A thread "Please don't use Lemmy :( Human rights, oppression" on Mastodon
A thread "Please don't use Lemmy :( Human rights, oppression" on Mastodon
Content warning: Please don't use Lemmy :( Human rights, oppression
Please don't put any hate comments against the developers of lemmy or against the person who posted this.
I am also unhappy about what the main lemmy instance is doing.
What are your thoughts?
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I've been struggling the whole day about how to respond to this.
My first reaction was disgust, as the thing going on with Uyghurs in China pretty much looks like a genocide, regardless of semantics. "If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it is a duck".
When it comes to discussion about the subject, I however have to agree with @[email protected].
To be clear: Allowing discussions around whether abuses occur is notably different to letting people get away with advocating for abuses. The latter is what needs strong responses. The former is what requires engagement.
No promotion of oppression or bigotry has in this case happened. I'd rather allow people have these discussions as long as they can behave like in a furnished space.
I'm fine with the developers' political views, as the Lemmy software is more important.
Of course Lemmy has now a certain kind of PR problem as this FediTips fella is making big accusations and wanting people to stop using Lemmy altogether.
Let's not fool ourselves, denying Uyghur abuse puts you in the same territory as holocaust deniers.
Would you deny white genocide? You should. The reasoned denial of a supposed genocide is not equivalent to the ideological denial (or fabrication) of the same. Holocaust denial is not the same as scepticism of the genocide which is supposed to be taking place in Xinjiang. To equate any genocide with the Holocaust is an ideological tool used to avoid analysis of the subject.