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What's with all the controversy surrounding lemmy's creators? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/outoftheloop

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I have heard the usual "commie" bullshit and that they deny Uyghur genocide / stalin's crimes etc. I don't have a negative opinion of them, in fact they are one of the most kind and emphatic people on lemmy so I wanted a bit of background. Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've nothing against communists in general or I wouldn't have signed up on lemmy.ml, but now that I take a look it appears that u/dessalines does maintain a "socalism faq" that includes quite a lot more apologising for Stalin than I would've expected and what appears to be some Uyghur genocide denying among many other objectionable things. It looks pretty bad, although I suppose there's some good stuff in there as well.

To be fair, the political views of reddit, twitter, and facebook management are probably just about as far from my own.

[–] TheSpookiestUser 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those factors are what help identify a "tankie", among other things. Communists are cool, but apologia of atrocities is not an inherent tenet of communism, despite what some people on the sketchier parts of Lemmy would have you think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

yeah, that does make sense