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I just realised, I can't post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there's a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

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[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hah I'm in that screenshot. I just caught my second ban for suggesting that mass deportation of children might qualify as genocide.

It's infuriating, because if you talk to actual survivors of genocide, they use words like "vigilance" and "never again." Meanwhile, tankies literally just want to gatekeep the word to protect their ability to simp for tyrants.

[–] hypelightfly@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mass deportation of children is literally (one of) the dictionary definitions of genocide.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not if done by Communists. According to tankies.

[–] hypelightfly@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Not if done by anti-west authoritarian dictatorships. Russia isn't communist.

[–] figaro@lemdro.id -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Power to you. I feel like whenever I say anything trying to inject some form of "genocide is bad" into one of their conversations, I get about 20 comments telling me I'm a shitty person for saying that. Or like, a copy and pasted book that they want me to read and then I'll understand why genocide is "justified."

It's fucked.

So yeah, thanks for your effort, you aren't alone 😅

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They don't seem to understand that genocide, as a term, does not exclusively mean a violent purge nor Holocaust. The erasure of a group of people can happen with minimal violence too.

It's hardly surprising though, considering the USSR regularly practiced genocide with "Russification". This wasn't so much the violent kind, but more trying to erase a people's culture and make them assimilate into Russia's.

To tankies, that's not genocide, even though it is erasing a culture to impose your own.