This is going to be a fun one.
So here are the facts:
I commented on a news article about a mother and adult son charged with incest (and adultery as well for her.) This is what I said:
Someone responded to me and I replied before I realized my original comment was removed for being inappropriate. Then I added the edit when I saw.
The next day I discovered I’d been banned from that community for “pro-incest comments” and several others I don’t think I’ve ever been in for rule 4 violations. The orignal post was removed.
You can see those here:
Site rule 4 is: Usernames or posts/comments containing transphobia, homophobia, sexism, racism, ableism, zionism, anti-veganism, or trivializing COVID. No self-described or obvious fascists, conservatives, or reactionaries.
My comments had none of those things. I’d even go so far as to say my banning was reactionary.
Now, I’m not defending incest, especially not for myself. My problem is with puritanical laws interfering with the private sex lives of people. In my original comment I stated that grooming was a separate issue and should be dealt with, but that there is nothing inherently wrong with incest. That is, enthusiastic consensual sex between capable adults.
I know someone will bring up the Hapsburgs, so yes, children of incest should be avoided.
Idk Americans can be a bit puritanical and weird about stuff. A lot of them never remove their christian brainworms.
Some coms are on a hair trigger though because people that know the age of consent in ever jurisdiction often have a weird interest in bringing up all the ways that doing something something sexually transgressive that might involve grooming is actually cool and good.
Hexbear probably isn’t the place to discuss this stuff because they’re very defensive of the community vibes and safety of users, and also weirdly puritanical sometimes.
I think it’s probably mod overreach your position seems clear that grooming is bad and you’re discussing theoretical other scenarios but in the context of the article it’s understandable that the timeout would happen.
fwiw I think incest is a crime because it’s a blunt legal instrument to just easily protect people from a lot of extremely nasty scenarios.
There’s multiple comments about American puritanism but OP got banned from hexbear communities
They are overwhelmingly from the usa
And they’re overwhelming against US customs
not the puritanism
Given incest is incredibly popular on all the tube sites, the lady doth protest too much, methinks. Same goes for Americans claiming they’re not attracted to 20 year olds at the ripe old age of 30, but also transphobia and homophobia. A short summary of their browsing history would probably be illuminating.