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- 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 @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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 never said anything remotely like that. What I said is that because Engles is obviously a communist (as established by how the word is used both commonly and in academic circles and so on), and also an “authoritarian,” it proves that communists can be authoritarian. I could’ve used any other figure so long as they’re widely accepted as a communist and were “authoritarian,” Che Guevara if you like, it doesn’t really matter. The only reason I don’t choose somebody nobody’s heard of is because I wouldn’t be able to establish that they are widely regarded as a communist. It has nothing to do with them being any sort of “authority.” Engles is just one of the most ridiculous figures for you to dispute being a communist, so he made a good example.
You yourself are conceding the point that one can be both “authoritarian” and communist when you suggest the term “authcom!” But you can’t actually, you know, say you’re conceding any point under any circumstances even if it’s trivial and even if you agree with it. You have to keep contesting it just because you want to fight with me, so you randomly challenge every single thing I say as a knee-jerk reaction.
This is a completely different discussion that’s not particularly relevant to the point being discussed. The point is that one can be both a communist and an “authoritarian.”
If you want to have an argument about whether the goals of various different types of people identifying as communist are compatible or not, then I guess we can start an entirely new discussion about that. Maybe in another thread sometime, since it’s a different topic?