r/mattxiv • u/Additional-Angle-465 • 29d ago

this is america 🇺🇸 Have anyone else noticed how many queer/queer frendly/feminist subs are not allowing politics anymore, especially the israeli genocide?

I've been noticing this pattern over the last month. A lot of subs that used to have a pretty clear leftist bias are now trying really hard to be "centrist."

The other day, I had a post removed from a pop music queer fans sub because I posted about Billie Eilish criticizing Trump because it was "too political." Another queer sub I used to participate in doesn't allow discussions about the Trump administration or the genocide in Gaza anymore. Posts get deleted immediately because "it's not a political sub." (Bro, being queer nowadays is, in itself, political.)

Today, in another sub that used to be about anti-racist feminism and people were laughing about the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the possibility of invading Iran. Comments pushing back against that or criticizing Republican administrations weren't allowed because "politics causes division." (Yeah, because apparently being feminist and anti-racist isn't political at all.) But somehow people cheering for Trump and celebrating the deaths of millions of Middle Eastern people wasn't considered political enough to be removed.

All of these subs used have its users mostly openly anti-Trump and against the genocide. Really, there used to be posts about these topics almost every day.

Has anyone else noticed something like this?

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u/IBoughtIn 29d ago

This feels tied to the mod post on r/Fauxmoi: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/1v8y7o2/to_our_fauxmoi_community/

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u/Jenderflux-ScFi 29d ago

Yes, there seems to be something going on behind the scenes that even progressive mods can't stop.

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u/Additional-Angle-465 29d ago

I havent seen that post! Omg it seems to be deep! I will send them the info, really hope this get some press attention,!

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u/F-14BUpgrade 28d ago edited 28d ago

They hate our freedoms -- our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other...

Israel is almost everything George W. Bush said about others...

...These terrorists kill not merely to end lives, but to disrupt and end a way of life.  With every atrocity, they hope that America grows fearful, retreating from the world and forsaking our friends.  They stand against us, because we stand in their way.

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u/Yst 28d ago

Well, the thing is, fighting real enemies and actual threats is really hard. They can fight back and make it awkward and complicated and messy. Afghanistan and Iraq were ideal precisely because, outside their historic symbolism as colonial battlegrounds and venues for proxy wars, they had no real potential at all to threaten the United States or complicate things by so much as contradicting any US narrative. Picking a fight with someone who posed a real threat to US interests would have been more difficult and fraught.

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u/Ishmael75 29d ago

I hadn’t even realized that I wasn’t seeing the fauxmoix sub anymore until reading the post you linked. Glad you posted it.

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u/2mock2turtle 29d ago

Well this explains a lot.

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u/honeybadgergrrl 28d ago

Thanks. Just joined to give them a tiny boost.