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Ubuntu mod team takes anti-queer "Don't say gay" stance. (www.reddit.com)
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[–] 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (27 children)

I don't see where the mods made them change it. (Edit: I see it now. If you check the edit history on the post, it shows who made the edits, in this case it was DIscourse mod wild_man.)

Also, why is this a link to reddit?

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (26 children)

    The post on Mastodon has a screenshot of the post edit history:

    Screenshot of a forum post, showing the versions before and after an edit. The sentence "I am queer, I am technically a furry too" was edited into "I am technically a furry too"

    And a copy-pasted response from a moderator (the most relevant bit):

    So in my opinion, if your intention was to show political support for diversity, you should avoid using this flag. This will allow us to refuse the use of a flag for instance saying 'non-queer', If we allow your flag, then we have to admit also other similar political flags, both supporting and opposing diversity.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    "If we allow your flag, then we have to admit also other similar political flags, both supporting and opposing diversity."

    Consider the following: no, they don't.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Crazy statement, if we accept the gays we should accept the nazis too.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Sure, up to the point where they harass someone or attack them, or have a history of doing so. A belief of "I think some people do not deserve to exist" is different from a belief of "People should be allowed to X" or "People who Y should not be harassed". A nazi sympathizer who thinks nazis shouldn't be attacked is fine, a nazi who attacks others is not.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Nah, fuck nazis. They don't deserve to exist.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I agree in principle, but you're not going to win any battles with that mindset. They'll just respond with "so much for the tolerant left". Victimization is a beloved pastime for them.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    A brick is approaching a Nazi's teeth from an initial distance of 10m horizontally and a velocity of 10m/s. You may assume the absence of air resistance and treat the brick as a point mass.

    Calculate the initial angle(s) required to remove the most teeth and determine whether the Nazi can complain about the tolerant left before a brick removes their ability to speak.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This response is entirely unhelpful. Yes. Fuck nazis. I get it. This adds nothing. Nazis are bad, but we must coexist with them, lest we round them all up and get rid of them, which isn't gonna happen. If it were that easy, we'd have done it already!

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago

    But why must they also allow bigotry if they allow people to express who they are? That is the biggest load of shit. So if I say "I have a husband of X years," they must also allow someone to say a bunch of bigotry as a counter view?

    Or if I say I like open source software they must allow the trolls that want to call me a dirty hippie and tell me to get a job so I can pay for software? And I agree everything is political, and ignoring it doesn't make it any less so.

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)
    [removed by mod]
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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I take offense at this. I am autistic, this mod in question is just a bigot.

    What I want to know now is whether this mod is associated with Canonical in any capacity.

    On further research, this happened on the official Ubuntu boards, not Reddit as the link here implies. That makes this even more egregious. Canonical employees and official Ubuntu maintainers are responsible for this brazen homophobia. I gave up Ubuntu some time ago over Snaps and other creepy capitalist behavior, but this is a new low I didn’t expect from them.

    People, don’t use Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, or anything from Canonical. It you need Debian compatibility try Mint or Debian, otherwise try Fedora. Bazzite is also amazing if all you do is play games. Canonical is just as evil and corrupt as the other big companies.

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  • [+] -17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure why you're moralizing so hard. I dont use ubuntu or any of their products.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    In the first line I was attempting to make a joke, since I am autistic and the mod - or mods - clearly are bigots.

    The post-strikethrough comments aren't directed at you, but at the disgusting behavior of Canonical. I'm sincerely sorry if I didn't make that part quite clear. ☹️

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I remember earlier this year when conservatives used autism to justify elon's nazi salutes.

    Don't be like that.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That response does not appear on the Ubuntu site. There is no source on the mastodon paste.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The OP on Mastodon shared screenshots of the replies (can't tell if they were originally in the forum post, or if it's a DM):

    https://nextcloud.aztinet.eus/s/sxqEDJDZGp7a9rx

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Okay, that's pretty difficult to read but it's something.

    But I checked the Ubuntu Discourse thread just now, and the statement "I am queer" has been restored by a mod. Hopefully the other mods are reminded of the policies they're supposed to be following.

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