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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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And is full of news articles explaining science, having a biologist explain the science of sex biology is not a right fight for a general science community.

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[–] thewal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This is a terrible argument if at all, its basically letting bigotry shape the discourse, sure its better to wait official statement on why this happened but "didnt want to deal with comments section" isnt an argument, just plainly whitewashing behavior

[–] Souvenir@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not wanting to platform bigotry is a perfectly valid argument.

As mentioned elsewhere, my initial reaction was BPR which includes over-reactions in charged situations, which the whole trans thing has become thanks to online bigots.

Mod should have locked down the comment section with an explanation why, but seems likely they overreacted. It happens.

But the post is visible for me, even on Science@mander.xyz. Maybe someone else posted it, and the mod let that one stay.

e: it appears someone else posted the same article on mander.xyz. It'll be interesting to see if the mod deletes that too, then it would be damning.