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.
Personal preference is not censorship. Banning an artist from an artistic community because the community can’t regulate their own emotions is censorship.
So the individuals running a forum cannot moderate the forum. It must be open to any and all content. Otherwise that is censorship, and bad.
Well, I infer from your tone you think censorship is always bad. Maybe you’re just splitting a hair about how in a sense content moderation is censorship.
The biggest eyeroll
My big problem with censorship is that it dulls the mind. Safe spaces do the same thing. If your thoughts and beliefs are never questioned, you can never grow as a person. Echo chambers are breeding grounds for ignorance. Our world is not tolerant of ignorance. Being unable to react appropriately to emotionally inflammatory bait makes us all weaker on an emotional level.
If you want to coddle yourself, make a safe space to do so. Don’t take an open forum and limit it to suit your preferences. The internet is infinite. Make a new space with your own rules.
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.