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Isolation is how abuse happens.
Isolating children from the knowledge they can use to express how and if their boundaries are crossed only serves predators.
I said something similar on r/politics on Reddit and they banned me for homophobia. I was like WTF?
I feel like there must be a lot of context missing there.
There really wasn't. I said kids need sex education at a young age so they know what a 'bad touch' is and I was banned for homophobia out of the blue. And when I tried to get a clarification, they muted me.
I feel like there must be a lot of context missing there.
Okay, what context would you like?
The text of your comment that got you banned
Sorry, I don't have a photographic memory. Suffice it to say, it didn't mention LGBT+ people in any context, which is why it was out of the blue.
Huh? Just look at it and copy and paste it!
Not that I really care, I'm just saying that's the context that would be useful.
I don't know for sure but Reddit treated me that way too
Knowing reddit these days, probably not
The context is that the mods of r/politics have long had a reputation for being inconsistent and erratic in various ways.
Obviously I don't actually know the full context, but it strikes me as utterly plausible given the likelihood of a report by someone who disagreed with them and a mod team prone to shooting from the hip
The context is that reddit is run by nazi sympathizers.
Reddit's ran by nazis
Reddit is dumb like that
And that, indeed, is the purpose.