Also offensive: pointing out that English speakers do not use the word “American” to refer to people from Latin America. The term in our language is universally used to refer to people from the country America.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    Eh, it is what it is.

    ML is pretty well known for mods either power tripping, or at least pushing the boundaries to the edge.

    This one could go either way.

    Technically the comment was a rule violation, so removing the comment isn’t totally power tripping.

    The problem is that your comment was the least political in the whole damn thread. Like, even my comment was a tad more political than yours, depending on how you look at it. And even that was way less than dessalines’ tangent.

    The entire post was about language and word usage, and your comment definitely was not political, nor was it in any way rude or insulting.

    I’m still really surprised your comment got reported/removed, but mine didn’t. It was confusing as hell when I came back after a response and saw yours gone.

    So, yeah, definitely PTB. If they’d nuked everyone, I could see it being clueless mods, but targeting yours just means they got a report and wiped it, so that’s dumber than dammit, even if it wasn’t a literal power trip