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shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoSorry but unfortunately it’s two sides of the same coin.
I’m shitting on US and Western imperialism and their love for the Gaza genocide day in day out, had no problem to call the old senile fuck Genocide Joe and I argued against everyone who shilled for Kamala or the “lesser evil“ thing.
You got a lot of hatred for the latter part of .world and I often disagree with their liberal views. I criticized liberal media for fabricating certain narratives and some users thought I’m some MAGA brain damaged idiot.
Anyway so now that you know all of this about me, I’m also criticizing Chinese and Russian imperialism + genocide the same way. I got banned after like 1 comment on .ml for that and they said it’s for “racism“.
I honestly don’t see any difference, it’s just that .world and .ml users picked different teams. And I got banned faster in .ml lol
Diva@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
the Winnie the Pooh comments are racist though, it’s not hard to have substantive critiques of China without constantly falling back on trying to equate the president with a yellow cartoon animal. We don’t have to get into it, but they almost always hand out temp bans for that. For example yours is already expired.
lukewarm_ozone@lemmy.today 2 days ago
That’s a strange assumption to make. “Because it’s forbidden in China” is a sufficient explanation of why people do this. For the exact same reason people will forever keep bringing up the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Ah I love the modlog, convenient that I can see again what happened.
The whole Winnie thing became forbidden in China partly because the meme went super viral on Weibo and they didn’t want people in China to ridicule the supreme leader. Ban me for trolling the mod by equating them to Xi Jinping, I’m fine with that. I will think you should have a thicker skin but whatever. Using racism as a reason to ban me in this context is just censorship.
To provide the context for those too lazy to check the modlog, the comment I’m answering to is straight genocide denial. The Uyghurs are being held in concentration camps, sterilized and their language, religion, and heritage are being wiped out and .ml mods are denying that because it doesn’t fit in their world view.
Diva@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
I’m aware of where the meme came from, personally I think it’s bad taste to be yapping about uguhurs in a thread about the Gaza genocide.
If people were gleefully calling Obama “Tigger” after that, and constantly doing that instead of having a real argument or something to say I think that would start resulting in bans for racism too.
shaserlark@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
They can call Obama a piece of shit as far as I’m concerned.
The mod was kinda right to remove the comment before that because that user is some Hasbara shill and was mentioning the Uyghurs as a deflection.
My issue isn’t with that, my issue is with the formulation “the Uyghur genocide narrative“. That’s literally the same shit that liberal media is saying about Gaza. So that’s what I mean, I’ll always be “yapping“ about the Uyghur genocide the same way I’m “yapping“ about the Ukraine & Gaza genocide. I don’t care who does it, it’s wrong.