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.
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skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 year ago[deleted]
hark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 year ago
[deleted]hark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
thoro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Except I can look at your profile and see your first comments were four months ago no matter what you did on your profile in that specific instance.
My lemmy.ml account is meanwhile 3 years old without shenanigans.
It’s not becoming. If anything, Lemmy became more milquetoast, Reddit liberal with the boom in .world accounts from the Reddit migration.
Not dissimilar to what happened with Reddit after the Digg migration, though Reddit was never leftist, just liberal.