Unfortunate that you had to do that, but it sounds to me like you make the right call. Keep being great 💖🤍🩵
this post was submitted on 24 Apr 2025
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It's ridiculous we are still having to deal with this in 2025. Just yesterday I had to see someone using the tslur as a "joke" under a .world post. Mods removed it. It's not hard to be decent, although some people decide to make it look like an impossible task. As far as I'm concerned, hate speech is not free speech...
The way I see it, free speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences for what you say. You're free to walk up to the friend group and act like a jackass and personally insult everyone. And they're free to tell you to fk off and stop being friends with you and talking to you. That's not an infringement on your right to free speech, that's consequences for your actions.
These 'free speech' people act like the real world is this place where you can just approach and interrupt any conversation and enter any club without following the rules. They act like groups of like minded people getting together to share interests and ideas without wanting to constantly defend themselves and 'debate' their interests and beliefs is some new thing brought to us by the woke agenda.
And so they think social media should be this place where you can say whatever to whoever, wherever you want and if anyone has a problem with that, they're just anti 'free speech' woke libs or some shit.
The fact that they're more concerned with being able to spout off harmful words than they are about the actual wellbeing of people says it all. They hate consequences because they know exactly what the consequences of their actions should be. Never concerned with giving others the same legitimacy they whinge about getting; only about taking it away.
What's "adult human female" referring to? Asking so I can keep an eye out for this in the future
Adult human female is a dog whistle used by TERFs (and transphobes more broadly) to make it clear that they are specifically excluding trans women from the definition of womanhood; that is, it’s shorthand for saying that ‘adult human females’ are the only category of person that can be called a woman.
As a Brit myself, it saddens me how much hate is leeching from my country - especially towards minorities.
Thank you to the mods for making this community open so that people like me can lurk and learn to be better, while simultaneously protecting the people who depend on and need this safe space. Defederating was the right choice.
I won’t pretend I’m well versed in trans issues and struggles - I’m a cishet guy with no real skin in the game but I want to be an ally.
If anyone has good resources for someone like me to read so I can be better armed to refute and educate others who are being hateful, please let me know. The surge in hate after the recent Supreme Court ruling here in the UK has made it painfully clear being passive on the sidelines isn’t acceptable.
Huge apologies in advance if I’ve phrased anything hurtfully. I just want to learn.
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Stay classy, TERF Island.
That's fair.
People like that will say "just block them" with one fork of their tongue, and then "sort it out through discussion and voting" with the other fork.
People like that will say "just block them" with one fork of their tongue,
Aka: "i just supply the space, I have no responsibility to make sure it's actually safe"
"sort it out through discussion and voting"
Aka: "and I don't intend to protect anyone, not my problem if you're getting attacked".
thank u adaaaaa! luv u!
Disappointing to hear from the feddit.uk. Hopefully they get their shit together, i like their admins.
I appreciate you 🫶
Thanks for doing good moderation, honestly it sucks that certain admin teams act like this and dont take bigotry seriously.
Thanks Ada!
I hope the feddit.uk admins reconsider their approach to moderating transphobia, but in the mean time I appreciate your protective stance. 💗
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Well done 👏👏👏
Thank you for your hard work on making blahaj a great place for everyone!