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A thread "Please don't use Lemmy :( Human rights, oppression" on Mastodon (mstdn.social)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Let's not fool ourselves, denying Uyghur abuse puts you in the same territory as holocaust deniers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Then the United Nations are holocaust deniers. Fact is that no international court or UN organ has even investigated the alleged genocide. Innocent until proven guilty.

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