Why do they consider racism, orientalism and lies disputed long ago “valid criticism”. Not even mentioning the lack of humility or a will to learn, just constant snarkiness, smugness and an unrelenting feeling of superiority. Just please, engage with us on equal terms and don’t be dismissive.
Edit: Don’t go into the comments if you value your day…
I never understood why people thought this would be a good thing. Growth for the sake of growth is meaningless. The best way to grow the community is by attracting sane people who are capable of having adult discussions. Focusing on a number of users is misguided. What really matters is sustainability. The only things that actually matter are having enough users to create content, having sustainable development resources, and enough funds for hosting the community.
Having a bunch of radlibs swarm Lemmy doesn’t really add any actual value, and creates no end of problems. Thankfully, we can at least mitigate the damage thanks to federation.
I agree.
Alas the logic of capitalism is like a poisonous fog, seeping into every room.
indeed
Yup, seen that thread. I reported some users calling Russians “orcs” and i was actually chastised in PM by mod who apparently think it is normal exchange of political opinions.
EDIT: And while the dehumanisation, bigotry, racism, orientalism etc. etc. comments still stands, this happens:
The problem is mostly 196.
Also some instances like lemmy.world seem to just approve anybody who’s making a request to join. So all the idiots go there and then spread to other instances.
BuGiJu was doing a great job of contributing constructively from what I remember. Absolute bullshit on the mods’ part. StalinsMoustache was correct but a bit low-effort and antagonistic, so it was to be expected (though I obviously don’t support it).
At least it was only two days for the former, but still bullshit
They are also doubling down:
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/729033
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/728499
Afaik that particular mod begged himself into modding today and immediately start banning ML’s, exactly what ultras always do on reddit.
People like those in the comments are why I worry about my students from the PRC who want to study in the imperial core.
I had a few classmates from the PRC when I was in college. At the time I criticized them and thought they were weird for only keeping to themselves and not wanting to socialize with people outside their group. Now I think I know why they were like that, and i don’t blame them.
I’d be more worried about the savvy propagandists. Idiots in that thread can’t even comprehend the perspectives your students would have from actually living in the PRC, so there will most likely just be a communication breakdown.
Hadn’t thought of it that way. Could you expand on it?
Sure. A little background first, my students are relatively well-off and mostly did not succeed during their time in compulsory education. So, they decided to study outside the PRC, mostly because they had a small chance of making it into the better domestic universities.
Most students, at least at this school, go to either the UK or Australia. Though a few occasionally do go to Canada or the US. Of course, I don’t feel comfortable actively dissuading the students from going (they get enough pressure from parents and other staff at the school), but sometimes I wonder if I should.
Anyway, looking at comments that infantalises an entire group of people just because they were born on a different piece of dirt, not to mention downright genocidal rhetoric, makes me think that students from the PRC isolating themselves from that sort of brain rot is a successful self-preservation technique.
Which, while answering the question of “why do Chinese students seem to only stick together.” It feels like people who would comment in such a provocative way are just minutes from doing actual bodily harm to others.
But maybe I’m over thinking it and these folks have little or no chance of coming into contact with PRC citizens.
It was always going to end with those losers setting up shop. But hey it’s great to see that MLs are making great strides in geopolitics for humanity, and all the bootlickers from reddit can do is troll on lemmy.
They genuinely think flooding lemmy is going to help stop the multipolar world. Think about that for a second - how stupid you have to be and how desperate you have to be to resort to that. So framed in this way, we know that they will go the way of history and that progress marches on, ignoring their tears.
Your comment is a big cope, MLs will never be relevant; parts of the left (even those more radical than you) calls you ‘red fascist’. The tears thing is kind of funny since the whole point of this post is to cry about ‘liberals’ entering your little comfy safe space.
Most ironic nickname ever.
ok cracker
The hundreds of millions of people lifted out of poverty in China probably disagree with you.
Ahh yes, the people lifted out of poverty by loosening the rules regarding private property, allowing western investment, and moving away from planned economy? Or do you consider the period of the great leap forward as lifting people out of poverty because it lifted their spirit out of their bodies?
The liberal’s China: when it succeeds, it’s because capitalism. When it fails, it’s because communism. Truly a genius way of looking at the world.
If we weren’t relevant, you wouldn’t have even posted this.
Seethe and cope
“MLs will never be relevant” is very funny, thanks for the laugh 👍
there are more communists in the state of Kerala, India, than there are anarchists in the world. Your whiteness shows.
even those more radical than you
Who is more radical than MLs? You, who spend your time trolling online? 😂
You make the mistake of thinking that ‘communists’ all are MLs, an easy mistake to make but if you really try to educate yourself on communism and its history you’ll find out it’s not true. It’s funny how you think being a tankie makes you the the most radical of the left, when you will happily support states with mixed economies, oligarchies and theocracies. Only Stalin was happy making deals with nazis, the people before him, not so much.
Hey, do you have any resources that might discuss the ‘flavours’ of communism? I’m looking for good reading material and this sounds like a specific tangent I’d like to be more knowledgeable on.
on the contrary, Lemmygrad is a great place to criticize the CPC if you have actual informed criticism, whereas most instances won’t allow that since genuine criticism requires acknowledging the many positive aspects of China’s leadership
I just joined here a couple days before the Reddit thing happened. They’re bringing all of what I didn’t miss from quitting Reddit years ago. At least on the bright side I can mostly stay out of all that here.
Its a fucking nightmare over there. Left reddit because of this shit sad to see the other instances turning into reddit.
I think it’s very telling that once they run out of talking points, they resort to throwing a tantrum, swearing at you and demanding to be banned like it’s a victory.
Literally saw someone in that Beehaw thread talking about “we’re a safe space for minorities” and shit complaining that they’d posted up a picture of Winnie the Pooh somewhere and got banned for it. They’re literally just western-chauvinist redditors looking for somewhere to piss all over and call theirs.
Yeah I’ve seen that Winnie… Shit was even AI generated 💀
A lot of the xinnie the pooh edits are racial caricature, ironically enough (skin tone)
To my knowledge, they’re ALL racist charicatures
That’s hard to say, since the meme began in China, but the widespread adoption in the US probably was connected to racist appeal
TIL the meme began in China
Unfortunately yeah, undoubtly by some liberal or even likely westerner living there since except yellow Xi it also included Obama as “Tigger” (how subtle):
Yo as per our survey, more than 60% of our users don’t identify as white, cis het males. Additionally we have users from literally over the world. Waiting to see Beehaw’s survey.
Waiting to see Beehaw’s survey.
Honestly that’s fantastic. Data don’t lie…
You know, actually being the minority here is very reasurring
