Today, i couldnt upvote a post from anarchymemes@anarchist.nexus so i decided to check it out on my pc. i noticed that i was banned from the com even though i havent posted anything on the com nor the instance. i guess the reason for the ban is that i posted a meme to different comm a while ago. The meme is homophobic but i didnt know it when i was posting it. After finding out it was homophonic, i added a disclaimer to my post.

i dont think i deserved the ban, and i want to hear your thoughts.

  • lumpenproletariat ( Deceptichum@quokk.au ) English
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    9 months ago

    So you would be happy to share an instance with Nazis as long as you blocked them? Kinda sus.

    Also by OPs own admission: “ I added disclaimer because other people explained to me why it was homophobic” seems enough other people felt the same.

    OPs response when learning it was homophobic was not to remove the offending content but to add a pissweak disclaimer?

    • diffaldo ( diffaldo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) OPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      What pissweak disclaimer? I added it so that other people would know about it. When I learned the meme was homophobic the post stopped gaining traction, and users already saw it. i think acting aggressive like that wont help anyone. Kindness goes a long way.

      • lumpenproletariat ( Deceptichum@quokk.au ) English
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        9 months ago

        If enough people told you it was homophobic, why keep it up at all?

        By that stage you were clearly informed it was problematic and your response was to continue to do so but add a “disclaimer” as if that makes the behaviour now okay?

        If you want acts of kindness don’t continue to keep up homophobic content, because all that will do is get you hostility from the victims of homophobia.

        • sp3ctr4l ( sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English
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          9 months ago

          It seems to me that the significant majority of people here in this thread at least, do not think the joke is innately/inherently homophobic, and that that is more or less a way that you can read it, if you choose to, but it still works as a joke without a homophobic reading.

          And … that includes me, someone who has been … at least somewhat, depending on your criteria, victimized by actual homophobia.

          Its not as cut and dry as you seem to think, to at least personally judge them in the way you are…

          … sure, many people may have expressed their feelings one way, but many here have expressed them the other way…

          … and it seems like a considerable mod/admin overreach to ban them for it.

          Sure, people can not like it all they want, downvote, explain why they think its bad… but… banning for this seems extreme, needlessly censorious.

          And shaming them and demanding an apology thus also to me seems wholly unwarranted.