• LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    “x-tard” will never be and has never been funny. Disappointed that the mods would take down calling that out. Hexbear has been making some pretty good arguments about the overwhelming white middle class-ness of the instance. The fact that the only Vaush community I’ve seen is on Blahaj is a great example of it. Even Reddit libertarians aren’t cool with using “tard” though. This is literally worse than Reddit libertarian moderation, and that’s pathetic coming from a space that’s supposed to be inclusive.

    • ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Nice post. Once the emoji bug is fixed, you’d be getting the gold star above the spoiler.

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      order-of-lenin

      It really is odd to defend such a toothless phrase. It just alienates people who are neurodivergent/disabled or know people who are who would get slurred with it. And it’s not like the liberals would actually be insulted by it. What’s the point of using it, outside of feeling like you’re 13 again.

      I’ll perhaps acknowledge there’s an ironic use (i.e. sometimes Hasan will use it when ironically saying what a conservative would), but even that makes me cringe.

      The chapo podcast quit using it, so if they work to stop, I don’t see why posters can’t.

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      gun-felix large-adult-son will

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          Hasan just sucks for far different reasons. Vaush is actively aggressive towards leftist people of color. Maybe I just haven’t seen enough cause I don’t watch react streamers, but Hasan just seems a bit out of touch because of his money. As far as streamers go, I think he receives far more hate than is warranted.

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      1 year ago

      To be clear, those removals were by a community mod, appointed by another community mod. As soon as I became aware of them, I restored the posts in question and messaged the community mod, making the expectations of the instance clear.

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      Hey I’m a vaushite and all of his worst behaviors are bannable offenses within our community. His post in our rules says “don’t do several things that I would do.”