Dumb Ideologies wrote:To answer the narrow question from the original thread again, as moderators seem incapable of grasping something that should be as obvious as the nose on their face.
It's not remotely acceptable to suggest that people from minority sexual or gender identities need to be given hard labour punishments because their identities are ultimately false, weird, and the product of having too much time on their hands. That is not something the victims of such trolling should be told to "argue down". The ruling is a disgrace and someone needs to act responsibly, reverse the impetuous mistake and admit error if the moderators do not want to be sending a clear message to LGBT posters about the complete lack of respect they hold for them.
On the wider topic of moderating issues of this kind - there are some rough edges, but a very good starting point is to substitute in another identity or perhaps belief-based group and see if it would be acceptable then.
It was a suggestion to voluntarily do some physical labor, not for the government to round up sexual minorities and force them into it as punishment.