Comment on Moderator abuse: Request for review and removal of Decoy321@lemmy.world
Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club 5 days agoThere was no warning discussion or communication of any kind.
Even a simple removal of the post would have been better if moderators see content as unfit.
Banning only active contributors from a dead community is idiotic and only benefits reddit
When shitpost group #1 tells you “no racist shit”, that is NOT a green flag to post racist shit in another group.
Mods read your modlog and when you build a repeated history of this, yeah, you don’t get leniency.
You were warned TWO WEEKS AGO and learned NOTHING.
Ban #1 2 weeks ago:
Ban #2:
thats the point im trying to make - this is no a racist meme:
www.reddit.com/r/…/cueta_spain_right_now/ - up on reddit, no problems.
its a stupid shitpost. But I understand if you dont understand, not understanding is an epidemic.
You are comparing an immigration crisis to evil orcs in Lord of the Rings, it’s not merely racist, it is FUCKING RACIST.
Your attempt at justifying it is inherently dehumanizing and the fact that you either can’t see that or are apparently willfully ignorant of it proves the bans were 100% justified.
The irony here is palpable. You are not understanding that it is racist. That refusal from you is unfortunate and infuriating.
You’re missing the context and therefore completely reversing the point of the meme.
Trump saw the images from Ceuta and immediately turned a humanitarian/migration crisis into political propaganda. He called it an “invasion,” said Spain “doesn’t know what to do,” warned that America would look the same if Democrats won, and even said Republicans should use the images of Ceuta in the midterm campaign.
That rhetoric is what this meme is making fun of.
The LOTR image is deliberately taking Trump’s “foreign invasion” framing to its absurd conclusion: Oh, an invasion? So apparently Trump thinks Ceuta looks like Helm’s Deep with a giant enemy army at the gates.
I’m not comparing migrants to evil orcs. I’m mocking the racist/xenophobic rhetoric that portrays migrants as a hostile invading army in the first place.
You can argue that the satire wasn’t obvious enough without the Trump context. That’s fair. But once you actually know the context, treating the literal LOTR image as my view of migrants gets the joke completely backwards. The dehumanizing “invading enemy” framing is precisely what the meme is ridiculing.
echo@lemmy.today 4 days ago
Lol… I got banned because I down-voted a couple stupid posts in a community that came up in my main feed. Whatever… moved on. You should, too. Quit trying to belong to a community that doesn’t want you.