Everyone was correct to call me out on my behavior with that post and the unfortunate choice of words. For that and several personal reasons I am going to be stepping down as an admin on principle. I have told the others to remove the admin role from this account and I thought about deleting it altogether but felt that would be the cowardly way out.

Thank you all and you have my sincerest apologies for not holding myself to the standards we should expect of our admins.

I believe it is more productive to have these things aired publicly so we can get this whole mess sorted as quickly as possible.

This is a good suggestion and one that has been floated but never really materialized. In the current situation I felt this couldn’t really wait and that someone needed to be used as an example.

In the case of the reporter in the image I felt it worthwhile to subject them to being made an example of because it is the exact sort of mindset that has been an insidious problem and I have no remorse for subjecting them to whatever ridicule that may entail. It took me quite some time to come around on feminism and it didn’t come about by people coddling me with kid gloves on the subject.

There was no other appropriate place to post this and it was meant as a public warning against this sort of thing.

If I were to act unilaterally I probably would have just banned this person.

Once again I reiterate there is a zero tolerance policy with regard to misogyny going forward and someone complaining about misandry over a bait post that was clearly crafted to bait the same sort of person that gets their knickers twisted about “misandry” in the badposting comm of all places is an enormous red flag and absolutely strips them of the aforementioned protections granted by the rule that you cited.

Over the next few days it is likely the modlog will, instead, be full of losers getting real mad at the recently adopted zero tolerance stance to misogyny. You might say I am TC69’s strongest soldier and that there is likely to be another round of purges in the coming days.

Check the featured post regarding misogyny.

Misandry isn’t real for the same reason anti-white racism isn’t real. This really should not be hard to understand.

@2812481591@hexbear.net Rule 6 obviously does not apply here.

Care to explain why this bothers you too?

We are cleaning house so if this makes you upset you probably need to do some introspection.

@KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net and anyone else complaining about “misandry” you are all on notice as of yesterday.

Let this serve as an example to self crit and the last place you will be allowed to explain yourself/self crit before you get to go back to account application.

As the pinned threads have stated we are enacting a zero tolerance policy against this line of thought, though if you want to engage in good faith and learn why you are wrong you can do so here.

I will be here in a limited capacity to answer any questions regarding this warning and the new tightening of the rules for a few hours, after that may Marx have mercy on your soul. We are going to be liberally handing out bans regarding this matter going forward so it’s time to take a serious look in the mirror if this upsets you.

lmao how is this spam?

A problem that remains unsolvable

No and kindly face the wall please.

It is done. Though it might be a while before you see it because we have so many now.

From the context it seems that they were referring to pushing back on liberal assumptions about the Tiananmen square incident.

So then the answer is to set up that support system and punish those that would target vulnerable migrants right?

Oh no? You just want to punish people fleeing from violence and impoverishment inflicted on them by our own foreign policy?

Cool. Face the wall please.

If you sit at a table with Nazis.

Yes we have heard what he has to say and we have heard enough to know he is a fascist. Try not to defend cryptofascists on your next account.

The Hexbear militsiya are conducting investigations as we speak, please report any suspicious activity to the Problematic Posting Bureau.

What if I told you I just banned them from Hexbear for being a weirdly hostile little shit?

Correct. Murder is a legal term. Homicide is correct verbage.