Someone made a post with a picture of a blonde haired blue eyed child. The title was “Would you slap this child for 88 million dollars?”
I said “Slap!?!?? I would eat that child’s still beating heart for 88 million dollars.”
Next day I log in to find out I had been temp banned for 7 days for sexualization/abuse of a minor.
I uninstalled Reddit. That was 11 days ago and I haven’t been back. Context is important. Obviously, no one is going to offer me 88 million dollars to eat a child’s heart. Not to mention, do you really want to make deals with people that can offer that to you? I mean, I wouldn’t.
All this has led me to realize. I don’t want to be part of a community with no sense of humor.
I would post a link but not only was my comment deleted. The thread was too I think.
I do. But that’s the point of dogwhistling. Plausible deniability so that people pointing at it can be called insane.
The message on the post was “you can even make fun of children suffering anymore, screw politically correct people”. That’s very common right wing politics.
You will also notice someone mentioning 14 seconds video in the comments. I’m sure it’s a, coincidence, and not fascists exchanging pleasantries. The complaint was the same though, about the “fun police coming after people”.
That’s the subjacent message that was spread, this time. Apparently moderate right wing, reinforced by dogwhistling, plausibly deniable.
Pretty sure you’re just being paranoid. There’s also very little to do with the actual content of what got OP banned and mostly about how much reddit mods suck.