ahh, thanks. i’ll delete this post as i clearly didn’t do my research.

hmm maybe! they should try harder in my non-insider opinion 😭

hmmm ok i see that reasoning i guess. threw me for helluva loop tho.

imo if ur gonna change the display name then just change the comm name too. cuz this looks really iffy haha.

nope i double checked the reddit community before posting

note that the problem is that “white” is excluded from the display name, which could imply things about what mods believe about non-white folk.

No problem! It’s definitely confusing and attitudes on all sides don’t help the situation. I also was once a very confused outsider so glad my comment could help one other confused person 😅😅

Excellent ! 💃💃💃 Keep it up

Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Sexually_Identify_as_an_Attack_Helicopter :)

It’s mine and the mods’ belief that the post is satire of the Helicopter meme (making fun of transphobic conservatives along with the community’s significantly trans makeup as a whole)

In contrast OP believes that the post is 100% genuine, and is nothing more than another iteration of the Helicopter meme a priori

If you think a pinned comment that says “trans rights are human rights, transphobia will be banned” (which the mods already did, just too late till after OP fully formed an opinion on the situation) and nothing more, is explaining the joke, then sure. I would love to see the joke explained.

Not much else to say, Have a great day. :)

Awesome, well have a nice day.

here you go https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/12942107 first one i could find.

anywhere else on the internet such a post would be incredibly inappropriate, due to its obvious warping of the “trans agenda.” but in context, it’s self satire. you are certainly allowed to be uncomfortable with it, but i would never accuse the OP of being genuinely transphobic.

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I think it’s just more possible than you might think from your POV that people are just utterly confused what is going on. Happened to me once and then I figured it out, so I try to give a couple seconds of good faith to help them out.

Not what I said, you conveniently left out the example immediately following this sentence. Please engage with me in context or not at all.

No. It’s equivalent to self satirical content you would see on c/196 or c/egg_irl, as I said.

Dude just be nice OP is a person who is understandably misunderstanding a very confusing situation. Escalating like this just makes people more angry on all fronts.

TLDR: It’s literally just satire. OOP is making fun of conservatives and transphobes.

Yeah, it’s a common confusion. It took me a second to understand that they are just really into their special interest. Everything there is satire, to the extent that I think there is a rule that states “no serious posting.” It’s an incredibly abnormal community, and due to the deep and layered level of satire, they are heavy-handed with moderation because people mistake the satire for genuineness and try to get them banned.

Since some of the content may use the aesthetics of bigotry, for example, lots of jokes about mass murder and, as you see here, transphobia, I believe you’re allowed to feel uncomfortable with it. However, the evidence I have seen doesn’t indicate that any of it is genuine. If you are familiar with c/196 or c/egg_irl and have seen some of the satirical self-criticism in relation to trans identitiesthere, that’s the kind of vibe they have, but for planes and tanks and shit.

I don’t know. I subscribe because I find it interesting, and I haven’t seen anything nearly as hateful as what I have seen on like, !world@lemmy.world since I figured out what their deal was.

Having said that, I do wish that @nuke@sh.itjust.works would be slightly more transparent with what the community is about in order to avoid this kind of situation. They could put pinned comments under posts like this, stating that transphobia will not be tolerated and similar. (nuke if you are reading this, just like, consider it. Your community is well moderated from what I have seen but the attitude of the moderation doesn’t help outsiders get what is going on.)