I’m gonna get real with you folks, we’ve had way too many of these posts recently. I’ve been reflecting on this topic a lot the past few days. For me personally, I couldn’t care less about my gender identity. But just because that’s true for me, doesn’t make that true for everyone.

The beauty of the fediverse is that if you don’t like the way a particular instance or community is moderated you can simply choose another to hang out on, or create your own.

Blajah has made it pretty clear by now they will ban anyone who argues against the validity of xenogenders, in order to create a safe space for those folks. That’s fair enough imo.

Safe spaces should be respected, and Blajah’s admins/mods do not deserve abuse for creating and maintaining those spaces.

I can completely understand why Blajah users don’t want to have to constantly argue with external users about the validity of their chosen identities. Bans are one way Blajah has decided to manage that problem so that their users can experience lemmy in relative peace and safety. While it is a blunt tool and I have my reservations about preemptive bans, there are not many other options for @[email protected], other than defederation from most instances. That would be a terrible outcome for the fediverse as a whole.

In order to help Blajah to maintain their safe space, I would like to propose, if @[email protected] agrees and community sentiment is positive:

  • that we no longer accept posts about this topic in this community; and
  • we also remove previous posts on this topic from the community.

That’s all folks, have at 'er.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    58·
    6 hours ago

    Luckily I don’t see many here (Lemmy), and if I do I am prepared to confront them in whatever way is required.

    In this comparison, where are the Nazis, here?

    Where is the threat which, if tolerated, will oppress everyone else?

    Please, enlighten me.

    And please don’t throw in my face again their (or for that matter, your own) marginalized status, it feels to me like it’s being used as some kind of gotcha or get out of jail free card, and that is disrespectful as much as most anything that has happened in this thread.

    Considering that this is all to the drumbeat of “We MUST protect marginalized people!”, it’s kind of fucking relevant.

    I am not talking directly to anyone but you, and here, you are talking to me, please keep that in mind. It’s fine to complain and always good to speak out against harm coming unwarranted or unfairly to others, but I’m talking to you about your behavior.

    My behavior being complaining something you don’t feel should be complained about, because you feel silence and complicity serves the LGBT community on Lemmy more than airing out the dirty laundry?

    • YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      55·
      5 hours ago

      Where is the threat which, if tolerated, will oppress everyone else?

      The current US admin and other actual Nazis.

      where are the Nazis, here?

      I told you I don’t see any, here in this thread, and rarely if ever on Lemmy as a whole would I describe the behavior of others as “Nazi” or as you put it “Where is the threat which, if tolerated, will oppress everyone else?”, which is apparently what you think Nazi means?

      Please, enlighten me.

      Please enlighten me as to where I said there were any here. As I recall that was you, still waiting for that link.

      My behavior being complaining something you don’t feel should be complained about

      I did not and would not say that.

      because you feel silence and complicity serves the LGBT community on Lemmy more than airing out the dirty laundry?

      Yeah, that’s clearly consistent with my behavior and what I say here and elsewhere 🙄 fuck off troll

      • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
        41·
        3 hours ago

        They’re just wanting you to call them a Nazi so it can be screenshotted and posted as proof of something elsewhere.