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I don't think I really need to explain much, their admins are transphobic. stalin-smokin

https://hexbear.net/post/1587342

Snowe, an admin, complained about a transgender person being offended over being misgendered. Ategon made an apology post but keeps snowe on, no public apologies from snowe to the transgender people affected.

Textbook very-smart

note: conversation about Ategon's use of the word triggered edited out, might be misunderstanding, need clarified

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[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm not well-informed on this specific issue so I'll leave the specifics to those who are.

How to respond to unacceptable behavior is a recurring problem on all sorts of issues, though, and I think focusing on apologies is misguided. I've seen tons of insincere apologies and tons of sincere apologies that are criticized for not being enough. The priority (to me) seems like it should be stopping the behavior and addressing any damage done.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Makes sense to me, I see an apology as the smallest thing to do

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 9 points 10 months ago

I was thinking something along those lines, too -- I've seen apologies used to deflect from doing anything substantive to address the problem. "We've apologized, what do you want??"