Apparently “nationalism is bad” is an uncivil take. Unless there’s another reason someone would ban this comment… 🤔
American nationalism is bad because it’s an empire. That take is allowed.
Chinese nationalism, however, is good because it’s also an empire.
Ah yes good ol Rule 1 “Bigotry” the classic .ml go-to
Whenever you bring up the bans though the more prominent .ml users will proclaim that people mostly get banned for “bigotry” on .ml and there’s definitely no problem with opposing viewpoints.
This is the “bigotry” they speak of
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lol wtf… that comment was not even bad… deff some power trippin going on
the two dudes who lead lemmy development and run both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad both deeply and truly suck at being decent human beings
Nutomic is second in command of lemmy.ml
Is that real?
https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900
Hundreds of people seem to agree it is.
I dated a Chinese student at university. She seemed alright until somehow the topic of Tibet came up, and then she went full tankie describing how the Tibetan people were nearly subhuman, living terrible lives with no ability to care for themselves.
I’ve heard people say similar shit about indigenous Americans and yeah I think it’s safe to say that you cannot understate the dangers of propaganda and nationalism.
I got banned for saying China and the DPRK are oppressive regimes and that Ukraine has a right to exist because I violated “rule 1”. The irony lmao
Ahhh. The vague and often confusingly unexplainable “Rule 1” violation on .ml that all the minions residing there always seem to find a way to pretend doesn’t exist when their beloved shithole of an instance’s strapped down oppressive bias is under attack.
I got mine yesterday too!
I mentioned bending over for dictators and they claimed it’s implied homophobia. Before getting banned, I asked if we’re back to assuming everyone on the Internet is male and got replied “oh look, I’m not a bigot, it’s implied misogyny not implied homophobia”…
The expression isn’t about any specific gender or sexuality, it’s about the power dynamic… It’s about the fact that people will do anything to please their masters.
it’s implied misogyny
Are strap-ons not a thing in their echo chambered world? It sounds like they have no problem with kink shaming.
Yeah it could easily just be female on male too lmao
Don’t tempt me with a good time.
The brainwashed ideologies in Chinese Students
sigh
During the first year of the Korean War, Edward Hunter, an American journalist who had worked in wartime intelligence, and post-war with the CIA, coined (or, more accurately, first popularised) the term brainwashing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hunter_(journalist)#Journalism
In March 1958, Hunter testified before the US House of Representatives’ House Committee on Un-American Activities. He described the US and NATO as losing the Cold War because of the communists’ advantage in propaganda and psychological manipulation. He felt that the West lost the Korean War for being unwilling to use its advantage in atomic weapons
It’s a bit funny to hear people use the term without recognizing it’s tortured and sensationalist history. “We’ve been tricked into not kicking off a nuclear war” isn’t what most people think of when they hear “brainwashing”. But during the height of the Red Scare, that’s what Goldwater conservatives and John Bircher reactionaries were arguing for.
Brainwashed is the appropriate term to describe nationalistic ideology, yes
No no, nationalism is freethinking because [checks notes] an American in the Cold War was a lunatic.
That’s very interesting, and I genuinely do appreciate the history lesson, but what exactly are you trying to communicate? That brainwashing is only possible in North America because that’s the population it was coined for? That the act only constitutes brainwashing if it’s coupled with calls for violence? That brainwashing is a strictly government term and using it colloquially has no meaning? That I should fully detail every term with a unique historical significant etymology?
There’s a lot of weird insinuations and half takes that don’t add up to a complete idea in this post.
