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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


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I'm gonna get real with you folks, we've had way too many of these posts recently. I've been reflecting on this topic a lot the past few days. For me personally, I couldn't care less about my gender identity. But just because that's true for me, doesn't make that true for everyone.

The beauty of the fediverse is that if you don't like the way a particular instance or community is moderated you can simply choose another to hang out on, or create your own.

Blajah has made it pretty clear by now they will ban anyone who argues against the validity of xenogenders, in order to create a safe space for those folks. That's fair enough imo.

Safe spaces should be respected, and Blajah's admins/mods do not deserve abuse for creating and maintaining those spaces.

I can completely understand why Blajah users don't want to have to constantly argue with external users about the validity of their chosen identities. Bans are one way Blajah has decided to manage that problem so that their users can experience lemmy in relative peace and safety. While it is a blunt tool and I have my reservations about preemptive bans, there are not many other options for @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, other than defederation from most instances. That would be a terrible outcome for the fediverse as a whole.

In order to help Blajah to maintain their safe space, I would like to propose, if @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com agrees and community sentiment is positive:

  • that we no longer accept posts about this topic in this community; and
  • we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.

That's all folks, have at 'er.

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[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

here’s a tldr of your spectacular crashout

them: “i acknowledge that memory is fallible but if you know someone and have been introduced to your pronouns you should at least do your best and it’s not very loving to default to they/them you should at least try :)

you: “you are a piss baby and are responsible for your oppression”

you: gets banned

you: “piss baby im being so oppressed also you don’t care about genocide”

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah. That’s language policing of they/them just to get butthurt and feel oppressed. I’m not playing this game. We’re dealing with the start of a genocide in America nobody has time for this childish bullshit.

I’m dying on this hill. Fuck their feelings.

[–] nomugisan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why do you care so deeply about a physical genocide of these people while simultaneously refusing to even respect their given culture and self-governing practices?

Perhaps it could be because you don't actually care about queer/LGBT genocide and are implicitly okay with it so long as it doesn't spill over onto you? Allyship ain't a one way street, and it sounds like you're not even an ally. Sounds like you just wanna coopt their existence as labor to protect you while simultaneously plotting against them and their culture after the threat has passed. You're no comrade; the only reason you're not a bigoted fascist is because you're not übermensch. Unfuck yourself.

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com -5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I’m queer, fuck you. Fuck your feelings and fuck your pronouns too. Fuck everything about you. Call me a fascist? For holding queer people accountable for their bullshit while we have a genocide approaching us? Fuck alllllll the way off. Fucking child. Waaaah my pronounssssss go complain to the fucking concentration camp guard about being misgendered in a few years!

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 hour ago

Let's set the record straight, queerness and fascist gatekeeping are not mutually exclusive, people can be queer and act in horrible ways, look at transmedicalists, or worse, Blaire White. Being queer doesn't exclude you from being a fascist if you act like one, and it doesn't exclude you from being queerphobic either.