I saw a post that talked about racism towards people and when I talked about it the response I got was very heated and a person even called lemmy.world a community of ‘hitlerites’

I have been around for a week or so and this is my first time seeing such explicit vulgar reaction towards another community, is this a one-off or should I block hexbear?

  • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    838·
    4 days ago

    I love this image. Something that always confused me is that they are communist, but support russia? An extremely far right government?

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
      799·
      4 days ago

      Authoritarians like authoritarian regimes. They’ll perform extreme mental gymnastics to reconcile their preconceived notions with reality, like the tankies that declare China to be socialist. Also, most of them see the US as the Great Satan that is responsible for any and all evil in the world. Therefore anybody who opposes the Great Satan must be good.

      • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
        164·
        3 days ago

        I can’t help but wonder if tankies are the political equivalent of flat-earthers. I should probably ask that on NSQ some time, when I can figure out a way of asking that won’t get me banned.

      • rekabis@programming.dev
        22·
        2 days ago

        most of them see the US as the Great Satan that is responsible for any and all evil in the world.

        That’s throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

        America is largely fine. The problem it has is a violently coercive economic model that forces people to be profitable to other people or risk destitution, homelessness, or even death by exposure, and a political system that is militaristic, imperialistic, and dysfunctional.

        My favourite quote is this:

        America has three political groups, but is serviced by only two political parties - the extreme ChristoFascist right has a party all to themselves, while the moderate right and centrists share a party such that it cannot effectively function.