Herman&Chomsky provide some good insights, but there are major shortcomings and points where they are outright false. Among others, it is often cited by anti-democratic propagandists. China uses this book, it’s among the very view Western books that are not censored in China, there is even a Chinese translation. They use Chomsky&Herman to criticize democracy and human rights (China’s criticism of capitalism is sort of a pretext).
Tankies and other communities use it as some sort of ultimate truth. This is rubbish.
Chomsky is even conveying pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian viewpoints in the meantime (here is an older article, I am sure you know Chomsky’s hypotheses).
Don’t get me wrong, but sometimes I am wondering how many of those citing the book have really read it.
As someone already wrote in another thread, the moderation in this community seems to follow personal preferences rather than justifyable rules.
Well to be blunt, based on the interactions with you thus far, I don’t think that this comm is what you’re looking for and that you’re not going to be a good fit for what we’re going for here, so I would recommend that you find a different one to participate in.
Edit: since you decided to be cringe instead of amicably taking the suggestion, I’m just going to ban you.
Eh, they just posted (and then immediately reposted after it was removed) a mildly antagonistic comment. Like I said, the user in question seems like they want a comm that serves a different purpose than what we’re going for, then they came back next day in a separate thread to continue derailing/arguing about it instead of just making peace with the fact that the comm isn’t going to be what they want and looking elsewhere. It’s just annoying gray area behavior that’s taking focus away from the actual content. I would heavily encourage users not to do stuff like that. I don’t think that it makes for a good experience to click on an interesting thread expecting discussion/jokes/memes relevant to the topic and all the comments are just that shit instead.
I don’t know what they have posted, but the way this comm is being moderated has been questioned by other people, too. There’s no reason to ban someone for having a different opinion (let alone with your sentence which is offensive). As others have already said, this serves more the individual and subjective worldview than any comprehensible set of rules.
Herman&Chomsky provide some good insights, but there are major shortcomings and points where they are outright false. Among others, it is often cited by anti-democratic propagandists. China uses this book, it’s among the very view Western books that are not censored in China, there is even a Chinese translation. They use Chomsky&Herman to criticize democracy and human rights (China’s criticism of capitalism is sort of a pretext).
Tankies and other communities use it as some sort of ultimate truth. This is rubbish.
Chomsky is even conveying pro-Russian, anti-Ukrainian viewpoints in the meantime (here is an older article, I am sure you know Chomsky’s hypotheses).
Don’t get me wrong, but sometimes I am wondering how many of those citing the book have really read it.
As someone already wrote in another thread, the moderation in this community seems to follow personal preferences rather than justifyable rules.
Well to be blunt, based on the interactions with you thus far, I don’t think that this comm is what you’re looking for and that you’re not going to be a good fit for what we’re going for here, so I would recommend that you find a different one to participate in.
Edit: since you decided to be cringe instead of amicably taking the suggestion, I’m just going to ban you.
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Eh, they just posted (and then immediately reposted after it was removed) a mildly antagonistic comment. Like I said, the user in question seems like they want a comm that serves a different purpose than what we’re going for, then they came back next day in a separate thread to continue derailing/arguing about it instead of just making peace with the fact that the comm isn’t going to be what they want and looking elsewhere. It’s just annoying gray area behavior that’s taking focus away from the actual content. I would heavily encourage users not to do stuff like that. I don’t think that it makes for a good experience to click on an interesting thread expecting discussion/jokes/memes relevant to the topic and all the comments are just that shit instead.
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I don’t know what they have posted, but the way this comm is being moderated has been questioned by other people, too. There’s no reason to ban someone for having a different opinion (let alone with your sentence which is offensive). As others have already said, this serves more the individual and subjective worldview than any comprehensible set of rules.