I know there was some schism and moving of instances, but beyond that I can’t deduce what happened/is happening.

  • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    The recent position of the admins was that refusing to acknowledge the existence of dragons was no longer welcome on Blahaj.

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      Serious question. Why not just block the fucker of dragons and move on? That’s what I did months ago and it has not negatively affected me at all.

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        Honestly, at the time, I hadn’t interacted with Drag at all for months, and Drag had been banned from 196 by then anyway, and 196 was the vast majority of my Blahaj activity. For me, it was just that I didn’t feel comfortable staying in an instance that was going to hand out bans and remove comments to ensure the existence of dragons wasn’t questioned. I ‘got’ the underlying logic of it, but didn’t feel comfortable sticking around for an instance that was going to go to bat for someone who literally and verbatim repeated the old conservative “Attack Helicopter” canard.

        This thread is the first time I’ve interacted with Drag since, I believe.

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          literally and verbatim repeated the old conservative “Attack Helicopter” canard.

          That user literally said that you’re only offended by someone making that exact mockery of transgender people because you hate trans people.

          Could you imagine someone in blackface saying people calling them out is racist? That you just hate people pretending to be black because you hate black people? It’s infuriating. And getting banned for saying blackface is bad? Even more infuriating.

          And this dickhead spread dangerous misinformation about disorders that can literally ruin and end lives. But being against literal mockeries of marginalized groups makes you the problem.

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        And you shouldn’t have explained why your opinions are against the rules. In doing so, you broke the rules, which you should have known would happen, because you knew your opinions were against the rules.

        Lord.

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          If anyone needs any more evidence that he’s a troll, they can just look to this conversion. I honestly can’t believe that there remains anyone that still buys his bullshit.

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              Your bad faith false equivalence isn’t going to work on me dude. I know what you’re doing.

              And for the record, before you start victimizing yourself…. I have absolute respect for people’s pronouns. But since you’re a troll- I mean… “dragon” and not a person, I don’t choose to respect yours. Are you trying to force me against my will to behave in a manner inconsistent with my choices?

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                  So…. You’re not a dragon, but yet, want to be called drag because you…. ride one? Even though they don’t even exist? I mean, at best it’s a nickname then, not a pronoun. You know this already. It’s been explained to you time and again. But hey, since it’s allowed:

                  Henceforth, you shall refer to me as 2011 Kia Riofucker.

                  Oh, and I know PLENTY about the trans community, thank you. Part of that includes the knowledge that “drag” is not a pronoun. It’s as I said- at best, a nickname.

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                    Drag isn’t a pronoun? According to who? Name at least three scholarly sources on gender and queerness that make that claim