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For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.

They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nobody banned him because he said "dude". You're only trying to pretend that because you refuse to admit you're wrong. They banned him because he said people who consider the word "dude" to be a gendered term need to "get over it". This is not hard to understand.

[–] FabledAepitaph 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He specifically said in another comment that he would stop if asked. If Lemmy users were punished and held responsible for all these random off-comments taken out of context, half of the user base would be in prison right now, and the other half would be on a watch list for some of the shit I've seen people say. Stop choosing to be outraged for the fun of it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

He said, verbatim,

the exclamation of ' DUDE!' has no gender connotations to me. And if someone is offended... get over it, dude

They don't want that mentality in a trans community (shocking) so they preemptively banned him. Nobody is punishing him, he only thinks that because he feels uncomfortable about having to face his own internalized transphobia.