Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide

https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342

Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.

Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed):

https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem:

https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances:

https://lemmy.world/post/16235541

What is a tankie?

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

  • AlexisFR@jlai.lu
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    5 months ago

    That’s not quite correct, they are Marxists Leninists, who are the more Authoritarian and reactionary counterparts.

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      5 months ago

      All Marxist-Leninists are Marxists, not all Marxists are Marxist-Leninists.

      It’s accurate to describe them as Marxists still.

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        5 months ago

        technically accurate sure, but it implies that all marxists are tankies, which is absolutely not true.

        what precisely would be the problem with referring to them by the specific term for what they are?