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Arguably the disingenuity happened a step further up already. How is it fair to describe the protests as being "against the knifing of schoolgirls"? Were the protesters asking someone to please knife fewer schoolgirls?
Conflating actions against X with actions against some Y which the actor holds to be correlated with X is one of the most basic dirty political tricks. This is what gets you "How can you be against (surveillance law)? Are you against fighting child pornographers?", or the same with police abolition and killing non-violent black druggies.
I concur that this is a pretty bad look from a moderator, and would really like the mods to look past the +44 upvotes and fawning u-go-girl responses and consider that this sort of thing is enabling/deepening bad tendencies in the community.
Because the protests were against the knifing of schoolgirls and the policies that have enabled a decades-long campaign of mass knifing/rape/bombing/truck massacres of schoolgirls?
I don't understand how this is even a question if you can accept that the Floyd riots were "being against police brutality"
Where did I indicate that I accept the Floyd riots as being "against police brutality"? I don't, and I accept maybe a small sliver of the protesters as protesting against it (many more of the peaceful ones being protesters for lower policing standards against black people, drug users, or general).
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Obligatory low heat take drop that moderators not using the mod hat are allowed to make low quality posts. We are moderated by men, not gods.
Mid-quality, perhaps. I think it gets iffy when they make posts that would be more than, say, 30% likely to get a modhat warning if they came from the wrong political alignment and were not made by a mod, because I don't think mods do (or can really be expected to do) issue modhat warnings to fellow mod.
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