this post was submitted on 07 May 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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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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the words were not the n-word… see below….

racial slurs here“coon” and “koongaroo”

if it wasn’t written by people claiming to be black, it would be indistinguishable from standard racism….
my money is on, fake as fuck and modded by actual white racists.
anyways, permanent ban, no explanation, no response to questions about the ban.
i had my doubts before, but now i’m sure.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Could you also post the comment that got you banned, as per guidelines?

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

damn… sorry, no i don’t want to link my reddit account to this one.

i understand if you remove this post too…

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see. Well I won't remove just yet, but it's not going to be easy to pass judgement, as people might feel you could be misrepresenting the situation.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 weeks ago
[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You mean the subreddit and not !blackpeopletwitter@lemmy.world , right?

Ah the comm seems dead/locked

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

yes, that’s why i put the r/… but i’ll edit the post for clarity

[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

it would be indistinguishable from standard racism….

my money is on, fake as fuck and modded by actual white racists

There's a video by F.D Signifier ("Spike Lee tried to warn us...") where he talks about contextual use:

these communities did not turn a blind eye, or forget how these individuals behaved and how their actions hurt other black people.

Thus within those communities, these minstrel actors-or moreover-black people that embody that minstrel aesthetic and ideology by trying to ingratiate themselves to white people at the expense of black people... were often forced to carry the names of these characters

I'm not part of that community (nor do I even look at Reddit anymore) so you could be right, though.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah it’s sad… i think it was made out of revenge for whitepeopletwitter

[–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i think it was made out of revenge for whitepeopletwitter

r/whitepeopletwitter was created almost 3 months after, though I was not commenting on the entire communities.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago