The original thread they linked from lemmy.ml is someone complaining that you can get banned from lemmy.ml for orientalism. Good?

The problem is that many of the users complaining about ‘being banned for criticizing China’ can’t understand that it has more to do with their inappropriate socialization than it has to do with saying something unkind about the People’s Rep. of China. For example:

Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Tibet are all Colonies of China, which it treats as Colonial Territories, by - Forcibly destroying the local culture. Forcefully extracting to harm of the locals. Genocide, abuse, kidnapping, rape. But there is no point in engaging to you. You are a liar. You know you are. When you deny genocides, you put yourself on the same side as the fascists and reactionaries of the past.

If I were younger I might have expected sympathy after being banned for spewing a deluge of serious accusations and deliberate antagonizations at somebody, but I know better now.

Admittedly it helps that I’m already a respected user here, but a more appropriate way of approaching the situation would going to https://lemmygrad.ml/c/communism101 and asking, for example, ‘How do you respond to accusations that China has colonized Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Tibet?’ (Notice how I don’t beg the question by saying ‘What do you think about China colonizing…’, and it’s more specific than ‘How do you respond to accusations that China is genociding, abusing, kidnapping, and raping people?’ — which for anticommunists could refer to almost anything.)

We don’t bury our heads in the sand. We do respond to accusations that the PRC and the other people’s republics are incessantly committing atrocities. However, what does tend to get on our nerves are the users who uncritically and unquestioningly share one of the many slanderous rumors already polluting the capitalist media, and then get belligerent or persistent when we don’t immediately accept them as factual. In which case, it’s best not to bother.