Concerned Users of Derpibooru

@Background Pony #CD0B

I’m just curious when will communist imagery be banned. If the stance is to ban all “hateful” things, hammer and sickle should get the boot no less than the swastika did.

Then again, I see some of Dilarus’ images in the vein of “kill all cops” and stuff are not here, so perhaps something is being done?

I mean, the tl;dr of the kind of arguments I’ve seen from staff goes along these lines:

1. “We haven’t had problems with communist posts/communist posts aren’t popular enough. This isn’t about morals or if one is worse than the other, but nazism is bad and hateful btw unlike communism which is not hateful.”
2. “The communist posts don’t promote communism (somehow), they are not the same/held to the same standard as nazi posts. Communist symbolism isn’t as dangerous as nazi symbolism.”
3. “Communism is just socioeconomic theory, communist history, legacy, death tolls, etc isn’t relevant because the ideology itself doesn’t technically promote ethnic cleansing, etc, so its okay. Also stalinism, troskyism, etc are not the same they are totally different and- “
4. “Bringing up communism is whatsaboutism, we are discussing nazi now, communism is unrelated.”
5. “Don’t worry about it kid, if you see something that breaks our loosely defined, contradictory and unclear rules regarding this subject just report it :^)”
6. [Abject silence in the hopes that people are going to tire themselves out and spontaneously go away]

People had to wait until Aryanne was actually posted some before we could get a clear on “Yes, Aryanne with the swastika on her butt is banned”

though the mods themselves clearly haven’t said anything to prove otherwise.

First they came for the Nazis, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Nazi.
Then they came for the edgelords, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t an edgelord.
Then they came for the conservatives, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a conservative.
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up for me.

This is my stance.

First they came for the Nazis, and I celebrated, because fuck Nazis. They’re the reason this poem exists.

And really, after all this acrimony, isn’t it better to try to patch things up with people and work going forward than to try to claim scalps?

And really, after all this acrimony, isn’t it better to try to patch things up with people and work going forward than to try to claim scalps?

Derpy Hooves has made clear in their communication with us that there is a lot of debate going on behind the scenes and probably a lot of other issues/external pressure that we the user base are not privy to.