A few days ago I made a post to gauge this community’s opinion on whether it should allow nice comics by bigoted artists. I think we have a consensus.

The majority of comments were very in support of banning comics by artists like Stonetoss and Jago. I heard from queer people who said they’d feel safer if the rules were changed. A lot of people were concerned about this community becoming a “Nazi bar”, the comment expressing that feeling got a LOT of upvotes.

The people against the change had two main arguments: anti-censorship, and personal responsibility. A few people equated active moderation practices with book burning. Nearly all of these “against” comments were downvoted or ratiod, and tended to have a lot of arguments underneath them, while the “pro” comments went uncontested.

On the internet, 10% of people will disagree with just about anything. With that in mind, I think we’ve reached a consensus. The community wants a rule change so that users can’t post inoffensive comics by bigoted artists.

That means no more Jago comics. I see a lot of people in the comments under the Jago posts, getting angry and saying they want this rule change. People aren’t happy with the user who’s posting all the Jago comics.

Mods, this is what we want. Please change the rules and get Jago’s comics outta here.

  • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
    227·
    5 days ago

    I’m not sure we need to keep adding rules just for one artist. if the consensus is to ban Jago comics for their content, then that seems like a good decision.

    however “bigoted” seems to mean a wide variety of different things now. and it seems that some people are ok with some darker forms of humor than others.

    jago is well known for making comics specifically to try and piss people off. but I feel that dark humor should not be banned.

    edit: No Jago is not dark humor. Yes Jago comics should be banned from the instance. please stop likening me to a bigot just because my brain is spicy and I have difficulty explaining shit sometimes. thank you.

      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
        12·
        5 days ago

        I’d rather they not be banned, but down voted to oblivion and the comment section highlight the fallacies and falsehoods that it presents and perpetuates.

          • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
            16·
            5 days ago

            We’ve been censoring social media left and right, putting our heads into sand, and look how well that turned out?

            Pushing nazis, incels and bigots into their own little niche spaces and letting them fester is what got us where we are. I’d rather educate, shame and call out in public.

            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              5 days ago

              There’s plenty of places to find nazis, incels, and bigots. It’s called “most platforms.” No one is under any obligation to platform hate or to welcome the hateful. Go find another bar if you want one with nazis.

    • Nalivai@lemmy.world
      113·
      5 days ago

      however “bigoted” seems to mean a wide variety of different things now

      No, no it’s not, there is a very clear definition of that. However, bigots like to muddy that in order to make their bigotry more social acceptable, but it’s important to not fall for that. It has the same “the left just calling everyone nazi this days therefore nobody is a nazi” ring to it, that nazis used to normalise nazism.

      • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        i had someone call me a terf cause I said I didn’t like a TV show they did. that’s what I mean. there’s someone clearly being bigoted (like the artist Jago which should be banned from the instance) but not all dark artists rely on being a misogynistic fuck. some just genuinely think darker topics are entertaining. and some are.

        that is why I am asking for is leniency on dark humor. (NOT JAGO. HIS COMICS SHOULD BE BANNED. I HAVE TO CLEARLY SPELL THIS OUT SINCE PEOPLE ARE READING OVER THIS POINT, APPARENTLY.)