Today, i couldnt upvote a post from anarchymemes@anarchist.nexus so i decided to check it out on my pc. i noticed that i was banned from the com even though i havent posted anything on the com nor the instance. i guess the reason for the ban is that i posted a meme to different comm a while ago. The meme is homophobic but i didnt know it when i was posting it. After finding out it was homophonic, i added a disclaimer to my post.
i dont think i deserved the ban, and i want to hear your thoughts.
Dissociation would be blocking someone you don’t like. You banned them from a community. You personally, unilaterally made a decision on behalf of others without input, discussion, or community involvement. This is a perversion of anarchism.
first of all, we use Piefed, which has better blocking than Lemmy. anyone I block is shadowbanned from the communities I mod anyway.
second of all, disassociation can absolutely mean exiling people from your community. it’s literally how modern day anarchist collectives such as the Zapistista work.
again, absolutely wrong. I made the decision after originally discussing it with ALL the active community members over Matrix, as everyone who has ever posted to c/anarchymemes is a member of the flotilla Matrix and are active daily. I also discussed it again yesterday with the members of the community.
you shouldn’t say things like this when you have no fucking idea what you’re talking about. you don’t know us, so don’t presume to know how we think or feel.
there are many anarchists, all of whom have their own personal idea of what anarchism means. but as the AFAQ says, there’s no real definition of anarchism that everyone accepts. to me, your idea that anarchists must allow those who do harm to be among them is the perversion. I do wonder to what lengths you would take such a ridiculous notion. you have no issue with homophobia, obviously, so would you extend this idea to rapists? murderers? child molesters? at what level of immorality or intolerance is exiling someone from an anarchist community no longer a perversion of your idea of anarchism?
don’t bother answering, that was rhetorical. I’ll be shadowbanning you now, as you suggested I should do.
You’re right that I don’t understand how your community works. I’m glad it was discussed democratically, but there is someone you clearly forgot to include or this post wouldn’t exist.
You are putting defamatory words in my mouth, and I think you are aware that you are doing it maliciously with intent to defame. To me, this only further confirms my suspicions about you. The only person doing harm here is you. My generation has sacrificed too much, I have personally sacrificed too much, to stand quietly while decades of progress won at unimaginable and horrifying costs is undone by privileged children that can’t tell the difference between homophobia and situational humor that has nothing to do with our community.
I recommend you look at the discussions that Deceptichum and I just had, then calm down, collect your thoughts, and process what exactly I am saying. It is important that you understand the harm you are doing to those you claim to care about with behavior like this.