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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've summarized the events in this thread alone at least twice.
Most of my comments have been refutations to specific arguments put forth in the context of those events.
What user was it?
https://lemmy.world/post/26286098
Do you have something more specific than your (purely objective) recounting of what happened? A link to it?
At the moment, I'm not sure I'd trust you if you told me the sky was blue
https://lemmy.world/post/26286098
It's one of the most recent threads on this comm.
it looks like you're geting angry about something third hand that another person reported as happening to them that even they're not 100% on the causative factors but strongly suspect.
There was a second ban that happened in that thread which I noted in a comment. And then, after the events of the thread, the user decided to leave the Fediverse entirely after, as a trans person, being repeatedly and insistently called a transphobe and fascist while other users backed the sentiment.
I think I need to stop trying to undestand why you are attacking people and screaming at them. Good bye.
Sorry that harassing a trans user until they leave the platform is no big deal in your eyes?
Whatever bro. You're not gonna bring them back. It hasn't been swept under the rug. And they are hardly the first person to leave the fediverse.
Just gotta move on at this point, you can't control other servers. They are going to do what they do, and you obviously disagree, as is your right, but at some point you need to accept it and look to the future. You're not accomplishing anything by continually bitching about what happened in the past.
For the record, I don't think you're a transphobe or anything of the sort. I understand your frustration and agitation, but there's really nothing more to say at this point, just let it go.
I'm literally the only person who's brought it up.
Enabling bad behavior, on the other hand, is an accomplishment, if a negative one. It happened today, by the way, which is a pretty small 'past'.
There isn't much to add at this late point, but choosing to bang this drum was the right choice. Some fucked up shit happened, and an angry terminally online cripple is the only one who fucking made a squeak.
Okay. I've just read like 50 comments from you in a couple different threads, I didn't realize this all happened today.
..... ok but isn't that post still about your burn out with blahaj?
That post is about a different user, a trans user, who was banned for comments they made on my post, which is not linked to directly.
... for the same sentiment that got you banned
You're not upset that a trans user got banned, you're upset you got yourself banned and are pointing to a trans user as a shield against anti-trans accusations
You're digging the hole deeper. Just let it go.
I'm glad others can see PJ for who he is, makes me think I'm taking crazy pills with how PJ gaslights and uses DARVO.
Your abuse of terminology without regard for meaning continues, I see.
I said that dragonfucker wasn't a gender, because dragons don't exist.
The other user was first banned for asking a question about neopronouns, and then, subsequently, opining that people could not be possums.
No, I'm upset that a trans user was harassed to the point of leaving the Fediverse.
What.
OK but you can see how this statement breaks their rules on gatekeeping the use of pronouns, right?
At no point did I make a statement that I wasn't willing to respect a user's pronouns. In fact, I explicitly stated that, despite my disagreement, I always made an effort to respect Drag's pronouns.
In any case, as I said, my ban is secondary. I was willing to let it lie with the lock. It was irritating, I bitched about it, it was over. Coming back today to find a trans user harassed off the fucking Fediverse by Blahaj? Bit more upsetting.
You respect it but you don't think it's real?
You're splitting hairs man. At the very least it should not make you this upset.
A pronoun is not a gender, and, furthermore, even if I didn't think Drag's pronouns were real, I respect things that aren't real all the time. I respect the beliefs of the religious, generally, because I expect the same respect to be afforded to me in ordinary social contexts.
Dragons aren't real. Do you think dragons are real? Because if so, there is a very serious disconnect from reality here.
I consistently used Drag's pronouns. I did not attack Drag. Drag and me have had very few interactions period, though I vaguely remember a scrap a month or two ago.
I was not telling Drag that his identity was false; if the rule is 'do not engage if you disagree with someone's gender', I wasn't breaking that rule. Drag was not there at all. What I was doing was saying that the reason I, and many others, left Blahaj was not out of transphobia, despite the accusations leveled towards everyone who left Blahaj in that thread. And I said it outside of Blahaj.
... a trans user being called transphobic and a fascist by a community with a history of that attack-dog mentality, until they swore off the Fediverse entirely, shouldn't make me upset?