I respect the mods for taking time out of their day to take care of this website… however some of the decisions made for banning users, I feel, are too opinionated.

These are some of the bans from the modlog:

  • dessalines
  • Banned Duel
  • reason: Trolling being pro-trump telling people not to wear a mask during the pandemic.
  • AgreeableLandscape
  • Banned poopsex555 from the community lgbt
  • reason: LGBT-phobe, racial slurs promotion of suicide
  • dessalines
  • Removed Post Welcome to our Community
  • reason: No MGTOW allowed
  • dessalines
  • Removed Community mgtow
  • reason: No MGTOW allowed

The thing that bugged me the most out of this was the “pro-trump” part. What does being pro-trump have to do with anything. I don’t get it. Correct me if I’m wrong.

  • SFloss (they/them)
    41·
    4 years ago
    1. Trump is a pretty outwardly racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. President (outwardly being the key word here since all US Presidents serve the racist and imperialist institute that is the US). Someone who supports Trump even after all this outspokenness is clearly not someone who cares about marginalized communities, which the Lemmy CoC makes pretty clear it fully supports. Plus the user was downplaying the COVID pandemic in the US. That’s my take on the matter, at least. The admins may think differently.
    2. The user was clearly being homophobic and racist. They said both the f-word and the n-word. That’s clearly against the Lemmy CoC and not at all welcoming to marginalized communities. No one wants homophobes and racists around the site and banning them immediately makes this very clear.
    3. MGTOW communities have been shown time and time again to be nesting grounds for misogyny and sexism.
    4. See 3
    • stvnOPM
      1·
      4 years ago

      Plus another thing is, in the spirit of being free and open, I feel that being respectful to one another should be encouraged but not enforced, because then it’s not open anymore.

        • stvnOPM
          23·
          4 years ago

          Don’t know. But then again, free and open means everyone should be allowed to express their opinion, dumb or not. The beauty is that person who expressed that dumb opinion will be criticised for that opinion by others. The problem we have with the internet today is that it caters too many echo-chambers. That’s why I wanted to open this community… so that everyone can criticise each other’s ideas.

          I’m from a certain part of India, which is very liberal, and we have Muslims, Christians and atheists walking hand in hand; because even though they disagree on certain topics they still respect each other. There are strong communists and socialists and hardcore capitalists, there are arguments and discussions between them from time to time, but in the end, as a state, we are always together. So I feel that even America needs that too. Each side is casting each other as the worst when they don’t realise that they might have much more in common than they realise.

    • stvnOPM
      1·
      4 years ago

      You can’t say cuss words on this site?

        • stvnOPM
          12·
          4 years ago

          But bigotry means “a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.”. So that literally means that you should be able to tolerate other people’s opinions even when it’s something you don’t personally believe in. It goes both ways, right?