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.

  • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 days ago

    Which makes it strange for the admin to raise account ages as a factor doesn’t it? Why would it matter what age the account was? People should be treated with respect and given thebenefit of the doubt regardless of their time here.

    I cannot find anything regarding them raising it as a factor, especially not in a way that would imply you were treated unfairly for it. You seem to be the only one bringing age account up in this thread. I don't know why you don't simply quote the evidence of stuff if it's so important to what you're saying, unless you don't actually have any.

    Because the classic “genuinely curious” redditism is always a lie, every time. There was no “genuine fucking question” as she put it. It was all a set up to throw a tantrum instead of simply correcting the mistake.

    Again, this is mind-reading, not evidence of anything.

    Yes. I don’t see the issue with this. It’s the only theory that makes her tantrum make sense, and as you’ll see shortly, she’s very sensitive about her kiddie porn for a very good reason.

    And you continue to make insulting insinuations about her, even as you try to say you're the one who is being bullied.

    That admin was repeatedly dishonest, insulting and was threatening to deny my right of reply in a comm created for this purpose. It’s just bullying and denying a simple process would be a lowlife thing to do.

    I read nothing bullying. Only disagreement with you. If you consider someone not agreeing with you to be bullying, then it's no wonder you are having the out of proportion response to this that you are having.

    No, I do not consider this person to be a comrade of mine, and you shouldn’t either. This is just a “No u r” response to my valid question.

    Then don't try to gotcha an admin by asking if it's "comradely" behavior when talking about how another user acts.

    This is an effective perma ban. How do you think I could possibly continue on here having been baselessly labelled as a racist with a target on my back for vindictive and emotional admins?

    That's how you feel about it, not the reality of the situation. Tbh, I had forgotten it even happened until you made this thread and if you were truly concerned people would remember and hold it against you, you could have simply made a thread clarifying your side of the story, as I already stated. Instead, you have chosen to make it about attacking others.

    I am self assured in my righteousness because I am me, I know I am not racist, I know I was not toxic and I know I was attacked. These are things I can’t not know. You’re damn right I’m indignant.

    Incorrect. You can know you don't intend to be racist, first of all, but you don't define whether your behavior is. That's only something that people among groups subjected to racism can fully judge properly. Else white people would just be able to say "I'm not racist" and they'd get a pass, even as they do obviously racist things. And to the other points, even more so, "I was not toxic" is your personal judgment on the matter.

    I had plenty of time to think about this and decide on this approach. Give the admins an opportunity to explain themselves and they failed this simple matter, being completely dishonest throughout.

    I cannot see how this is what you did. From where I'm standing, you came in guns blazing, accusing people of things and throwing around words like abuser and thug.

    I honestly appreciate the thoughtful way you’ve approached this. As I said above, I calmly and rationally decided that this was my only recourse. Give the admins a chance, they embarrassed themselves. Two tried to misrepresent the order of events, always erasing the abusive and toxic way I was responded to, the third has indulged in a new fantasy about me being ableist about dyslexia to add to me being called racist and transphobic. These conceited idpol attacks are so incredibly immature and the first refuge of a scoundrel.

    Yeah I mean, I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt and you are using it to trash talk others more, while refusing to budge an inch. I see nothing embarrassing from the admin posts of the sort. I see them taking time they did not have to take, to walk through what happened, and explain their reasoning. That you call any of this "idpol attacks" only gives me reason to think that the original accusation of racism was touching on something real. I should have made that connection earlier, tbh. Sometimes the people most sensitive to being accused of racism are sensitive to it is precisely because they haven't unlearned their racist inclinations (sometimes ones they are unconscious of). I imagine this is the part where you'll decide I'm a bully/thug/scum/scoundrel as well now too, since my judgment is not in favor of your actions.