They don’t ban anyone denying Palestinian genocide despite it having literally infinitely more evidence than Xinjiang where not even one single death is confirmable in a far larger land mass where nearly 100% of the population have smartphones.
The only thing you can take from that is that genocide denial is not the real reason this person was banned, but instead holding a position that is contrary to the lemmyworld worldnews modteam. They hold the position that Xinjiang’s ““genocide”” is real and you’re not allowed to deny it. They do not hold the position that Palestinian genocide is real, therefore denying it is 100% ok.
It’s a US supremacist way of moderating. Denying the genocides that the US has labelled as genocides (even though it’s officially backtracked on that) is not allowed. Denying the genocides that the US denies however is completely allowed. They probably aren’t even self-aware that this is the way they’re moderating, they just think it’s normal, it’s background american supremacism baked into their behaviour and normalised in their lifestyles. They probably haven’t even ever thought about the contradiction.
Ive tried asking the lib I know if he thinks it’s a bizarre coincidence his views correlate highly with the state department he claims he hates; he does actually think it’s a coincidence
Nationalism remains the #1 thing that must be fought against in the west. Unaddressed unconscious nationalism is at the root of all support for imperialism. The moment that people sweep away their nationalist brainworms and become an internationalist is the exact moment that they fully become one of us. Even when they are uneducated. Even when they know no Marx at all. Internationalism aligns anyone with us with no other feature necessary, absolutely every single thing we believe sprouts from the seed of internationalism.
They don’t ban anyone denying Palestinian genocide despite it having literally infinitely more evidence than Xinjiang where not even one single death is confirmable in a far larger land mass where nearly 100% of the population have smartphones.
The only thing you can take from that is that genocide denial is not the real reason this person was banned, but instead holding a position that is contrary to the lemmyworld worldnews modteam. They hold the position that Xinjiang’s ““genocide”” is real and you’re not allowed to deny it. They do not hold the position that Palestinian genocide is real, therefore denying it is 100% ok.
It’s a US supremacist way of moderating. Denying the genocides that the US has labelled as genocides (even though it’s officially backtracked on that) is not allowed. Denying the genocides that the US denies however is completely allowed. They probably aren’t even self-aware that this is the way they’re moderating, they just think it’s normal, it’s background american supremacism baked into their behaviour and normalised in their lifestyles. They probably haven’t even ever thought about the contradiction.
Ive tried asking the lib I know if he thinks it’s a bizarre coincidence his views correlate highly with the state department he claims he hates; he does actually think it’s a coincidence
Nationalism remains the #1 thing that must be fought against in the west. Unaddressed unconscious nationalism is at the root of all support for imperialism. The moment that people sweep away their nationalist brainworms and become an internationalist is the exact moment that they fully become one of us. Even when they are uneducated. Even when they know no Marx at all. Internationalism aligns anyone with us with no other feature necessary, absolutely every single thing we believe sprouts from the seed of internationalism.
In some case you can get called a tankie for having the exact same official positions the US State Department has.