Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide

https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342

Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.

Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed):

https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem:

https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances:

https://lemmy.world/post/16235541

What is a tankie?

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

  • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
    105·
    21 days ago

    My problem with this ideology is while there are plenty of tankies on Lemmy, the term gets overapplied.

    Some people think anyone to the left of Bill Kristol is a tankie.

    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      52·
      21 days ago

      Thanks for pointing this out. To some people, advocates for things like socialized healthcare are ‘tankies’. Its hard to tell what people mean anymore by it, and one persons tankie might be another’s centrist at this point.

    • prototype_g2@lemmy.ml
      21·
      20 days ago

      Yeah… The label of “tankie” seems to be used to describe “anyone to the left of me”.

      It’s so widely applied to the point of reaching meaninglessness.