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- Original comment that was deleted with reason of “Tankie apologia”.
- When another user comments has suspicions of mods actions, Mod replies with this.
- Poster replies in exasperation explaining perspective, rationale, and offline experiences. Comment gets deleted and purged.
Explanation
The original comment I made was stating that alienation of someone by frustrating their political beliefs is not a way to convince them of anything.
That being their genuine friend goes a long way in helping someone rather then attacking them.
That together they both can work together for a better future.
That you can be annoyed, but that should be swallowed because that is what it means to be part of a community.
You will always be annoyed one way or another in a community, that is the beauty of a community, that there are different people that may annoy you slightly, but working together to still be a community.
The moderator disagrees with this, viewing it as “tankie apologia”.
When I replied, explaining why I made my post and my background, My post was removed and I was banned from the community.
Thank you @[email protected] for reminding me on this missing context: https://lemmy.ml/comment/17251624
In my reply post, I wrote that “advocating for war on any country is not political flavoring”.
That cannot be swallowed, and one should not befriend such a person without sufficient care for ones own wellbeing.
I had wrote explicitly thinking of people who suport Russia against Ukraine, Israel over Palestine, and Assadists etc.
My purged comment also states that “people seeking to punish / attack LGBTQIA+ people is not political flavoring”.
I whole heartingly believe trans rights are human rights.
Free HRT and gender affirming care for all!
To remove an otherwise popular comment advocating for support what I feel are healthy behaviors, then name call someone as a “authoritarian” and a “tankie apologist” is disingenuous and corrupt to me.
Remedy
Personally I would like my comments restored so at least others see a different way of looking at things. I have no qualms with remaining banned.
Perhaps I should have not commented in reply to the mod, but they had already removed my post and I had little to lose.
Otherwise, I am very tired of this on the internet, I am tired of tribalism and the lack of empathy in this world.
What do you all think, should I have even made my original comment if I already knew it would be fruitless?
In my purged comment, I wrote that “advocating for war on any country is not political flavoring”.
That cannot be swallowed, and one should not befriend such a person without sufficient care for ones own wellbeing.
I had wrote explicitly thinking of people who suport Russia against Ukraine, Israel over Palestine, and Assadists.
I will edit my post to include that context.
I hope that additional context helps explain my perspective better.
Thanks. I will point out however that even without advocating imperialism*, there’s problematic takes. Things like “Stalin did nothing wrong”, which many hardcore campists can make, which can be very alienating.
Ah yes, that brings back memories of the past.
I agree that the statement of “Stalin did nothing wrong” is indeed a very alienating take. I believe it is done as, I forgot the name for it, but something that is done to assure each other they are on an “in group”.
When a person makes that statement, and causes agitation in others, I believe they are doing it primarily to create an out group as so they know who would otherwise oppose them.
It also lets them vent their frustration, wrongly to do so, horizontally instead of vertically, as so they felt like they had a “win”.
But at the same time, a person who makes those statements is in a vary precarious state that can be helped, I was once in a similar environment and made similar mistakes.
That is why I noted that “one should not befriend such a person without sufficient care for ones own wellbeing”.
There are differing matters of my own personal opinions and conflicts of interest that prevent me from writing much more, and I do not feel that I can create such conversation in a healthy manner at this point.
There is a lot more to politics than just war. In the US, we have a burgeoning genocide of trans people. Sorry, but I’m not going to “just be friends” with someone who thinks trans people should not exist.
In the purged comment I also wrote that “people seeking to punish / attack LGBTQIA+ people is not Political Flavoring”.
Trans rights are Human Rights, Free HRT and gender affirming care for all.
Clown take… Considering there is an actual one going on on Gaza.
Words have meanings and this hyperbolic speach is tone deaf and childish.
Yeah hold your horses there.
Genocide exported becomes Genocide imported.
The boomerang is coming back, and I’m a person fascists will put on the chopping block.
USians always doing this shit… Kinda disgusting tbh
Hear hear.
People are so lost in the messaging war arms race that they come unglued from reality and meaning.
Everything is presented in the most extreme possible framing and the outrage dial is always pegged to 11. Anyone not in perfect lockstep is labeled as an enemy and empathy doesn’t exist.
Or, put in a way more palatable to the current state of online discourse:
These chronically online NEETs who are dominating conversations in some social media spaces are genociding my braincells. (/s, because I know someone needs it)