Lewis Black, my beloved... one of the reasons I went into Stand Up.

Fairly sure the dude is just fishing catch & release

Something to eat please. I'm so hungry. And the thing to eat is a LEAD BULLET.

Well now I'm just confused because that doesn't make any sense. The comments were removed on Midwest.social. My account is not. How am I supposed to click edit on a comment that's on another instance that I don't have an account on?

I'm not 100% what is going on with ban notifications, but you will get some. Mostly from communities but not all. I think it's depending on which instance has implemented that AutoMod function. But none of them tell you that you've been banned from another instance. Hell, it doesn't even show it in my modlog. I had to go to midwest.social and manually search their modlog for myself and THEN see that I was banned. I'm sure I've probably got that on a few other instances.

I abhor racism. I was raised in an exceptionally racist household. I cannot say that I never said the N-word because I did. A lot. But growing up in a hateful echo chamber in a small town on a small island when everyone is so white they sunburn at night? You never see anything to break that mold. First person I met who wasn't white was a Native dude at school when I was like 10ish. He was great, invited me over to his place and I went. Met his family. Every single thing I had been told was a complete lie. Was at that point I started second guessing everything that I was ever taught by my shithole parents. I was furious. I'm still furious. Well over 2/3rd of my life later and I'm incredibly furious. I am not okay with being used, especially against people for no reason. Like hell am I going to try and continue that for other people.

Then there's the fact that I'm gay and have a "vested interest" if you want to put it that way because racism isn't that different from homophobia in how insanely fucking stupid the entire thing is.

But more than anything? It's just a fucked up way to be. I'm a die hard Trekkie. If I watched that show and came away going "Racism is okay!" then I need to be shot.

Then make those posts. Be the change you want to see in the world.

That's the only guess I got.

I went to midwest.social and looked at my own profile. Gives me a general timeframe of when I was banned. One of the last comments I made that was federated to that instance was this comment.

Context is easy to make out, but the dude was saying that constant reporting on deaths in Palestine was unhelpful because it would desensitize everyone to the death and make them expect it.

The only thing I can think of is that one of the admins of midwest.social is aggressively zionist or just completely misunderstood that comment.