For a community that bills itself as
“General discussions about “science” itself
Be sure to also check out these other Fediverse science communities:”
And is full of news articles explaining science, having a biologist explain the science of sex biology is not a right fight for a general science community.
This is a terrible argument if at all, its basically letting bigotry shape the discourse, sure its better to wait official statement on why this happened but “didnt want to deal with comments section” isnt an argument, just plainly whitewashing behavior
Not wanting to platform bigotry is a perfectly valid argument.
As mentioned elsewhere, my initial reaction was BPR which includes over-reactions in charged situations, which the whole trans thing has become thanks to online bigots.
Mod should have locked down the comment section with an explanation why, but seems likely they overreacted. It happens.
But the post is visible for me, even on Science@mander.xyz. Maybe someone else posted it, and the mod let that one stay.
e: it appears someone else posted the same article on mander.xyz. It’ll be interesting to see if the mod deletes that too, then it would be damning.