Apparently the hammer and sickle specter is too terrifying for the libs at lemm.ee

Adjust your posting accordingly so as to not disturb their delicate sensibilities

Edit: Mod responds!

  • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]
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    11 months ago

    This is great! Haven’t seen Hungary’s before, that’s a fun one.

    The admin was receptive to this point but the policy stands for now.

    Odo(at)lemmee

    Equating Nazi symbolism with Soviet ones just feels like such a weird thing to do, there's a reason Nazi symbols are banned in several (if not a majority) of European countries, but is not the case at all when it comes to soviet symbols. I think it's specially disappointing because the image that was originally shared was a reference to the "spectre" line in the communist manifesto. The hammer and sickle symbol has a long history that supersedes the history of the Soviet Union as a state, even my "third-world country" in Latin America (I'm sure you can see in the logs where I'm posting from) has a history of using the symbol for liberatory causes.

    sunaurus(at)lemmee

    That's a very important point, thanks for the comment. For me, such symbolism immediately associates with people glorifying the soviet union, but I understand that there can be lots of people out there who don't associate it with Russia at all.