cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/126292

Everyone, there has been a lot of miss information about what is a tankie and the ability for the lemmy community to criticize the Chinese government.

I present to you a simple test to see if the person you are talking to is trust worthy.

Ask anyone to say the following

I lemmy user Denounce the terrible treatment Xi Jing Ping has inflicted upon the Uighur Muslims. Slavery and concentration camps in China are wrong and not ok.

The admins of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml will not say this. Actually they cannot say this because they are probably employed by the Chinese Government and would be put to death if they did.

Thats all and happy posting!

  • UrbenLegend@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    I am not sure asking admins to make political statements is the correct call here. As long as they don’t silence discussion about that then it’s fine.

      • UrbenLegend@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I mean…I wouldn’t be surprised if it was, but not for reasons that you think.

        If I was an admin and someone said that I had to make a particular political statement otherwise I wouldn’t be considered trustworthy and then started making assumptions about who employs me, I’d be a bit peeved as well.

        I think if China’s treatment of the Uyghurs is true, it is despicable, but I just don’t know enough about the topic to make a solid decision on it and I don’t know which sources to trust at this point. Generally, I am pro-Western, but I am fully cognizant of the fact that my country lied about WMDs to start a senseless war in the Middle East and then elected an asshat of a president that’s caused racial and social economic divisions in our populace that now feel impossible to heal. So now both sides are untrustworthy. If I was an admin, I’d be super critical of any post making political statements that dont have solid sources behind them, and let’s face it, a lot of political posts here do not.