Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585

Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:

Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.

Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:

Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.

Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.

I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:

It’s not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.

I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don’t want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that’s not the case in any of the communities I’ve been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.

PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.

  • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    For all their corpo-friendly faults, Democrats are demonstrably less oppressive than Republicans. Vote for the lesser evil, then don’t be silent about the support of genocide. But keep the greater evil out first.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      14 hours ago

      Vote for the lesser evil, then don’t be silent about the support of genocide. But keep the greater evil out first.

      So it turns out that wasn’t a convincing argument for enough voters.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          Yeah, we are all paying for the terrible judgement of the pro-genocide wing of the party that tried to force their only policy on the American people. Keep blaming the voters and never appealing to them. That keeps working out great for you.