Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585
Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:
Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.
Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:
Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.
Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.
I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:
It's not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.
I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don't want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that's not the case in any of the communities I've been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.
PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.
The fundamental problem with saying X is better than Y is that doing so while not suggesting Z makes it clear you're advocating for it instead of advocating for something better. It's probably true that drinking piss is better than eating shit, but why do either instead of drinking water?
That's not even getting into the fact that the advocacy here is between childremoved genociders and childremoved genociders. Ultimately the liberal is getting upset that they're being called out for not giving a fuck about what happens to people who are slightly different to them or outside their economic class, all they care about is their own comfort and their own personal identity issues and they're willing to toss literally everyone else under the bus for those things.
This has some meme potential.