I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml
So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.
All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned
I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml
So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.
All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned
Correlation is not necessarily causation. A platform getting popular means people holding more mainstream opinions getting into the space, a lot of whom get offended when confronted with the unfamiliar. Now, when it comes to nazis, fuck them, they can get the fuck out with their hateful ideology, but I don’t see why people are so strongly opposed to communists other than buying into propaganda vilifying them.
I think the real communists themselves are rather silly optimists who go “real communism has never been tried”, they’re not harmful per se united their naivety is being exploited.
The problem is that those communists aren’t the ones that get deplatformed. The communists you’ll find on fringe platforms are defending the CCP and other authoritarian regimes purely because those are known for their communism. Criticise some very obvious crimes against humanity, like the Uyghur genocide the entire world is ignoring, and you’ll get accusations of “orientalism”. There are a lot of those over here on Lemmy, when more than there are nazis because the Fediverse has learned to defederate from servers tolerating nazis (often through experience running a Mastodon server).
Except the fervent “anti-tankie” movement here is quick to label anyone to the left of a US democrat as “tankie” and is really aggressive about wanting to defederate from any instance they think leans in that direction.
I find it incredibly annoying. As you implicitly point out, calling everyone to the left a tankie is a great way to dilute the meaning of the word.
Someone who defends Russia for their actions in the Ukraine War and says the US/West or Ukraine is to blame deserves to be relentlessly derided. But communism in itself is hardly focused on something like that. It’s just a subset of individuals who we should all be calling out.