this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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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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I actually wanted to reach out to the mods and ask what's up before posting this. But Lemmy's lack of a modmail feature means when I want to contact mods, I have to direct message them individually. And it looks like all the mods of that community are inactive, with the most recent one only having been active 2 months ago. So I wouldn't even know who to reach out to.
YDI. Seems like a really dumb take. AFAIK to many folks (not from the USA) North Americans are from Canada, USA, Mexico combined with the Central and South American countries, they are collectively known as The Americas. Everyone in the Americas is American in the same sense that all Africans are African despite there being many countries. The arrogance of USAsians co-opting the name of the whole continent of The Americas as though they are the only country that matters is kind of mind boggling.
The thread was literally asking "hey, what are the right words to use to refer to people from America". Even if my take was wrong (and I maintain in the strongest terms that it was not...see my reply to @[email protected]) it was a respectful input to the discussion at hand. "YDI" is the dumbest of dumb takes. Contributing to a thread about a given topic with input on that topic does not deserve a ban and to have your opinion silenced.
You going on racist rants, calling spanish speakers arrogant (which you've done twice now), is not anything we will ever allow on lemmy.ml.
Also the absolute gall of someone calling spanish speakers arrogant, when it's the US who's trying their best to exclude them from a designation they call themselves.
Not only does that not say what you claim it does, it's also deeply inaccurate. Fuck's sake.
Ya. Both of those qualities represent an incredibly recognizable pattern.
The arrogance is when Spanish speakers say that English speakers are wrong for speaking English. The arrogance is you coming here and insisting everything to do with the English language is evil without needing to actually evaluate the specifics of the situation.
A Spanish speaker going about their day saying "estadounidense" is not arrogant, and at no time did I assert that they were.