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Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out)

ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

When you say “queer friendly”, are you, the admin of the instance, gender diverse and thus directly impacted by Rowling’s transphobia? Because that’s the only voice that I’m open to hearing “queer friendly” from when it comes to Potter and Rowling.

If you’re not impacted by her bigotry, you have no place claiming that it’s queer friendly, whilst actively refusing to engage with the reality of her transphobia.

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kawa@reddeet.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So you have to be part of the queer movement to be queer friendly ? Please go gatekeep something else

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- DmMacniel@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  No but it’s easier to determine if something is queer friendly or not. If you are just an outsider how can you accurately say what’s queer friendly?
  
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  - berg@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    So if I’m not both a woman and a man I can’t see sexism? That’s an easy way out of responsibility.
    
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  - kawa@reddeet.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    It’s extremly easy to determine if something is “queer friendly” or not, event if you’re not a queer yourself. By your flawless logic, I should not be able to discern the presence of racism in a KKK meeting because I’m not black lol.
    
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blueberry@diagonlemmy.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No, I’m not. With “queer friendly” I wanted to signal my good intentions here. I don’t want to call it a safe space, because I’m not able and also not willing to provide this. Possibly in the future there will be other H.P. instances that are also safe® spaces.

So yeah, “queer friendly” is more like a ideal/commitment that I want to try to hold rather than a promise/claim. Or that what was I tried to do here.

If you have a different phrase that could reflect this more accuratly, I will be happy to consider it.

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- ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Then blocking it will be!
  
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HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Their rules post also doesn’t say anything about transphobic content whatsoever

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- Chozo@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Why lie about something that we all can easily verify for ourselves?
  
  Rule 1: Before using the website, remember you will be interacting with actual, real people and communities. DiagonLemmy.Social is not a place for you to attack other groups of people. Every one of our users has a right to browse and interact with the website and all of its contents free of treatment such as harassment, bullying, racism, antisemitism, discrimination, transphobia, hate speech, violation of privacy or threats of violence.
  
  https://diagonlemmy.social/post/108
  
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  - HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah yeah the one line, you’re right.
    
    What I should’ve said is that I’d expect something more substantial, distancing the community from Rowlings stance.
    
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    Chozo@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    "The rule isn't there!"
    
    "Yes it is."
    
    "Okay, but now the rule should be something more that I just now decided on."
    
    Like, my guy... It's a community for people who want to discuss a story about wizards and magic. What do they need to do to score with these shifting goalposts, take a blood pact denouncing Rowling? They already said no transphobic content is allowed. That already covers it.
    
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- hal_5700X@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  They do. It’s the first rule.
  
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NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No one cares what you think

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