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):
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.
The “Boston Massacre” killed like five people, significantly more died in the June Fourth Incident. If you want to call it a “massacre” that’s your prerogative just as it’s mine to call it an “incident”, which I choose to do because there is significant evidence that the Chinese police and military were peaceful and that it was violent protestors who started the violence.
As for Uyghur genocide, no. There is no evidence. Every time I’ve been presented with “evidence” of this so-called event its been a picture of a barbed wire fence around a building, or a satellite image of some buildings in a desert, or it’s that video of the prisoners being moved that was in a totally different province. No genocide has ever occurred without creating thousands or millions of refugees, mass graves, a mass dehumanizing media campaign, etc - we see all of those things in Gaza, and none of them in Xinjiang.
God I wish I was funded by the Chinese government.
Both of y’all are talking a lot about evidence without posting any sources. I don’t have a side in this debate, but I would like to see some of this evidence you guys keep referencing, just to further my own understanding of these historical events.
Edit: grammar.