• DefederateLemmyMl@feddit.nl
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    4 months ago

    When they are actively censoring and banning people who make critical comments about the PRC, the USSR, or even present day Russia, I don’t care where they come from.

    I was banned from lemmy.ml myself for saying something about the Tiananmen Square massacre.

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      4 months ago

      or even present day Russia,

      How did this even happened? How can anyone not right-wing ban for opposing Putin’s oligarchs like Usmanov, Roldugin, Rotenberg, Yakunin and Putin himself?

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      4 months ago

      You got banned for a month because you posted an off topic anti-China meme in the thread looking for moderators of the memes sub with the text “Why, so you can censor some more posts critical of China? The modlog of this sub is absolutely ridiculous:”

      The ban expired a month ago so I guess feel free to go back.

      E: after more carefully scrutinizing the images in the modlog, you posted a screenshot of people being banned or having posts removed for posting gore and debunked sinophobic stuff.

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        4 months ago

        Debunked sinophobic stuff like what? In my experience, that category includes anything critical of China, including Tiananmen Square.

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          I think there were two links to the gore page people post and a couple of responses saying you couldn’t even talk about tiannamen square.

          The first is clear what it is, I’d call the second one sinophobic because it’s patently untrue and is basically an anti-china buzzword now. Idk why mods did what they did.

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            4 months ago

            Genuine question, is criticism of the Israeli government, even based on falsehoods or misunderstandings, antisemitism?

            To say that reference to a historical event that the CCP doesn’t believe happened the way the west does is sinophobic is on the same level. At best you’d have people with unjustified animus towards the government of China but not its people. After all, is the claim that the people of China collectively slaughtered those student protesters demanding reasonable changes to a corrupt system or that the government did so?

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              Genuine question, is criticism of the Israeli government, even based on falsehoods or misunderstandings, antisemitism?

              It isn’t inherently but it definitely can be. It’s absolutely possible to criticize Israel’s government in an antisemitic way. In the same way, you can look at anti-Japanese posters from WWII that have racist charicatures and recognize and criticize the racist element, while acknowledging that Imperial Japan was absolutely vile.