This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
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I made a post about the Europeans who are being deported from Germany for being anti-genocide. https://lemmy.ml/post/28407953
A user repeated the now many times debunked lie that these victims facing deportation were "violent racist rioters". Blatant German propaganda, made up to smear opposition to the genocide in Palestine. Which Germany supplies 30% of the weapons for.
After calling them, and a few other users out for repeating the same lie, the moderators banned me.
I'm not surprised. There's a post over there semi-ironically thanking Trump for truly shattering the global image of American superiority.
Meanwhile, the very same EU is falling prey to the exact same kind of demagogues we did. And no one but a few even brought that up.
I’d say BPR. I think you’re largely correct on the facts but you need to be able to express them without insulting a large portion of the community you’re in, or you can expect to be banned. I understand you probably think this is a uniquely horrible circumstance that rises above such ideas of decorum but that’s obviously not how people who disagree with you will see it.
So, I’d advise you to think harder before commenting because you’ll be a lot more effective in getting the facts out there if you do.
Love the person is ignoring the one asking if just being accused should be an appropriate level for being deported
As almost always happens with this kind of thing, you were not banned for posting the story, you were banned for being an asshole. Your post of the story is still up, and look at all the places it's being crossposted.
Put it in a different light: Country X puts someone to death because they kissed a person of the same gender in public or something. Everyone on Lemmy thinks that's incredibly fucked up, they start posting stories about it.
And then someone comes in and starts yelling about how that country and its authorities are backwards medieval idiots, and attacking anyone who tries to say anything different. Then they get banned. Which gives them a handy opening to start yelling in all directions about how the moderators are anti-queer horrible people who are trying to censor the truth about how repressive this particular government is.
No one said "violent racist idiots." Everyone said this is a bad thing. I have no idea the truth about the original issue, if the people were involved in property damage or not (and honestly I don't care either way, they shouldn't have been deported before a conviction and probably not after one even if so). But you were banned for being a twat about it and calling other people in the thread "pro-genocide" and "defending fascism" and "racist idiots."
I suspect some people do this on purpose, so they can proceed to pitch a fit about it here, and feed into the narrative that anyone at all on Lemmy is pro-genocide, so they can paint themselves as the rare voices in the wilderness who are anti-genocide and generally sow mudslinging among people to no purpose. YDI. Don't be a twat in the comments and you won't have these types of issues.
PTB but it was inflammatory. Truth often is.
There are many many people who wish your words were not factual, and the ban is not surprising to me
