this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2024
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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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Edit: I also just got banned for apparently being a troll. Me. Not the person they believe to be a dragon though.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

Have y'all never seen assholes abuse the language of sexual preference?

We've had to deal with people insisting that fucking kids is their identity. NAMBLA was a whole thing, to the point it became a South Park episode and a running gag on the Daily Show. Over on Tumblr, people tried pushing "minor-attracted person" or MAP as just another humdrum flag under the rainbow. If any forum said 'you will not question that or imply the slightest disagreement with that,' would you suddenly respect those people?

Hell, 4chan tried pushing "super straight" to mean, only cis women count. This was a deliberate organized effort (by 4chan standards) to appropriate the shape of queer activism, specifically to shit on trans people. As if calling those bigots, bigots, was the real bigotry.

Some things are not sexual preference. Calling that gatekeeping, instead of just having a definition, is a thought-terminating cliche. Acceptability has nothing to do with it - this thing is not that thing. It's a category error.