Bernie

I am told that it is a slur for white people, though I've never heard it prior to a few days ago, never outside of Imgflip, and as a white person, it does not offend me at all. Someone was comment timered for a comment which contained the word "mayo" and that's where the whole thing started.

Anywho: "Mayo" has become shorthand for uptight and biased site-level moderation that strains to find superficial TOS violations in liberal comments, while overlooking grave patterns of abuse and harassment from right-leaning Imgflippers.

e.g. I was timered for a comment here on PoliticsTOO which consisted of nothing but the word "Mayo" repeated about 36 times, which I posted in solidarity with the #Mayo movement here.

As for me: I could get into the harassment and abuse that's been directed at me specifically over the past several months, that Imgflip has done little or nothing to correct, but I wouldn't want to bore you. I know other liberal Imgflippers could report similar things.

A consequence of being comment-timered, of course, is that you're unable to go around Imgflip debunking the actual racism that is posted to "politics" (especially) on a daily basis. So, timering an anti-racist for erroneous reasons actually helps perpetuate racism on the site.

And a consequence of being comment-timered *enough times* for unclear and superficial reasons is that you start to self-censor, eventually cut back on commenting, or even quit commenting entirely. I have indeed cut back on my comments lately for that reason, and due to the above-mentioned harassment against me that doesn't seem to be taken seriously.

And that's why #Mayo, as silly as it may seem, matters.

#Mayo

here's the comment I was talking about. lol

And that was here in politicsTOO?

yep

the comment wasn't directed at anybody. It was just a supportive comment on someone's mayo meme.

lol

I might be gettin' myself in some good trouble...