Tankies keep posting “NATO-backed Zionists” on the comm. It’s completely delusional because China, Russia, India, etc. all support Zionism as well. I was banned for pointing this out. I knew I was going against tankie narratives so I’m not surprised. It’s still pretty pathetic. Tankies literally value their alt-empire over actual meaningful anti-zionism.
FWIW I’m not especially anti-tankie either. I consider them the same as libs. People who are def better than fash but not necessarily allies.
- Why won’t China confront Israel?
- The Close Relations between Putin and Zionism
- The nationalist ideology that binds India to Israel
- Etc.
Edit: While I’m complaining… It’s worth pointing out that the palestine comm at lemmy.ml is basically spam. There’s people distracting with their NATO/Russia politricks. There’s people reposting slop from X. I mean what is this post? I’m ok with fundraising if it’s actually overt but this is absurd. I should have switched to dbzer0 long ago.
Why though? What’s the benefit of this?
Tankies are mostly wrong about everything but occasionally they make a good point. These ideological bannings are pointless and create harmful echo chambers.
I’m OK with it if you’re creating a highly curated space where only sourced, factual information is permitted but that requires a lot of work and I’ve never seen it done on Lemmy.
You don’t need to be so knowledgeable or do long research to know that Russia is the agressor
Obviously but I guess I’m just saying people are wrong about a lot of things a lot of the time and I think a ban is a really excessive response to that.