cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5419055

(See screenshot. Posted in /r/gaybros on Reddit.)

147 points

Hey, thats me.

For the record, the article doesn’t mention anything about islam or Muslims, and the comments in the post neither, so the mods saw “homophobic attack” and went “better remove it because Islamophobia”

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46 points

Ironically, very Islamophobic of the mods.

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20 points

I figured they just read Lesbian as Lebanon/Lebanese and got confused.

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10 points

That’s really weird since it’s an LGBT subreddit, so I bet the word lesbian comes up much more often than Lebanon.

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10 points

According to other comments here, it’s more an LGB subreddit.

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2 points

Brains are weird sometimes.

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14 points

Mods are like: hey, sorry we had to delete your post. Blame the Muslims!

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Maybe the mods have been on the internet for more than a week and knows what happens in those sorts of comment sections and don’t want to sit at their computers all day dealing with that shit?

Do any of you people think before screaming injustice and reverse racism?

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I mean if you were going to guess the religion of those involved… yeah, Islam would be the one right?

Moderations pretty hard tbh, sorry your post got taken down bro.

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I’ve heard absolute loads of homophobic BS from Christians and especially anti-trans stuff lately, so fuck off with the singling out Islam bigotry. All religious people are capable of hate, as much as they claim to be above it all (at least the ones dumb enough to openly express hate).

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I agree with you that all religions are shit, but I think it’s important and we should be able to point out when a specific religion is fucking us up.

In Berlin there has been a lot of homophobic attacks coming from the muslim community, especially in that area where there are a lot of them.

Maybe you were unware of that, but I think its very very likely that the attackers were muslims.

That doesn’t mean that Christianity is better, nor any other religion, but do we really need to be pointing out the homophobia in the muslim religion and ALWAYS followed by and Christianity is also shitty? There are posts criticizing the homophobic and transphobic acts that Christians have been doing lately too.

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Okay but give me one theocratic Christian country that openly kills people for being gay. We’re not going to abolish bigotry in the world without admitting that the Middle East and Islam is especially fucked up when it comes to LGBT rights

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yes but if you read the article linked in the reddit theread anouther comment mentioned this was in Berlin-Neukölln, which is predominantly muslim and known to have issues with (esp. young men/boys) radicals opposing queer people.

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4 points

In Berlin it’s basically given the perpetrators were Muslims.

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The vast majority of anti-LGBT attacks in Europe, or even Germany specifically, are not Muslim.

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3 points

We got sources on that?

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Christians are obsessed with persecuting LGBT as well, but Islam is on a whole other level. People are still getting stoned to death for being LGBT in Muslim countries. This is supported by their laws. In any Christian majority country, they would be thrown in prison for murder for doing this, at the very least. In some Muslim countries, you would be thrown in prison for trying to stop the murder.

I’m not saying that Christians never commit acts of violence against LGBT, but Muslims do so a lot more in current times.

In my opinion, the world would be better off without all of the Abrahamic religions. Is being an Abrahamicphobe wrong?

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Sure it could be. Just wondering are you a muslim? I mean I know that there are progressive muslims. Not trying to attack you or anything :)

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5 points

In India both Hindu and Sikh community’s have avid followers who’ve done homophobic attacks, they don’t get as much attention because of all the other violence they do such as against women

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Homophobia is not a religion-only issue. There are many LGBT hate crimes happening all over the world and all the time. The world in its entirity has failed LGBT, and to single out Muslims or Christians is to ignore those issues happening in other places.

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Which is a load of bullshit: https://old.reddit.com/r/de/comments/16ngwke/berlin_lesbisches_paar_von_jugendlichen/
Been up an entire day with more than 1k upvotes on the German subreddit. Maybe ask what agenda your mod is trying to push there.

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I’m guessing the agenda is “this is definitely going to lead to a bunch of anti-islamic discussion in the comment section, and I don’t want to deal with all that (with limited mod tools)”

I’d put more blame on reddit administration than the mod who’s trying to play the safe side to keep the sub in existence.

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5 points

That could’ve been a very different and still valid response though.

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19 points

To be fair, it’s in German. Entirely likely whatever automated flagging the admins used on the other post isn’t working on non-English ones.

Still, it’s a fair thing to point out.

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2 points

If it is an automated thing then you can still file an appeal, but the mods pretty clearly acted on their own accord here.

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7 points

Different subs get different rules, unfortunately. The anarchism sub was constantly being threatened with being shut down if they didn’t self censor stuff that was fine anywhere else in Reddit, for example.

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47 points

My cultural identity is based around freedom to acknowledge reality, and this genuinely offends me to my core. Maybe acknowledging reality should be made into a religion of some sort so it can be given similar protections? What would be a good name though? Sentientness? Existence?

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14 points

I wanted to make a parody religion called “the church of slitting the throat of random bystanders on the street”, to make fun of doing harm and limiting the freedom of others under the name of religion. Would be also a good basis for some comedy/action-thriller movie/whatever, wgere a serial killer manages to legalize his killing spree by making it a religion.

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9 points

Objectivism?

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7 points

That one may be taken by people you don’t want to be associated with…

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6 points

How about Common Sense?

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5 points

Unfortunately, common sense is often the opposite of reality.

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28 points

Reddit at its best.

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20 points

That’s really insidious

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