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Banned for calling out a Zionist
(lemmy.world)
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.
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Ahhh, it was the app not showing the other screen shot, but what that one shows is you going after someone unprovoked.
Essentially, your own post is showing you harassing someone. So, definitely a YDI situation.
Now, I get it, you want to be active against an ideology that you believe is harmful. That part is fine.
But it absolutely is not fine to just follow people around and harass them everywhere, when they aren't displaying that ideology.
If you have a serious concern about a user, the only acceptable way to go about handling it is to contact the admins of their instance and show them that not only is your belief fact based, but that the person is guilty of something worthy of having their account shut down.
The mods in the community you were in, based on what you did, were absolutely right to take action. If anything, for someone that engaged in both an attack without direct, in-thread cause,, and as an attack of harassment, you got off light. That's the kind of behavior that merits a permanent ban in my book. You don't do that, it's disruptive and destructive to any community it happens in. It's a violation of the basic social contract of how communities work.
You should have brought the problem to the attention of the mods, if you felt that the person shouldn't be allowed to comment there, not just go off because you tagged someone that you don't like
Serious. With you having tagged the person, them not having said anything espousing a "zionist" stance in that thread, that is 100% harassment. Hell, if your instance admins shut down your account, it would be well within their scope, if they have anti-harassment rules in place.
I mean, I'm sitting here as someone that has said it was a mistake at the end of ww2 to not kill every nazi in every country, and if someone was following someone around just making unsupported claims that someone else was a nazi, I'd ban the fuck out of them on any community I mod. Then I'd go look and see if they're right, and ban the Nazi if it was true.
You can't do that shit, it isn't acceptable.