• Vodulas [they/them]@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    I think you read into something I didn’t say. I never said we should remove this video. I was giving context for the reports mods were getting

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      5 months ago

      Fair enough. FWIW, I disagree with the mis-characterized “context” you provided, but I’m uninterested in debating that.

      I just don’t want videos where marginalized people are talking about issues that affect them to be removed, so that’s why I focused on that aspect.

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        5 months ago

        I wasn’t attempting to start a debate, just talking about things i saw him do that could be reasons this would get reported. For the record, i was not one of the folks that reported it. I am willing to give some leeway when someone with a huge platform is edifying marginalized people.

        Vaush is a divisive person, and has a checkered past. I’m glad to hear he has changed, but I, and probably quite a few folks, stopped paying attention to him when he was doing his edgy thing