That’s still censorship. My instance is politically neutral and allows actual free speech as long as u follow laws and instance policy etc. We have been mass defederated cos of provably false reports on fediseer.
I’ll probably get banned or at leat my comment removed but u can’t criticise trans in any regard. Disagreeing ideology = ur a bigot and fascist Nazi = banned
Citing peer reviewed journals = ur a bigot and fascist Nazi = banned
Transphobic arguments tend to either be in bad faith or poorly-informed, and are often bolstered by Brandolini’s Law. i.e. the one that says “The amount of energy needed to refute bullsh-t is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it”.
The especially clever ones claim that peer-reviewed journals say things they don’t.
If Reddit are against transphobia it might be one of the few things that’s still going right over there… and I wouldn’t expect it to last.
I suspect it’s because anyone who disagrees with (or even just calls it) “trans ideology” doesn’t understand it. Trans people aren’t a set of beliefs, they’re a set of people. Some of them are clever enough to understand the sociological, philosophical, biological ramifications, and will argue that way.
But for most, simply living as their birth gender is a constant uphill struggle of psychological pain or discomfort that they can only ameliorate by going through gender reassignment - itself not exactly a simple pain free process. By arguing against their ideology, whatever that means, you’re in effect saying “you don’t deserve comfort. The right to the pursuit of happiness does not apply to you”. Which effectively robs them of their humanity. And thinking of some people as sub-human is, verifiably, what fascists and Nazis do.
“Evil begins when you start treating people as if they were things”
Lemmy hates free speech just as much. Try saying anything about certain topics ur not allowed to criticise and u too will get banned.
You can only get banned at community or instance level. Nobody can ban you on your own instance, only defederate.
That’s still censorship. My instance is politically neutral and allows actual free speech as long as u follow laws and instance policy etc. We have been mass defederated cos of provably false reports on fediseer.
Could you give me an example?
I’ll probably get banned or at leat my comment removed but u can’t criticise trans in any regard. Disagreeing ideology = ur a bigot and fascist Nazi = banned Citing peer reviewed journals = ur a bigot and fascist Nazi = banned
Transphobic arguments tend to either be in bad faith or poorly-informed, and are often bolstered by Brandolini’s Law. i.e. the one that says “The amount of energy needed to refute bullsh-t is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it”.
The especially clever ones claim that peer-reviewed journals say things they don’t.
If Reddit are against transphobia it might be one of the few things that’s still going right over there… and I wouldn’t expect it to last.
I suspect it’s because anyone who disagrees with (or even just calls it) “trans ideology” doesn’t understand it. Trans people aren’t a set of beliefs, they’re a set of people. Some of them are clever enough to understand the sociological, philosophical, biological ramifications, and will argue that way.
But for most, simply living as their birth gender is a constant uphill struggle of psychological pain or discomfort that they can only ameliorate by going through gender reassignment - itself not exactly a simple pain free process. By arguing against their ideology, whatever that means, you’re in effect saying “you don’t deserve comfort. The right to the pursuit of happiness does not apply to you”. Which effectively robs them of their humanity. And thinking of some people as sub-human is, verifiably, what fascists and Nazis do.
“Evil begins when you start treating people as if they were things”