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.

  • FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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.

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      8 days ago

      He said, verbatim,

      the exclamation of ’ DUDE!’ has no gender connotations to me. And if someone is offended… get over it, dude

      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.