Comment on Me watching someone on Lemmy getting cooked for having the same opinion as me:

Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Lemmy is a tankie bar

  That’s true of three or four instances out of dozens if not hundreds.

  Opinions that are center left or center right will routinely get banned on major communities here.

  On those three or four instances, sure.

  On the biggest instance, though, it’s the other way around: if a statement doesn’t align with the nominally center left to centrist (but actually right to far right) norms and positions of the DNC leadership, it’s derided as “purity testing” or “a Republican op” and downvoted to hell if not removed.

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  • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This person catches bans from feddit.org for being too zionist, if you’re far enough right, every instance is a “tankie” instance.

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    • FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks for the headsup.

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• dgdft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The modlog is public. Show us some examples?

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Downvoted maybe, but not banned except for a few extremist instances (which I’ve blocked anyway) or if your expressing said opinions hostily maybe. Also, remember that the problem with Lemmy being so small is it’s often like one guy deciding on bans in a lot of channels.

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• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  A “tankie bar” is a place that runs off all the bigots, imperialists, zionists, etc until the only people who feel safe are a diverse community of marginalized people and their allies.

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  • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Haha, Lemmy might have lots of self styled allies, but the number of marginalized people here is low besides mtf trans folk and the neurodivergent.

    Typically you get western male leftists westsplaining to the few folks from the global south.

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    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You really like the smell of your own farts, huh?

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    • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lol, wtf is “westsplaining?”

      The point is that there’s no such thing as a “tankie bar” because “tankies” aren’t bigots who drive away marginalized people the way Nazis do. We have similar demographics to Reddit since most people come from there. If there’s anyone driving off minorities, it’s the liberals bringing their prejudices and not the “tankies” who created the space.

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      • Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Westsplaining is western leftists dismissing the lived experience of people from elsewhere, when it contradicts their ideological convictions.

        Just a few days ago there was a pile on of several leftists, dismissing the lived experience of a Cuban living in Cuba. Happens all the time.

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “There aren’t many marginalised people if you ignore the ones there are”

      Amazing

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  • DaMummy@hilariouschaos.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So not inclusive, but exclusive?

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