WSO Censorship

I recently made a post titled "Damaged Goods." In it, I provided a summary of a redpill youtuber's famous video called "Women who are Damaged Goods." The summary included why these women exist, what are the tangible/intangible characteristics, and why you should avoid them.

The post was simply advice to young, impressionable men who could benefit from learning about probable red flags. The post garnered support but as expected, there was plenty of pushback in the comments as well. However, ensuing discussions/debates remained civil.

The statements in the post were obviously opinionated, and exceptions always exist. Most importantly, the post did not in any way attack women possessing said "damaged" characteristics. All it said was here are the characteristics, and here is why you shouldn't get into any serious relationship with women possessing such characteristics. 

Yet, somehow, within hours of the post being created, I quickly noticed that WSO began shadow banning it. For some reason, even when new comments were created, the post did not reappear at the top of the off-topic forum. Worse yet, the post was completely removed by WSO the following day due to violation of ambiguous community guidelines.

What's interesting is that WSO community guidelines do not even make any explicit mention of sexist/racist posts being unacceptable. But again, by definition, the post could not even be labeled as sexist because it did not attack women in any way. What WSO community guidelines do include is a rule stating the prohibition of any political/religious posts. Hmm...and yet there are plenty of extremely heated political/religious posts still up.

So ironically, the anti-redpill phrase "who hurt you" is extremely applicable here. In this situation, whose feelings did I hurt? Was it the feelings of some fellow users and/or the moderator whose girlfriends/wives possess some of the damaged characteristics? I thought finance, out of all industries, was supposed to be the place where you had to have very thick skin. To me, the funny part is that there are plenty of way more controversial and offensive posts (religious, political, social, etc.) on WSO that stay up without any issues even with way more traction and pushback. So why was this particular post removed? I guess it's what happens when you drop the cold hard truth that many simply can't handle.

Keep in mind, not having the characteristics that were included in the post would have been seen as an obvious prerequisite for a wife just 50 years ago. Goes to show you how far the decay of Western civilization has come. But I understand that times change and so do norms. That's why pushback was totally anticipated and responded to in a civil manner. But to outright censor the post via deletion?

What happened to freedom of speech? What happened to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it?" I thought WSO was supposed to be one of the last lines of defense against censorship. Do better WSO.