Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
A mod from World [email protected].
What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
I had my comment removed and received a one-day ban.
Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
Original post: Pope is in ‘critical’ condition after suffering ‘asthmatic respiratory crisis,’ Vatican says
Like many of us on Lemmy, I think the Catholic church is responsible for a lot of evil in the world, including the way they were/are directly involved in blocking access to contraception leading to the needless death of millions of Africans due to the AIDs epidemic, the endless cases of child sex abuse, along with the ongoing coverups, and honestly too many awful things to mention in detail here.
So I left a comment that said:
The Catholic church at this point has all the moral authority of a child sex cult.
Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.
Amend community rule 4 to remove the reference to religion. WTF is it doing there as a rule in a news community in the first place? Is LW being run as a theocracy now?
Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist,
anti-religious,or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.
The mod in question is also a religious weirdo (see below during a discussion about Luigi), so perhaps that is why they have the rule in place. But if that community not going to accept fair criticism of religion then it isn’t a serious news community imo.
I fully acknowledge it wasn’t a long ban and the rule was in place, so it was perhaps a BPR or YDI in that sense. But the rule shouldn’t be there in the first place. How on earth is it justified? And looking at the other votes and comments on that post, it’s clear that the the vast majority of folks hate the Catholics church as much as I do. So why is this mod running defence for the famously morally bankrupt Catholic church in a world news community?
PTB
“If you wanted not to be accused of sex abuse, you shouldn’t have sexually abused all those children.”
Just a statement that hurts someone’s feelings doesn’t mean it needs to be silenced. Especially since no one is really disputing the facts at this point. This is my problem with “civility” in general as a metric of allowed-ness. Sometimes the truth is not civil. As long as you’re not being deceitful or picking a fight for no reason (Which, I realize some people might disagree and say this is. To me it is not.)
Here’s Bill Burr clapping back in a very classy and very ruthless way at a morning show host who is trying to give him grief about being mean to the church: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBE9vyQEa8E&t=65s
“There is only what is and that’s it. What should be is a dirty lie.” - Lenny Bruce
Also, related: “Take away the right to say ‘fuck’ and you take away the right to say ‘fuck the government.” - Also Lenny Bruce
Nicely said, Philip.
Thanks. I had never heard the second Lenny Bruce quote until I went looking for the first one to get the wording, and to me it gets to the heart of why I don’t like “civility.”