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?
Even in their propaganda, they can't help but reveal their rules perverty-based worldview by calling what they think these people did crimes. Like, you think that the people leading these national liberation movements were net worse than hitler, and the word you use to condemn them are "crimes"?. We're witnessing an actual genocide in real time and words fail to convey the horror, but people of conscience use words like monstrosity, butchery. But to just lazily brand your ostensible worst ideological enemies with "they were outside the law" is like...you don't even fucking care. Don't pretent to give a shit about Mao's ten quadrillion iron furnace casualties when the most emotion you can summon for them is apparently "he broke the rules." Fuck off dorkass, nobody believes in rules anymore, least of all you.
I hate liberals so much
That's obviously not true, we're all ready to admit Stalin made the grievous error of stopping at Berlin.
Lysenko was kinda a L too.
But "crimes"? As if.
I'll take the bold stance that the sparrow eradication campaign was a big miss from Mao.
The sparrows deserved it
I mean, as long as we're talking genuine criticisms, there's a pretty long list. Mao wasn't personally responsible for everything that happened in the Cultural Revolution but it was a huge mess, there may have been some good intentions at its core but the old 70% correct 30% mistakes addage is well known for a reason. I'm probably less critical of Stalin than Mao but Stalin relocated ethnic groups, trusted FDR and Churchill way too much, and did a pretty bad job of figuring out succession (as unexpected as his death was).
Problem with that line is that you'd have to actually do crimes to deny they exist
Stalin robbed a bank which is a crime and pretty dope
Allegedly robbed a bank. I concider Montefiore an authoritative source on Stalin's life in the same manner that I concider Orwell an expert on the history of the Russian Revolution.