EDIT: Two responses from admins who dishonestly reframed the events of my ban and apparently refuse to explain it. Apparently “long time users” get different treatment.
EDIT2: The reason was finally given that “Have you stopped beating your wife?” in response to someone trying to put words in your mouth and ask loaded questions is a banworthy set of words. Incredible I know.
I would like explanation for the thinking that led to me being recently banned and branded a racist.
I was randomly attacked by a bad faith troll who later let slip that she was bearing a grudge based on some other encounter from 8 months ago. The attack consisted of an attempt to paint me as a racist for this simple and honest reading error.
I am a principled Marxist Leninist, active in real life and any reading of my contributions will support this and refute this slur on my character.
I can, at most, stretch to forgiving the ridiculous idea that I was the one being “toxic” here, and not simply holding up a mirror to the toxicity of the troll who attacked me for an innocent mistake, fantasised about me doing hypothetical racist things, asked me loaded questions and tried to put words in my mouth to fool credulous onlookers.
What I cannot ever accept is the allegation that I somehow engaged in “racism” anywhere in this interchange or in any of my other comments in the years I’ve participated on here. I deserve an explanation as to what you think you saw as racist in any of my comments.
I expect a complete apology, a clearing of my name and censure against my attacker and abuser. Those involved shamed themselves with their actions. You have an opportunity to make amends and undo that injustice you’ve inflicted.
I run a large ML forum with weekly views of tens of thousands and I recognise exactly the temptations you’ve allowed yourselves to succumb to of abusing your power for a false sense of righteousness based on petty bullying and unfair treatment. I know that I’m not the only one who’s been a victim of this on lemmygrad.
The contributors to this forum deserve better moderation and better judgement from the admins in general. The current process of banning people without right of reply is abusive and dishonourable. That can be a separate discussion.
But I didn’t “flip out” at a “simple correction”. I responded in kind to a troll who, as is plain to see for any honest reader, “attacked me for an innocent mistake, fantasised about me doing hypothetical racist things, asked me loaded questions and tried to put words in my mouth to fool credulous onlookers”
Entirely my point. Did you see this happen with my abuser?
You’re being dishonest.
EDIT: “and brought up a confusing analogy of someone beating there wife.” This is the canonical example of a loaded question.
Even if this was the root of your confusion, you still need to explain why you skipped over their performative outrage and abusive comments.
They rightfully corrected you, you reading into this as a troll tells me you likely have some issues accepting criticism and it genuinally sounds like unresolved anger issues, neither of which are ok to take out on random people online.
You keep invoking domestic abuse when someone was merely pointing out that you got a langauge wrong and I sense the hole only getting dug deeper as you refuse to achknowledge your own role in this.
I would have no issue with a correction. It seems like nobody has anything to say about the lashing out that went along with the correction. I responded to the anger on display, it wasn’t from me.
No I don’t. More dishonesty. I’m talking about verbal abuse.
verbal abuse can be a component to domestic abuse, domestic abuse does not just have to be physical
Okay.
Why do you misgender the user in question when they clearly have a trans flag in their display name and she/her on their profile bio?
I did not know this. I’ve correct the post.
Is it really plausible that I come here looking for fair treatment and intentionally misgender someone, on lemmygrad and self sabotage my attempt to get a fair hearing?