You can block the comments but you cannot silence our voices.
It’s troubling “mean arab terrorist” had such experiences here. I would ask if this was on Lemmy or Lemmygrad?
“I have seen people refer to Chador and Hijab as “wearing trashbags””
This is insanely racist. This should not be tolerated.
“the Islamic Republic of Iran is “enslaving women””
We all have liberal tendencies here that we are in the process of purging however this western feminism should have been called out.
“I have seen people refer to Islam as “a painkiller” and that communists should “free [Muslims] from irrational immaterial thought” and make accusations that all Muslims engage in FGC”
I am unfamiliar with the term ‘FGC’, however the opiate of the masses critique is based. This is a long standing Marxist stance on religion. This should be allowed here.
“I was banned from the Palestine community for “being mean” to an israeli colonizer after I told them to expeditiously get out of Palestine.”
Blaming the individual is radlib however in the Israeli case I would tell them to join Palestine instead of trying to paint them as the entire country of Israel.
“I have had my comments censored and removed when discussing the liberation of Palestine From the River to the Sea and citing the revolutionary leaders from the resistance. The reasoning for censorship repeated the zionist entity language: “advocating terrorism”"
Not ok. We are against imperialist powers and projects.
“Throughout all of this I see invaders who live in the settler-colonies are defended as “comrades like everyone else”. Even though they are repeating toxic discourse about how such and such liberation movement “shouldn’t alienate the [colonizer] ‘workers’.””
It seems that this latest topic in it’s turbulent controversy was the last straw for you and I find it regretful that it has gotten this far considering 90% of what you experienced you shouldn’t have.
Take care and I wish you the best.
I have to note the claims made in that post, that I could attest to, were misrepresented.
The trashbag comment is obviously out of line, but it was never reported to us (I checked the log). We can’t see everything and we might be too small a team at this stage for how large Lemmygrad has grown. We see things as a third-party (unless we’re directly involved in a comment thread) and so we rely on reports to not only tell us about rule-breaking content, but also provide necessary context so that we can take the most appropriate action.
We are also thinking of bringing a Muslim comrade to the administration team so that we can get some more representation and good advice in those situations, especially that we now have many Muslim users on lemmygrad.
Secondly, I personally banned this user from the Palestine community (I’m the only mod) so I know everything about it. The ban was temporary, for a couple days, for breaking our “be respectful” rule. I noted in my comment that I did not necessarily disagree that Israeli communists should leave the country if they don’t join Palestinian resistance groups (contradicting the first claim nameless partisan made), but the user was asking a question in good faith and nameless partisan instantly became aggressive and insulting towards them.
Generally, that user likes to provoke and I think it’s pretty clear from the examples in this post. The goodbye post they made was a provocation too, a sort of ultimatum “either change or I’m not coming back, and I’m taking as many people as I can with me”.
I’ve legit had people – and other Muslims too – message me to ask about nameless partisan, concerned about some of the things they say. The last straw might have been when they hinted towards a total genocide of Israelis, but then when asked for an explicit phrasing, backpedalled (despite everything pointing to the contrary up until then). Even their new display name is a provocation. Nobody has ever called them a “mean Arab terrorist”
or any of those individual three words.edit: NP had a comment removed for “advocating terrorism”, which I was not aware of when looking at the timeline originally (not that they helped establish a timeline of actions taken against them, preferring to talk in vague wording. But anyway). There is a difference between calling someone a terrorist and saying their comment advocated for terrorism. The first one is an accusation, it makes them responsible. It’s something they are. The second wording is saying that they may have inadvertently said something of that nature. It doesn’t accuse them or places the responsibility of them. Big difference. So yes, nobody called NP a terrorist.You might notice then that at no point did nameless partisan contact us to discuss how they felt on lemmygrad or want to engage in dialogue. All they wanted was to provoke and get into arguments.
At this point nameless partisan is not banned from lemmygrad, but it was in discussion. They can claim they were compared to a terrorist all they want, but they’ve been told several times to be more respectful towards other users as we are all communists here (until proven to the contrary) and they didn’t.
The reason I’m only saying all of this now is because as an admin, I don’t want to single out individual users on the site and influence opinion. At this stage however, I think it’s clear nameless partisan is not interested in dialogue and resolving conflicts but thrives in creating it. Don’t dish it out if you can’t take it.
It should go without saying that all of the mod team, supports Palestine, and stands against the settler-colonialist terrorist state of israel.
Please report any islamophobic content so we can remove it, and issue bans as necessary. If you see it, say it.
As to nameless partisans claims tho, they were not banned, as you can see from the modlog. This comment of theirs received reports and was removed:
In order to liberate Palestine (consequently Greater Syria and the entire SWANA region), between 10-30% of all the Jewish Israeli occupiers currently in Palestine need to be eliminated. The remainder will all need to be expelled and all their stolen property expropriated by the true owners of the land. Every single occupier in Palestine is a legitimate target, including ‘tourists’. Every one deserves a bullet or a rocket. Including and especially the ‘leftist’ ones.
This kind of rhetoric puts the entire site and everyone who uses it at risk.
As communists, we don’t think individualist terrorism and indiscriminate killing of civilians are effective methods for achieving decolonization.
Yes, the last part would be ultra-leftism and adventurism, more specifically.
