My half-year-old alt AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com got banned a few hours ago. There's been an adminwave over the past hours banning pro-socialist viewpoints, locking posts, etc.
Just wondering: how long will it be until they flip the switch from "tankies are genocide supporters!" to "of course I knew there was nothing going on" as it happened with the WMD accusations against Iraq? How long until the Uyghur "repression" gets treated the way Nayirah's testimony is treated now (i.e. just forgotten from western discourse)?
It's exhausting trying to reason with libs, even bringing evidence such as the re-education camps closing by 2022 by western-media accounts, sharing news segments essentially saying "yeah, the camps are closed, but at what cost?", and getting banned because thought-termination is encouraged when the word "genocide" pops up? Haven't they learnt anything from the actual genocide in Palestine?
The same people who enact and celebrate these bans will cry rivers of tears at the moderation policy in Hexbear with topics such as transphobia, while themselves suppressing anything outside their western-manufactured Overton windows.
This is just a rant, but it's honestly depressing and exhausting trying to argue in good faith (I believe there needs to be an informed socialist presence in broader Lemmy and not just in Hexbear) and receiving either "ruzzian orc" accusations or outright bans. I just want you to have healthcare and to stop murdering brown children, for fuck's sake
I think this will remain the liberal orthodoxy for as long as there is a US, just with greater or lesser emphasis, never a reversal like we got with Iraq. The only way it might go otherwise is if the mainstream gets so openly racist that they think it'd be more damaging to China's image to paint them as pro-Muslim.