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Why supporting the LGBT community is not debatable for ProleWiki

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CriticalResist (talkcontribs)

Some time ago, we completely revamped our verification questions. You can read the new ones here: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Special:RequestAccount.

Essentially, we separated them into primary and secondary tiers. When requesting an account, you have to answer all primary questions, and then pick 5 secondary questions of your choice to answer.

In those primary questions, we specifically chose to keep this one:

  • 4. What is your understanding of gender? Should Marxists support the LGBT community?

To ProleWiki, support for the LGBT community is not a question.

The reason for that is that we have many LGBT comrades helping us out on ProleWiki. If we allowed someone who did not support your community (or worse, openly phobic of it), we would essentially show ourselves to be antagonistic towards LGBT comrades and issues.

How could we reconcile letting our LGBT comrades work alongside people who harbour resentment against them? Even if they don't edit related pages or don't get in conflict with other editors, there is no reason you should have to share a space and work alongside this type of person.

For this amply sufficient reason, there is no way we would let someone who openly condemns the LGBT community receive an account on ProleWiki. Just earlier, we've banned an IP because that person not only tried to request an account 3 times (after we sent him an email about this specific question the first time), but this time told us that they "hate" the LGBT community.

Such a person will never be welcome on ProleWiki.