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I don't see where the mods made them change it. (Edit: I see it now. If you check the edit history on the post, it shows who made the edits, in this case it was DIscourse mod wild_man.)
Also, why is this a link to reddit?
The post on Mastodon has a screenshot of the post edit history:
And a copy-pasted response from a moderator (the most relevant bit):
Consider the following: no, they don't.
People unironicly think being trans is a political statement. People are really dumb.
Crazy statement, if we accept the gays we should accept the nazis too.
Our terminal liberalism forbids us from saying one thing is better or worse than another thing !
You have to understand, it just wouldn't be fair to put inclusion over exclusion ! You care about equality, don't you?
Sure, up to the point where they harass someone or attack them, or have a history of doing so. A belief of "I think some people do not deserve to exist" is different from a belief of "People should be allowed to X" or "People who Y should not be harassed". A nazi sympathizer who thinks nazis shouldn't be attacked is fine, a nazi who attacks others is not.
Nah, fuck nazis. They don't deserve to exist.
I agree in principle, but you're not going to win any battles with that mindset. They'll just respond with "so much for the tolerant left". Victimization is a beloved pastime for them.
A brick is approaching a Nazi's teeth from an initial distance of 10m horizontally and a velocity of 10m/s. You may assume the absence of air resistance and treat the brick as a point mass.
Calculate the initial angle(s) required to remove the most teeth and determine whether the Nazi can complain about the tolerant left before a brick removes their ability to speak.
This response is entirely unhelpful. Yes. Fuck nazis. I get it. This adds nothing. Nazis are bad, but we must coexist with them, lest we round them all up and get rid of them, which isn't gonna happen. If it were that easy, we'd have done it already!
We may have to coexist with them from a logistical standpoint but we do not have to tolerate them. The paradox of tolerance is that we must not tolerate the intolerant.
But there aren't any political flags on there...
The flag wasn't removed?
I take offense at this. I am autistic, this mod in question is just a bigot.
~~What I want to know now is whether this mod is associated with Canonical in any capacity.~~
On further research, this happened on the official Ubuntu boards, not Reddit as the link here implies. That makes this even more egregious. Canonical employees and official Ubuntu maintainers are responsible for this brazen homophobia. I gave up Ubuntu some time ago over Snaps and other creepy capitalist behavior, but this is a new low I didn’t expect from them.
People, don’t use Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, or anything from Canonical. It you need Debian compatibility try Mint or Debian, otherwise try Fedora. Bazzite is also amazing if all you do is play games. Canonical is just as evil and corrupt as the other big companies.
I'm not sure why you're moralizing so hard. I dont use ubuntu or any of their products.
In the first line I was attempting to make a joke, since I am autistic and the mod - or mods - clearly are bigots.
The post-strikethrough comments aren't directed at you, but at the disgusting behavior of Canonical. I'm sincerely sorry if I didn't make that part quite clear. ☹️
I remember earlier this year when conservatives used autism to justify elon's nazi salutes.
Don't be like that.
I'm still pissed about this. they didn't give half a shit about being considerate about autism before
It's neat how the surest way to get a drive by internet autism diagnosis is just to do something bigots like.
That response does not appear on the Ubuntu site. There is no source on the mastodon paste.
The OP on Mastodon shared screenshots of the replies (can't tell if they were originally in the forum post, or if it's a DM):
https://nextcloud.aztinet.eus/s/sxqEDJDZGp7a9rx
Okay, that's pretty difficult to read but it's something.
But I checked the Ubuntu Discourse thread just now, and the statement "I am queer" has been restored by a mod. Hopefully the other mods are reminded of the policies they're supposed to be following.