not the puritanism

They are overwhelmingly from the usa

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.

It’s not that hard just be good faith

There’s plenty of criticism there, although there are also some total Glazers.

What they don’t allow is thoughtless extreme criticism that isn’t based on the material world. In that very thread there are people talking about how the soviet Union declined in its later years.

If you got to lemmy.ml and make some post about the failures of leadership leading to recriminalising lgbt love and culture people will willingly discuss it. Or how there were flaws in their women’s lib attempts that lead to pay disparities and so on.

What they tend to ban is stuff like this where someone just says “instance of terrible thing, therefore whole project bad and doomed” which is a ridiculous and frustrating way to analyse anything.