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[–] Praxagora@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

That's from a different section. The exact same wording is still there as of the current version:

Content targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) (in written or visual form) with: [...]

Insults, including those about: [...] Mental characteristics, including but not limited to allegations of stupidity, intellectual capacity, and mental illness, and unsupported comparisons between PC groups on the basis of inherent intellectual capacity.

We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.”

So pending clarification, it seems to say that all insults targeting groups of "protected charactistic(s)" including those about "mental illness" are prohibited - well, except for those against LGBT, 'cause politics and religion. The clause directly above this one goes to rule that you can't call Zuckerberg a coward - that counts as "hateful conduct" - but LGBT peoples can be implied to be "mentally ill" or "abnormal." That's open season. We're just conversational props for "political and religious discourse" and, according to Advocate's interpretation of the changes, can now also be literally compared to an inanimate object.

"Protections against comparing women and LGBTQ+ people to inanimate objects, such as referring to transgender individuals as “it,” have been eliminated. Similarly, statements denying the existence of protected groups or asserting that they “shouldn’t exist” are now permitted under the revised guidelines."

https://www.advocate.com/news/meta-policies-lgbtq-attacks