
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QQ all day long, I guess.
Your convenient and bad-faith lack of understanding of power imbalances doesn't make you not a giant crybaby. Go home. Y'all seem to love your isolationist imperial hellscape, just stay there and keep your nose out of what other people are doing. The rest of us don't want you around, anyway.
I suppose it's also a remnant of the reddit community. I agree it sounds weird, but it was also the result of the limitations of Reddit. I don't think you could easily create a tag for each country, and even then, it wasn't user friendly to filter them based on your preferences. So because of this, and because r/politics was already US only to begin with, it was just the easy solution to get every other news content.