Now that this community has mods, I think we should come to something approaching a consensus on whether there should be a rule against posting “nice” comics from transphobic and other kinds of bigoted artists. People like Stonetoss and Jago who have a lot of innocent-looking relatable comics, but also post the most mean, bigoted propaganda.

And I’d like to present a third option besides yes and no: one might post comics from bigoted artists after removing the artist credit, if the mods think that’s a good compromise.

  • RustyNova@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 days ago

    I hate this book burning mentality. It’s not because the person is bad that the content is nessarly bad. Like, if war and peas’s author turned out to be transphobic, would that automatically turn all of their comics bad?

    Although it doesn’t mean that hate and bigoted comics shouldn’t be banned. That part is the actual offensive part.

    And removing credits is actually scummier than posting bigoted comics imo

    For reference, this is not to shill those persons. I’m literally trans and bi. I’m actually concerned with what those are artists are against.

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 days ago

      You know, the books the Nazis burned were from the library of Magnus Herschfeld, the director of the Berlin Sexology Institute. He was gay, and much of the library was ABOUT queerness, and transgender studies.

      The comic strips we’re talking about aren’t being destroyed. But a lot of trans people in the world are, and they risk themselves simply by being who they are.

      That is more worthwhile than access to edgy comics on a public forum like this. Better that far-right stuff gets blocked, than trans people getting burned.

      It’s okay for a forum to have a political position. I’d prefer it to be left of center.