To be clear, those comments are clearly against our instance guidelines and we've gone through and removed them. The user was given a temp ban, and a discussion was opened with the rest of the team about making it permanent.

If you have noticed a pattern of some kind, please share it with us. This is the second time in the past few days I've seen a reference to this, so I definitely want to know if there's something we should be doing differently.

We rely on reports to find out about rule breaking content, so please report them to us. If it is urgent, you can message @admin@lemmy.ca

Our current rule around hateful and discriminatory content is as follows:

We do not allow statements that incite or promote hatred against an identifiable group, as defined in the Criminal Code of Canada.

In this section, identifiable group means any section of the public distinguished by colour, race, religion, national or ethnic origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or mental or physical disability.

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-318

We extend this definition to include any group that a reasonable person would recognize as a target of hatred, consistent with the intent of the law. Disagreement and sharp criticism of someone's actions or beliefs are not covered by this rule, as this rule looks for content that targets people based on identity rather than as an individual.

We do not allow content that promotes or endorses hateful ideologies, including racial or religious supremacism, ethnonationalism, genocidal ideology and denialism, and gender-based hate movements. This includes Nazism, neo-Nazism, white nationalism, fascism, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Black racism, Holocaust denialism, residential school denialism, anti-LGBTQ+ hate, and transphobia. The absence of a specific item from this list does not mean it is permitted.

link: https://fedecan.ca/en/guidelines/1-universal-rules#rule-2-hate-and-discrimination