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Tip of the day: When an admin of an instance adivses you not to break the Terms of Service… consider refraining from doing so.

Good-bye.

Do not use ableist slurs on Lemmy.World.

You main acount had a tempban. That just got escalated to a permanent ban. Nice.

It’s not a problem if it’s an occasional thing, and it looks to me like it’s just an occasional thing. :)

Nicely done.

You got me completely. I’ve been banning spammers all day (I’m working on some mod tools that help identify some that fell through the cracks and should help us respond to reports better going forward), so my first reading was “Spammer?” lol.

Thank you for a very much needed laugh!

I did a little googling (and recommend others do instead of just upvoting/downvoting on vibes), and it appears that a former employee claimed to have faced discrimination after coming out as trans. Whether that’s enough for someone to be bothered is a choice for them to make.

I’m personally not sure that signing on to the new HP is itself a very clear indicator. I will not support JKR’s projects these days, and for me, I have stopped consuming Harry Potter completely. I’m just saying that it can be a hard decsion where to draw a line and what lines not to cross.

I don’t even know where to begin to try and guess where you think you get that from.

Technically, one of the things that makes it worse - some of the folks I used to work with still had MR as their official medical diagnosis - less than a decade ago, and since most of them were young enough to probably be still alive, they still have it.

I suggest using the power of your free speech to walk up in person too anyone of color and using any of those words to their face and see how your “free speech” goes.

Furthermore, a little reasearch on what “free speech” means and doesn’t mean might be in order.

What I find interesting is that so many people seem to want to stand up on the side of bigotry and demand their “right” to be a bigot and use bigoted language. I’m not sure that’s really a great look.

Perhaps you misunderstand, so let’s go back to the basics.

Lemmy.World TOS prohibits the use of, among other things, ableist slurs.

If you use such slurs, expect to face consequences.

I am a Lemmy admin, and part of what I do is enforce the TOS when I see violations.

We may choose to simply remove rule-breaking comments, or hand out temp-bans or perma-bans to those that can’t seem to follow the rules.

If you cannot follow the rules, I suppose you will eventually find out the consequences for yourself.

So ultimately, I don’t care if you agree with the TOS or not. Only whether you follow them.

I don’t understand why so many people here are standing up on the side of bigotry. I really don’t. It makes me sad.

If it takes me to make you empathetic towards the victims of those ableist slurs… I don’t know what to tell ya. I don’t think it’s a good look, though.

That’s the idiotic take you chose to run with? Fuck fascism.

But fuck ableist slurs. You shouldn’t attack fascism using slurs that harm real people. And even if you disagree, ableist slurs are against the rules.

It’s like getting pulled over for speeding on your way to a protest and accuding the cop of supporting fascism (which might be a fair comparison in that case, sure, I realise this isn’t a perfect analogy).

Call Patel any number of delightful terms that point out his fascism, inhumanity, stupidity, idiocy - whatever you’d like. But don’t be ableist, transphobic, homophobix, racist, misogynist et cetera when you do so.

Is it that difficult?

So? Is ableism by someone on the spectrum supposed to be acceptable? Do I need to find a person who is black to give me permission to use the N word? Maybe I should find a woman to give me permission to be misogynist?

Do you watch police brutality and think, “THIN BLUE LINE! HUAH!!!”? Let’s discuss other stupid things. Or maybe you might stop standing up for bigotry.

If you don’t like the rules, don’t use the site.

Well, this is simply incorrect. I ran across this thread and reported several comments, bringing it to the attention of the moderators, who took action.

And you are free to have yourr opinions, but again, I suggest complying with the Lemmy.world TOS. If you think the TOS is asinine, that’s fine - as long as you comply with them.

Please be cautious here. You have crossed a line that, as a mod, I would remove your comments for incivility and personal attacks. I allow such things to go further when they are directed at myself, but I am certainly done conversing with you. But I think you’ve made the kind of person you are quite clear.

You can project all you like. I don’t care. I do think standing up for bigotry is not a good look for you, but that’s your call to make.

But you will face consequences if you break the TOS.

pat yourself on the back, you’re antibullying saviour!

Do you pat yourself on the back for standing up against bigotry? I would think it’s the human thing to do.