I haven’t been attacked directly, but I am aware that Kittenz has fled to Hexbear and of the anger on the Marxist side of Lemmy. However, I think it would be useless to escalate things any further and make this a bigger conflict.

I can only speak for myself, but if there is one thing both Kittenz and I agree upon, it’s that queers and anarchists should avoid unnecessary conflict with Marxists. Liberals are hella scary right now, and I genuinely believe a red scare is on the horizon in American politics. Right now the fascists are fear mongering about us, but as their power wanes and liberals are favored by oligarchs for their stability, anti-communism is a narrative that can unite them both. This will be especially true if China takes Taiwan and dominates the chip market basically overnight; nationalism is a seductive force.

I don’t believe being a pick-me could make us any safer. If liberals unite with the fascists to hunt tankies, we would only jeopardize our situation by helping them. They’ll target anyone who stands against them as traitors for China, demanding we give up any battle that makes them uncomfortable. We cannot side with such reactionary nonsense.

However, avoiding conflict is not the same as compromising our principles for allies that will throw us under the bus when convenient. Just like with red baiting liberals, welcoming those who demand we ignore oppression and swear loyalty to empires will compromise our ability to advocate for ourselves.

For any MLs who find this comment, these words are only my own; I do not speak for the mod team here. For you @eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com, I personally recommend against fighting with tankies on their home terf. People who earnestly believe we favor America and tolerate chasers will not listen to you, no matter how well you argue. I’m not saying this to help the narrative, but to save you time and stress.

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Why do you feel the need to attack women constantly? Kitten and Alsaas seem to get vitriol from you almost every day.

You also seem to have a nasty habit of misrepresenting situations.

“Today I leave the 196 community and chat, both as a moderator and as a user. It has become overwhelmingly clear that I am no longer welcome here”

I would say that posting and pinning a mod removal announcement post before even talking to the person would make someone feel unwelcome.

“I understand and respect the decision made by the mods here; this will be my final message in this community.”

As many others have noticed in this and Kittenz post there is a disagreement over politics and instead of having a discussion like Kittenz asked, the others closed ranks. Everyone involved seems to have parted on mature terms, but there is someone who they didn’t ask. You, the serial harasser of women.

So yes she did go to the only instance that wants to support a kind, silly, curious, and engaging person instead of ostracizing her.

Yeah if you posted that it wouldn’t have the same effect of a “meme” who’s entire background is how funny it is that the person they’re sending it to will “disappear” and laughing about how you imagine you’ve condemned them to some nebulous terrible fate. Not to mind the massive ignorance required to believe such nonsense not to mind laughing about it. Genuinely bending over backwards to justify a random sinophobic lashout. I understand we are “designated evil (serfs/bugs/brainwashed)™” but it’s genuinely disgusting. I wish I could say it’s surprising but my time on Reddit and on the wider fediverse unfortunately makes that untrue.

Wanna tell me how it’s antisemitic to say genocide is bad?

Another fun strawman. Could you please point out where I said anything like that? All I said was that happy merchant posters weren’t calling out Israel but instead simply anti-Semites which is true. In the same way the original comment I replied to was not calling out China but simply being a racist both through using a meme built on racism and using it to imply some crypto-chinese nature of the comment they were replying to that mentioned China exactly 0 times.