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I got a 3 day ban from a big sub for saying maybe some old stories are just stories
I posted a comment about how some ancient flood myths might not be proof of a single global event, just a common human fear, and the mods said it was 'historical denialism'. It matters because we can't even ask questions about old texts without getting shut down. Has anyone else been blocked for just suggesting we look at old tales as stories first?
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kim1915d ago
That's wild they called it historical denialism. Flood myths are a great example where the academic view is already that they're separate cultural stories, not proof of one event. Most historians and anthropologists treat them as important myths, not literal history. Getting banned for pointing that out feels like the mods are mixing up religious texts with historical record. Some subs just have a really strict line you can't cross, even if you're just talking mainstream scholarship.
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logan7054d ago
Man, that's crazy. I got a temp ban once for agreeing with someone like kim191 about how we read old poems. Some mods just have a hair trigger, you know?
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