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  • PugJesus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    4 days ago

    Idk, banning any slight USA “criticism” (if that’s even what that was) feels like unnecessary shrinking the community, but modding is work too & someone has got to do it … then again vibe banning feels like a wrong way forward.

    It wasn’t about “USA criticism”, but the idea that South Korea is an American ‘colony’ is not only bizarre but a common tankie canard - one which you repeated in several comments in that thread.

    Generally I don’t think ppl should be banned solely on pov (without being uncivil or something actually bad). No warning or a chance to reply. Just ban.

    POV is often something actually bad. I’m not here to make the comms I moderate a safe space for campists and fascists or their talking points. If you want to talk bullshit about ‘occupied Korea’, that’s what the tankie triad is for.

    This isn’t a metaphorical Nazi bar, and I’m not about to let it become one no matter how politely it’s phrased.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemy.lol
      2·
      1 day ago

      (Sorry for the late reply, I’m a lemm.ee refuge & I’m still looking for my next home instance, nowdays I mainly use lemmy.zip or thelemmy.club, same username.)

      Oh, I’m def not a tankie, I just see a lot of “USA gloriously won the WWII” oneliners & I might overcorrect sometimes.

      I live in EU, not that far from a USA military base with USA nuclear weapons & have seen USA influences on early school textbooks (eg the food pyramid).

      I often say we are “colonies” too - but with like quotation marks so that it’s obvious from the context that I do not mean that we like pay literal taxes & get our government directly picked by USA (so no, South Korea isn’t a literal colony, just perhaps gets more influenced by USA than their other main trading partners bcs of political relations).
      (Also in EU NATO countries - it’s not like the relationships to USA aren’t fairly one-sided, my country def won’t get a permanent military base on USA soil if it wished that for some reason.)

      I’m not here to make the comms I moderate a safe space for campists and fascists or their talking points.

      Fair enough (& I’m glad if that is your goal), but perhaps consider making at least a broad, generalized list of what that is (the rules section, which I generally actually read, is very short iirc).

      I’m not that educated in such subculture things* & honestly had no idea that would be against the comms rules - ie if “USA colonialism/imperialism”, or whatever a better description of that is, would be mentioned in the rules, then it’s obvious that it’s off the table & just wouldn’t talk about that (I’m compliant to ones house rules in general/in principle).

      Without your reply here I would have never known why I go bananered (I’m not even arguing the ban, but it actually makes a difference in my life just known the reason/understanding the mechanic, so thx for that).

      *I mean that bcs my mind doesn’t organise things by people, eg I rarely/never take sides where all arguments of one side are automatic bs & the other sides arguments are fine.