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 @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone, 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 @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.
If we’re at the point where Blahaj gets a pass for power-tripping by using the idea that they’re a trans safe-space as a shield, even as they harass other trans users on other instances to the point of leaving the Fediverse, I’m out of this comm.
Did they harass you though? Or just ban you from blahaj?
They are on this thread accusing Pug of being a transphobe, wanting to use slurs, and a bunch of other heinous shit he has never done based on him not agreeing that dragon can be a gender.
It has also happened repeatedly in the last, but I am to lazy to look it up. Just imagine the same volume of anger and vitrol has been directed at Pug for some time on instances other than blajah for quite a while now.
They just banned him from blahaj.zone and he’s been bellyaching about it for a while.
Not me, LittleRatInAHat, whom they, Draconic Neo below playing dumb included, called a fascist and a transphobe for daring to disagree with them.
Arguing in bad faith as always eh? Just for the record I called them transphobic and fascist not because they disagree with me but because their attitude of dismissing gender identities is transphobic and is indeed reminiscent of fascist behavior. But continue arguing in bad faith and lying, it’s what you do best.
“Not because they disagreed with me, but because they disagreed with me.”
Jesus fucking Christ.