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.
Yeah… ever heard that one long standing theory that homosexuals are that way because they were “groomed” or raped when kids? Then you have sodomy laws because people can’t possibly in good conscience consent to that abomination blah blah blah, same mindset of the self appointed gods of “meaningful consent” that believe they somehow have authority over other people to define what they can consent to or not… these guys here (https://stonetoss.com/comic/no-choice/) they also believe they are fighting grooming and rape, that’s actually their whole rhetoric, consenting adults can’t want to do what their minds can’t conceive, so you can reply if you want, we are no longer talking about the moderation here, but I’m not engaging further because I see no difference between you to them.
Yeah the fact that people use a similar argument, in bad faith with assumptions that aren’t remotely true, doesn’t really concern me.
Believe it or not, it’s possible to arrive at conclusions based off reason and evidence, and not just, “That sounds vaguely similar to something a shitty person said, therefore the vibes are bad and it must be wrong.”
If you look at cases of incest, there’s very often clear evidence of grooming. That evidence does not exist with homosexuality. It’s not at all comparable.