Now that this community has mods, I think we should come to something approaching a consensus on whether there should be a rule against posting “nice” comics from transphobic and other kinds of bigoted artists. People like Stonetoss and Jago who have a lot of innocent-looking relatable comics, but also post the most mean, bigoted propaganda.
And I’d like to present a third option besides yes and no: one might post comics from bigoted artists after removing the artist credit, if the mods think that’s a good compromise.
That’s what’s happening here and you’re whining about it. Follow your own advice.
Also this is nonsense. Some topics don’t need to be relitigated. No one benefits from giving “maybe {racist trope} is real” a platform and legitimacy.
Furthermore, allowing stuff like Nazi ideas is corrosive to the community. Like the anecdote about the Nazi bar posted elsewhere, if you let that stuff in then you end up with all the other people leaving.
You are wrong and your ideas are counter productive for maintaining a vibrant community. Many left wing spaces ban Nazi apologia, and have no shortage of debate and competing thought.
Claiming your opponents are just emotionally weak is also laughable. You sound like a real sad sack neo-nazi incel projecting his own shortcomings.
You aren’t making a new space. You’re fucking up an existing space, and that’s very different.
Instead of making “safehappytimecomicstrips” as an instance, youre dictating what a larger, already established instance is going to do in the future. You’re taking the general board and turning it into a niche community to suit your own personal interests, and that’s not okay.
What if some billionaire bought up a newspaper because they were tired of seeing articles about wealth inequality and only wanted content that exclusively promoted their own viewpoint?
Oh wait…
That’s you. You’re the Jeff Bezos of internet discussion. Hooray! You did it. You showed those bigots how REAL bigotry is done. Good for you. Im glad your censorship is such an ideological win for you.
You’re mistaking pro-democracy people’s decision making, for unitary Capitalist Fascism.
Here’s a video that might help you untangle the two.
HOW AND WHY a decision is enacted is hugely important in this.
The why is: to protect trans people and women (the target groups of fascist friendly right wing comics), from the spread of those messages here.
The how is by community consensus, which we’re forming now. This puts your mindset in the minority, which will sit a lot better with you if you understand the community’s decision (which clear comparing us to Jeff Bezo and Capitalism shows you don’t rn. Maybe earnestly attempting to understand will change your mindset).
…and if you still don’t like it, you can go make your own comic strip community. The rest of the minority opinion can go join you in alt-right friendly liberal la la land… Where democracy and leftist censorship are “the real problems”. /s
Hey maybe some hidden anonymous account of Jeff Bezos or Mark Zuckerberg will show up there and praise it too. Maybe one day you’ll be offered funding to popularise anti-trans content. It wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened in the world, and that’s the problem.
Safe space? Yeah, from right wing Capitalist Fascism, and any endorsement of it we can avoid.