A “tankie bar” is a place that runs off all the bigots, imperialists, zionists, etc until the only people who feel safe are a diverse community of marginalized people and their allies.
The point is that there’s no such thing as a “tankie bar” because “tankies” aren’t bigots who drive away marginalized people the way Nazis do. We have similar demographics to Reddit since most people come from there. If there’s anyone driving off minorities, it’s the liberals bringing their prejudices and not the “tankies” who created the space.
For example, there are some people around here posting anti-immigrant, zionist comments, whining about “woke” and even going so far as to minimize the AfD.
That’s true of three or four instances out of dozens if not hundreds.
Opinions that are center left or center right will routinely get banned on major communities here.
On those three or four instances, sure.
On the biggest instance, though, it’s the other way around: if a statement doesn’t align with the nominally center left to centrist (but actually right to far right) norms and positions of the DNC leadership, it’s derided as “purity testing” or “a Republican op” and downvoted to hell if not removed.
Downvoted maybe, but not banned except for a few extremist instances (which I’ve blocked anyway) or if your expressing said opinions hostily maybe. Also, remember that the problem with Lemmy being so small is it’s often like one guy deciding on bans in a lot of channels.
Lemmy is a tankie bar.
Opinions that are center left or center right will routinely get banned on major communities here.
The modlog is public. Show us some examples?
A “tankie bar” is a place that runs off all the bigots, imperialists, zionists, etc until the only people who feel safe are a diverse community of marginalized people and their allies.
Haha, Lemmy might have lots of self styled allies, but the number of marginalized people here is low besides mtf trans folk and the neurodivergent.
Typically you get western male leftists westsplaining to the few folks from the global south.
You really like the smell of your own farts, huh?
Lol, wtf is “westsplaining?”
The point is that there’s no such thing as a “tankie bar” because “tankies” aren’t bigots who drive away marginalized people the way Nazis do. We have similar demographics to Reddit since most people come from there. If there’s anyone driving off minorities, it’s the liberals bringing their prejudices and not the “tankies” who created the space.
For example, there are some people around here posting anti-immigrant, zionist comments, whining about “woke” and even going so far as to minimize the AfD.
So not inclusive, but exclusive?
That’s true of three or four instances out of dozens if not hundreds.
On those three or four instances, sure.
On the biggest instance, though, it’s the other way around: if a statement doesn’t align with the nominally center left to centrist (but actually right to far right) norms and positions of the DNC leadership, it’s derided as “purity testing” or “a Republican op” and downvoted to hell if not removed.
This person catches bans from feddit.org for posting anti-immigrant shit, if you’re far enough right, every instance is a “tankie” instance.
Thanks for the headsup.
Downvoted maybe, but not banned except for a few extremist instances (which I’ve blocked anyway) or if your expressing said opinions hostily maybe. Also, remember that the problem with Lemmy being so small is it’s often like one guy deciding on bans in a lot of channels.