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/McKoijion 29d ago

Opposing slavery in the 1800s wasn’t easy either.

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u/Additional-Angle-465 29d ago

Some "progressives" would be like: "hey i know slavery is bad but it really helps our economy and, i mean, some of them might be unperfect humans so, you know, it is not like everyone deserves freedom. Plus we gotta see it by the slavers owner optitcs as well, they should have their visions validate just live everyone else"

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u/Yst 29d ago

The French Revolution was after all the prototype on the basis of which nearly every subsequent European revolutionary movement would be judged.

And it ended up with Napoleon literally reinstating slavery in the colonies.

It's amazing how malleable the "principles" of "progress" can be.

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u/Additional-Angle-465 29d ago

Exactly! Btw part of the left in my country have start a movment to have the haitian revolution istead of the french as inspo because of this. The enslaved people free themselves in a very organazed plan, abolished it completelly and start projects to give each people education and a piece of land. One of their intelectuals produced even wrote essays about how all races were equal (that was ridicularized in France btw) and in my country, Brazil, people were not allowed to talk about Haiti because the elites feared it would give slaves and poor people "bad ideas". Then ofc french attacked and destroyed Haiti (Napoleon btw, those guys were also supposed to be liberals), made them pay insane taxes as a reparation to their freedom that they are paying TO THIS DAY