For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.
They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.
For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.
They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.
You don’t have to predict any kind of positive or negative perception of a word. If you misgender me, I’ll tell you “please don’t” to which, if you’re not an asshole, you’ll reply “ok”. Replying “Actually, that’s a neutral word, so just get over it, mmkay?” is asshole behaviour and that is why he got banned.
Get off your high horse. The whole thread is about how the guy got shadow banned after not even directly calling anybody anything to their face. Nobody asked him to stop, and I’m sure he would have if someone had asked them to, same for me. But if were having a casual conversation and you get annoyed by the word “dude”, then I’m probably just going to end up wondering what the hell your problem is because I use “dude” casually all the time.
Nobody banned him because he said “dude”. You’re only trying to pretend that because you refuse to admit you’re wrong. They banned him because he said people who consider the word “dude” to be a gendered term need to “get over it”. This is not hard to understand.
He specifically said in another comment that he would stop if asked. If Lemmy users were punished and held responsible for all these random off-comments taken out of context, half of the user base would be in prison right now, and the other half would be on a watch list for some of the shit I’ve seen people say. Stop choosing to be outraged for the fun of it.
He said, verbatim,
They don’t want that mentality in a trans community (shocking) so they preemptively banned him. Nobody is punishing him, he only thinks that because he feels uncomfortable about having to face his own internalized transphobia.