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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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“General discussions about “science” itself

Be sure to also check out these other Fediverse science communities:”

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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[–] RedSeries@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

I'm just so exhausted. We can't seem to talk about gender or sex without the default thought process going "politics" or "troll". Trans existence is taboo.

EDIT: Salamander explained they were very busy and this is an honest mistake. I appreciate them and what they do and I do not think they did anything malicious whatsoever. They have apologized.

I do think my point still stands though: the topic of sex or transgender people seems to make knee-jerk reactions much more common and I wish that were not the case. It's also a really common trolling tactic to post malicious links to espouse really shitty views under the guise of "learning". I empathize with the very real fact that many posts about those topics are designed to skirt along that "just asking questions" line of trolling, so this kind of moderating is really hard to do right.

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Mac@mander.xyz 6 points 2 days ago

Put this on the Mander sidebar

People who want to avoid talking about trans people or orientation because it's "political" are revealing where they really stand in regards to political alignment.

[–] thewal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anything to do with a living being's rights become "political" because of who uses it as an answer to attempt to shut down discourse and shape it around their masked bigotry

[–] supersquirrel@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Also, if you say trans rights are political in attempt to push it out the realm of acceptable discussion, that is an offensive action, expect people like me to treat it as an act of war because it is.