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[–] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 year ago (25 children)

I think since blahaj has a lot of LGBT+ people and since right‐wingers has already been blaming the LGBT+ community for pedophilia, they didn't want any more risk of the media start accusing the blahaj instance of endorsing pedophilia, so they had to act pre-emptively and defederate. I don't really think it's anyone's fault, it's just that in today's political climate, any accusation against a group of people, even if it's false, would end up inspiring mobs to target that group of people. I think the admins of blahaj just doesn't want LGBT+ people get be associated with peodophiles and potentially become victims of a witchhunt against LGBT+ people.

[–] fuwa@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

since right‐wingers has already been blaming the LGBT+ community for pedophilia, they didn’t want any more risk of the media start accusing the blahaj instance of endorsing pedophilia, so they had to act

Innocent trans person: gets wrongly accused of pedophilia by disingenuous lying scumbag fascists as part of some stupid political culture war.

Same trans person: wrongly accuses someone else of pedophilia to appease disingenuous lying scumbag fascists as part of some stupid political culture war.

Trans rights are human rights. At the same time I think that every adult has the fundamental right to sexual self-expression, alone or among consenting adult partners. The definition and very nature of "kink" means that a person finds something erotic that other people find mundane, strange or even gross (like feet, bondage, roleplay, nylon, furry, piss play, adult diapers, etc). "Sex-positivity" means being tolerant with the fact that different people get turned on by different things, and that basically anything goes between consenting adults who are following whatever laws that happen to apply to them. Nobody has to like kink, but people ought to accept that kink is a valid form of consensual adult sexuality.

At this point, the facts seem to suggest the the lemmynsfw community in question was made up of consenting adults. And so, taking the misdirected heat off of your community by wrongly directing it at someone else's community is indefensible to me. Nobody is being protected when false accusations fly freely and people start shoving others under the bus for political convenience.

I think the blahajzone made the wrong call here, and lemmynsfw deserve credit for sticking up for sex-positivity amongst consenting adults, especially under pressure.

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