Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide
https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342
Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.
Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed):
Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem:
https://lemmy.world/post/16211417
And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances:
https://lemmy.world/post/16235541
What is a tankie?
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.
The thing you don’t seem to understand is that this election isn’t a choice between genocide/no genocide, but less genocide/more genocide. Trump is the only other candidate other than Biden that has any chance at all and he is buddies with Netanyahu, too. Trump also has shown how much worse his greed, bloodlust, and racism are compared to Biden and promised to do his best to actively turn the US into a dictatorship and roll back human rights as much as he can. I definitely don’t support Israel or any sort of delisuional, murderous religious rule and by not voting for Biden, it’s more of a guarantee things are going to get worse, not only in Palestine, but here too. It’s a shit choice for sure, but change takes time.
Aggressively calling anyone who doesn’t share your lack of foresight a Zionist is probably why you got banned.