likely in response to my comments on the beehaw post, which i linked to (hopefully im doing this right?). apparently, calling people you dont know for the first time āthey/themā before being told their pronouns is āmisgenderingā. absurd. this kind of attitude threatens the larger LGBTQ community and is partially why cishets hate us after we won so much progress back in the 00s and 10s.
im a queer person. im neurodivergent. this shit is so goddamn fucking annoying, especially as an older queer who got physically assaulted on a near daily basis for being queer in the 90s. the kids today get their panties in a twist over being supposedly āmisgenderedā by someone calling them gender neutral pronouns before being corrected. narcissistic victimhood bullshit.
anyways, now banned from one of my favorite instances. meanwhile in the US theyre planning on hunting us. but yeah, lets ban fellow queers over their view that people who get mad about being āmisgenderedā when they arent (cis people are also referred to as āthey/themā before further context in a conversation with a stranger) are just attention seeking brats that threaten the larger movement. its so obvious to me that the brats who find reason to be offended over innocent pronoun use never faced real adversity, like getting repeatedly physically beaten.
edit - the best part of all of this is i faced no moderation from beehaw and all of my comments are +1 or higher. power tripping oversensitive neurodivergent hating bastard of a mod over at blahaj IMO.
edit 2 - did this wrong. heres a link to the post i think got me banned from blahaj and a screenshot about it https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/37659465
Edit 3 - apparently I did nothing wrong until I made my thoughts known about how the pronoun police fucked over the larger LGBTQ community as our rights are backsliding in America. Yall are gonna whine about being misgendered to the concentration camp guards at the rate weāre going. God forbid I be angry that while queers were busy fighting over pronouns our adversaries stuffed the courts, stuffed the school boards, couped the government, and are installing a fascist dictatorship. When I say that these fucking toddlers are going to learn what real oppression tastes like, thatās what I mean. Itās not that I want us to be hurt or oppressed (as the dog piling idiots have interpreted), itās that the younger generation is weak as hell and lost the fucking plot in the fight for our rights. I grew up getting beaten in the streets for being queer only for these kids to claim their pronouns not being mind-read is oppression!
The revolutionaries of the past would be disgusted with you. Speaking truth to power is one of the common heroic actions of the left: Standing up for people who are being abused, even when the people doing it are getting away with it, and demanding and enforcing that no one talk about it. Shame on you for coming down on the side of the abuser.
Propaganda frameworks like the one youāve absorbed often include redefining common words and concepts in ways that support the desired conclusions, as youāre doing with ātrollingā and āpeople who have already made their minds up.ā Itās one of the reasons a certain contingent on Lemmy frequently will tell the person theyāre talking to, what the person theyāre talking to believes and how they behave. They need to enforce a certain framework for the conversation, in which what theyāre doing makes sense, because taking it from first principles will cause them to see it in an āundesirableā light.
I do agree with you trying to have the conversation with that contingent is usually pointless. Iām actually happy to back up anything I am saying, try to open your eyes if you want to insist that the Chinese governmentās version of events is trustworthy, but I doubt youāre interested and I wonāt try to make the attempt if you donāt want it.
Any community will ban users if they get an influx of spammy low effort comments that are deliberately trying to irk the mods and the community as a whole. But itās only bad when Lemmy.ml does it huh?
Go speak truth to power on the streets, the Lemmy.ml mods arenāt āthe powerā, just some random people running their own instance.
Way to assume what my opinion of the Chinese government is. I donāt recall saying anything about it.
Edit 2: Actually, I can tell you exactly what happens when someone comes in and makes this kind of āspammy low effortā attempt at talking about the Uyghurs on lemmy.ml, because Iāve done it. I spent about half a day talking back and forth with someone who was very, very insistently insisting to me that there was no genocide in Xinjiang, and the UN had proved it. To their credit, nobody removed anything I had to say, which I was a little surprised by. The post was deleted by its creator some time later, so I canāt link to it, which is a shame because the whole exchange was pretty lengthy and interesting, and apparently consenting on both sides. Iāll take out a random excerpt of the whole conversation here:
Edit: Also, this part deserves a real response:
Very true. I also think participating on the internet is probably not helping much of anything, in the current crisis, in comparison with actually getting out and doing something.
But still, if we are going to talk about internet stuff, big actions start from little actions. The same people who are swearing that they understand the way to make real progress, and everything needs to be reorganized to match their theories in order to fix the world, have in my view already gone askew and started abusing the tiny amount of power they currently have, and created a little āThe Simsā version of a dystopian world which I want no part of. I think thatās relevant to point out. And, which theory weāre going to use and how weāre all going to understand the world, including how we talk about it on the internet, absolutely has power in the real world in the aggregate. C.f. this most recent US election.
Top tier hypocrisy pal.