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Actions
- Removed posters comments
- Banned posters from community
Mod log
- 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?
I made this point clear ages ago. You chose to ignore it and continue this ridiculous argument. It takes deliberate obtusity to claim the the op’s point is that there’s only one definition of communism or any word. This discussion is such a waste of time I can’t believe how many words you’ve written on it.
But then you kept contesting it, because like I said, you just wanna fight me. Every word you said about how I was supposedly making an “appeal to authority” was arguing against my case that a person can be “authoritarian” and communist, there was no reason for you to say any of that if you were willing to concede the overall point. You were just arguing for the sake of it.
“You can’t support hierarchical dictatorships that take away the rights of workers and call yourself a communist”
Yes, clearly one would have to be “deliberately obtuse” to read that as her saying you can’t call yourself a communist if you’re an “authoritarian.” I don’t know how I possibly interpreted “you can’t call yourself a communist” as… “you can’t call yourself a communist.”
Takes two to tango, buddy.