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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
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I'm not an Islamaphobic, I'm just not naive to think that Islam isn't less violent than other religions. I can support the people trapped under its weight, while still denouncing the religion...hell I feel that way against most religions because of how oppressive they are. This doesn't make me somehow a religious-phobic of one religion, I just don't like that people are naive of said religion because it's being currently at war with itself and anyone that doesn't agree with it, and tons of innocent people are dying under it. It doesn't give it a pass.
The Christian right is doing the same shit, sans the beheadings and stonings of women and LGBTQ+, here in the USA with removal of LGBTQ+/womens rights, and everyone is in agreement that it's fucked up...yet the same people will defend islam???
Please make that make sense.
I should say that after a review of your post history I'm quite sure we'd get along, I really only included that as an allusion to magnanimity. Religion is a difficult topic, all too often the discussion of any major trend amongst it is rebutted with specific examples of contrary behavior from a subset of the group. Maddening.