I do disagree. The two examples in question, for me, are the exact reason.

They served as honeypots and litmus test the problematic folks. The mod team did act in the end. The offender was banned.

Comparing to Reddit (any any other social media, really), the mod team is doing great work. I commend them!

There will be reactionary people in our midst. We weed (purge) them out and life goes on.

Just for a little context, I’m Brazillian and here, TERF doesn’t roll off the tongue, so we usually call them Radfems or Rads.

But we usually mean that, Rads = TERFs, even if it’s a misnomer.

It shows me that the person is quite ignorant on three things:

• on the very material they are comparing against;
• on the history to pull from other things to compare against;
• on recognizing that we are talking about actual human beings, their problems and plighs, instead of some Hollywood movie film.

I do like the exploratory part of fiction, like “what if X was real” and stretch it as far as it goes. But no, sometimes, we can use parable as a way to understand a little better facets of things, but not it as a whole. That’s where I think people miss the forest for their Voldemort shaped trees.

As a Brazilian that plays videogame on some LATAM servers, I can say that I can only be so courteous after being called a monkey constantly by my Argentinian teammates.

Some friends reminded me of when Luis Suárez and Messi called Neymar “Conguitos” when playing for Barcelona. So, even at the high level, some of this shit happens.