• electrogamerman@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Hey, thats me.

    For the record, the article doesn’t mention anything about islam or Muslims, and the comments in the post neither, so the mods saw “homophobic attack” and went “better remove it because Islamophobia”

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      10 months ago

      I’m guessing the agenda is “this is definitely going to lead to a bunch of anti-islamic discussion in the comment section, and I don’t want to deal with all that (with limited mod tools)”

      I’d put more blame on reddit administration than the mod who’s trying to play the safe side to keep the sub in existence.

    • deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      To be fair, it’s in German. Entirely likely whatever automated flagging the admins used on the other post isn’t working on non-English ones.

      Still, it’s a fair thing to point out.

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        10 months ago

        If it is an automated thing then you can still file an appeal, but the mods pretty clearly acted on their own accord here.

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      10 months ago

      Different subs get different rules, unfortunately. The anarchism sub was constantly being threatened with being shut down if they didn’t self censor stuff that was fine anywhere else in Reddit, for example.

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    10 months ago

    My cultural identity is based around freedom to acknowledge reality, and this genuinely offends me to my core. Maybe acknowledging reality should be made into a religion of some sort so it can be given similar protections? What would be a good name though? Sentientness? Existence?

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    10 months ago

    Wow. From r/GayBros? Srsly?

    They were notoriously one of the more openly mysgonstic and “drop the t” of the queer subs. That’s kinda wild honestly.

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      10 months ago

      one of the more openly mysgonstic and “drop the t” of the queer subs

      I was subscribed there for years and never saw a word of that…

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        Well I don’t know what to tell you aside from seeing a lot of posts on trans subs where OP would be like

        Why do gay men hate trans women? I got told by someone in a LGBTQIA+ sub that I was just a a confused gay guy?

        And the comments would be filled with people guessing

        “This was /GayBros wasn’t it? They are like that, Gay men as a whole aren’t.”

        I won’t argue with your experience, but at minimum that sub DEFINITELY had a reputation.

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      I find it baffling how people from minority groups who have been discriminated against and excluded by the general public would so easily discriminate and exclude other groups in the same boat. If anything, I’d expect gay people to be the most sympathetic to the struggles and isolation that trans people face.

      This is like having black people who have been fighting to end segregation, but decide, “if you’re black with Somali ancestry, we don’t want you.”

    • vanquesse@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 months ago

      you may be confusing r/GayBros for r/askgaybros. Roughly the same size and spelling, but only one of them has a strong reputation for transphobia.

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    10 months ago

    Please remember things like this when you say “hate speech isn’t free speech”. I wouldn’t put it past the Republicans to claim that pro-LGBT+ or pro-choice is hate speech against Christians.

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    10 months ago

    The post says nothing about Muslims, but please proceed to blame Muslims because mod said so.

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      Literally nobody in this thread is blaming Muslims. Please stop with the knee jerk reactions.

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        I didn’t talk about people in this thread. Sorry it wasn’t clear. I’m only talking about the mod

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      Phobic in this sense means aversion to/repellant. You don’t think hydrophobic materials are afraid of water, right?

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      Comment removed: subject unfortunately too sensitive to joke about on the internet…

      Second part was: “seriously why is it called ___phobic, doesn’t make sense?”