I can't commit to a new site when I hear all these horror stories about anarchist chapo admins mocking, silencing and banning communists. I need to know that this will be a left unity project and that sectarianism won't be tolerated. That I won't be attacked for defending China / NK. That I won't be called a "tankie" for explaining that gulags were a progressive form of justice. That liberals spreading imperialist propaganda about the Uighurs or Honk Kong reactionaries will be shut down immediately and not given room to breathe. The MLs in the chapo community need the admins and mods to make us these promises so we can trust this site and devote our time to posting here.
This is a leftist unity forum, and therefore all leftists, whatever their persuasion, will be heard and tolerated. This is not an exclusionary space against tankies or anarchists or Marxist-Leninists or whoever, and it never will be. So long as you are not spreading imperial propaganda*, then you will be heard. That includes recognising that there are legitimate concerns from leftists against China that is not just CIA propaganda, and allowing those people to speak. We won't shout down legitimate criticism, and we won't allow it to be shouted down. At the same time, we will also not allow praise of China to be shouted down, and we will allow those people to speak too. This is a forum for all, and that is a promise all mods will keep.
*this is something we need to definethe very fact that you referred to us as tankies first shows ur bias, tent communities always end up being exclusionary towards MLs. anarchists love to throw around terms like "jacketing" when the prop that they bought into is called out. good luck with the community .
the dude is a fucking ML you absolute ding dong
this tbh
that doesn't make my concerns any less valid?
self-identifying tankies being biased against tankies to own the tankies
no one self identifies as a tankie unless there are anarchists trying to pose it as a derogatory
I think the term "tankie" is pretty cringe, but many people do, in fact, self-identify by it. I see it all the time, especially in the chapo-sphere.
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Yeah you were one of the people I specifically had in mind who uses it to self identify :)
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No true Scotsman has sugar on his porridge!
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