I was just perusing the modlog when I noticed something interesting. Apparently posting news about Gaza/Palestine is not allowed on !worldnews@sh.itjust.works. I decided to check the side bar and didn’t see anything. The only pinned post also does not indicate that this is not allowed

edit: the mod in question is @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone . sorry for not originally tagging. i hadn’t realized it was a rule that this must be done. i thought it seemed inappropriate since i was trying to initiate a conversation about a community’s rules and culture rather than start drama about an individual

  • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    I don’t know why I’m responding because I feel you act in extremely bad faith. MoG is a terrible comm, and I think that is why you are seeing transphobia upvoted. I think people see “China bad lol” and are frothing at the mouth upvoting it before even considering wtf he said after it. To say that’s the ENTIRE INSTANCE is so extremely bad faith, or maybe you truly believe that because you haven’t seen any of the normal people on the instance.

    Also bad faith to say “tankie” = communist/socialist. That wiki page is also bad faith, unless I have just somehow managed to see it used differently 100/100 times I’ve seen it used as a perjorative. Tankie implies defending Russia and China/ Soviet Union heavily, NOT just being a communist/socialist. Even the Wikipedia page says this… You can disagree but actually ask people if that’s what they mean. If someone says the wikipedia definition and you interpret it as something else without clarifying, you are very likely misinterpreting them. Very bad faith to say “it’s just being communist/socialist bro they just hate good ideologies bro” like cmon be an adult. “Tankie” does not just mean communist. Disgraceful misinforming people just to try and win an argument.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      12·
      1 day ago

      To clarify, I stated that the instance is a Nazi bar, as in there are some massive zionists, fascists, etc. allowed to roam freely, but that this doesn’t describe the entire instance:

      The instance is a Nazi bar, the two biggest comms are circlejerks for anti-communism and pro-western imperialism. There are some good users on occasion, but the instance itself is very reactionary.

      Secondly, the word “tankie” in its social use is as an anti-communist pejorative. It’s a strawman with ready-made characteristics built up by anti-communists to avoid actually having to address the arguments of communists. The wikipedia page isn’t maintained by a communist, it’s maintained primarily by liberals, they aren’t looking at it from the communist perspective.

      Neither link I sourced was bad-faith, either, unless you mean the communist perspective on a pejorative for communists is inherently bad-faith. It doesn’t matter what an individual specifically means by using “tankie,” in its social practice it just means “communist, but I don’t like it.”