• whiwake@lemmy.cafe
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      3 days ago

      I think you are denying the genocide against the Uyghurs by China. If you are not denying it, please correct me by saying very specifically that “China is committing genocide against the Uyghurs.” And then I will apologize. But I don’t think you can do it.

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            3 days ago

            That was wild man, did you think you where on one of the tankie instances?

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              3 days ago

              Sort of. I had them tagged as a China simp based on something they had said before. I don’t know what that was, but I have updated their tag so this confusion will not happen again, now that they have passed that litmus test

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                This is the exact bullshit that keeps genociders and race supremecists in power. “If you don’t pass my personal baseless litmus test, you’re not a real leftist, and are in fact a literal Nazi.”

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                  2 days ago

                  The litmus test is the Tankie test. You are incorrect in your assumptions

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                    Sorry, I can read your response in my inbox but Connect won’t let me see your reply to respond to in the full thread. But no, I’m not a fascist, leftist or otherwise. I’ve met and talked to Uyghur people living through and fighting against the cultural genocide happening in China, I know it’s very real. My point was that you keep making enemies of your political friends on the basis of useless purity tests that ultimately just create more division and enable genociders worldwide. I don’t think this was intentional on your part, I saw your explanation of the user tag and I totally get it. Lemmy is a tiny community, I’ve certainly tagged people negatively and then seen them in other threads saying things I agree with and been suspicious. Ultimately though, I think it’s much more likely that I judged someone too harshly based on one or two comments than that they are some kind of misinformation propaganda bot or whatever, so I usually just ignore them if I don’t have something to contribute to the actual discussion occurring. You just came in and completely changed the subject because you thought you already knew the opinion of the person you were talking to, causing unneeded confusion and adding nothing to the topic at hand. That’s why people think you’re the genocide denier, even though you’re not.

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                    2 days ago

                    What’s a tankie but a leftist fascist? The quote was intentionally hyperbolic, but it wasn’t inaccurate.