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 @[email protected], 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 @[email protected] 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.

  • missingno
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    Everything involving this Blahaj slapfight has been BPR, and anyone continuing to rehash it over here is just BPR^2

    Like, seriously, this should’ve ended the minute the obvious troll provoking everyone got banned. Nothing productive will ever come of continuing to talk about it now, all sides need to let it go.

      • @PugJesus
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        -1110 hours ago

        real af

        Oh cool, so you weren’t one of the people saying everyone who left 196 was a transphobe?

        Oh, wait, you’re literally one of the people who fucking started this.

          • @PugJesus
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            -1210 hours ago

            So you think the idea of leaving this all behind is real, but you still love bringing it up too much, unprovoked, to be ‘real’.

            Okay.

              • @PugJesus
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                -710 hours ago

                learn to take a joke idk

                “ha ha I was just joking” is your go-to every time you get called out.

                  • @PugJesus
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                    -510 hours ago

                    it’s my go to every time i was making a joke that went over your head, akshually

                    lmao.

                    Tone doesn’t paper over the utter disingenuity of all your arguments.

        • @[email protected]
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          310 hours ago

          jokes aside, i have been consistently defending you on blahaj for months explicitly that i don’t think you’re a transphobe and moreso just a bad ally. i get some pushback but i think my points get heard. :)

          • @PugJesus
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            -610 hours ago

            jokes aside, i have been consistently defending you on blahaj for months explicitly that i don’t think you’re a transphobe and moreso just a bad ally. i get some pushback but i think my points get heard. :)

            It’s cute that you still talk about me there.

            • @[email protected]
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              310 hours ago

              oh yikes no i didn’t say frequently i said consistently. maybe 2 times. but both times i did!

              • @PugJesus
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                -110 hours ago

                oh yikes no i didn’t say frequently i said consistently. maybe 2 times. but both times i did!

                Typical of your level of literacy. I didn’t say frequently.

                It’s cute that you still talk about me there.

                  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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                    18 hours ago

                    Man, Pug hates you a lot. You’re done nothing but defend Pug and he hates you.

                    Meanwhile he has a reason to actually dislike me and he keeps egging me on like a debate bro.

                  • @PugJesus
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                    110 hours ago

                    just making sure you didn’t get the wrong idea!

                    Yes, that’s definitely how it comes off as, certainly not you attempting to correct a mistake that wasn’t there.

                    frankly we dgaf about you

                    Good. Feel free to continue to not talk about me.

                  • @PugJesus
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                    frankly we dgaf about you

                    Thanks for the special post for me in 196 though, I just saw it.