"He was (potentially) trolling, but if noone took the bait..."

Ah yes, let's just excuse the inciting actions and blame the targets of harassment!

You are a victim blaming moron, and you've made it perfectly clear right there.

Good God. Okay, you asked for a response, here is it.

An alternative perspective is that the "pronouns cannot relate to imaginary creatures" is gender gatekeeping. Drag was potentially trolling, but if nobody ever took the bait, nothing would have happened.

Using unusual pronouns was never the issue. It's insanely common on blahaj for people to use neopronouns, and nobody bats an eye, because it's normal. Pretending that being trans is equivalent to being a dragon (along with things like encouraging other users to self-harm, because of course this person did, because they are a troll and trying to be cruel to trans people) was the issue.

I cannot fathom how me repeating this for the nth time here is somehow going to make a difference, but whatever. You said something, I've replied. Can I go now?

People brought justifications

Fair enough, there were some things that people justified, I shouldn't have said "nothing" I guess. My argument is that there was a ton of stuff that was not justified, and some of the criticism once we got down to actual events motte-and-baileyed its way back from "he is a Zionist who deletes any criticism of Israel and a transphobe" and into "he gets mad arguing about politics and I don't like that", and some of it was literal just random abuse and cursing at him, not connected to any type of event or behavior at all.

Direct attacks are usually removed

Direct attacks in some contexts are removed. In other contexts, they're allowed. That was my point. I'm actually fine with either policy, broadly speaking, but starting to forbid mild attacks towards friends and allow wild, profane, fact-free attacks towards enemies is a bad road to start to go down. That was much more the core of my point.

You had your politics but you weren’t dishonestly attacking

I'm am going to be honest with you, I didn't expect you to make this kind of comments

Pretending that PJ is pro-Israel is flagrantly dishonest. It's also working very well. That's a good example. Not sure what your complaint here is, I don't really want to dig through the thread picking out stuff that's objectively untrue, but that's one example if you're saying you don't believe me about it.

Also, not sure why it's not okay for dbzer0 to have a "our users" stance while you broadly categorize all .ml users as "losers"

I addressed this already, I never said people who care about politics are losers. I am a person that argues way too much on and off the internet about politics. My point was that for lemmy.ml to suddenly feel like caring about and arguing about politics on the internet makes someone a weirdo is just another example of the sort of tribal "it's fine with I do it, but when you do it it is evidence you're some kind of terrible thing" thinking that I am trying to call out.

Satisfied? I've already talked about literally all of this, I'm not interested in going back and forth about it just without end. But sure, there's your response if you want one.