@[email protected] banned me from [email protected] (permanently!) and removed my comment from the post, because I dared to note that there are protests in Iran and shared a link to a crimethinc article with voices from within Iran. They call it “imperialist propaganda” if leftist voices from within Iran are distributed.

My comment:

I get it that the western media narrative is incredibly one-sided, focused on ideological bogeymen and focused on getting the monarch back in power. But I’d like to point out that there is in fact quite massive repression going on against the protestors. Leftist orgs in Iran need international solidarity now.

Their “reasoning”:

reason: Ignoring the post to spam imperialist propaganda

I don’t think that person can be reasoned with if they call crimethinc imperialist propaganda, so I’m not getting my hopes up for them lifting the ban.

I also think that they might be a bit butthurt, because I called out their zionistic worldview (i.e.: that judaism equates zionism) a few days ago.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1112·
    3 months ago

    YDI. Iran is being threatened with imperial violence more than ever. Now is not the time to be promoting imperial propaganda. Nobody cares about your “but akshualllyyy”. Save it for the libs who completely support zionism, colonialism, etc. If the imperial “revolution” succeeds, the leftist groups that you supposedly support will be the first to be attacked like anywhere else.

    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netOP
      172·
      3 months ago

      Show me where I “promot[ed] imperial propaganda”. Did you read the article which clearly condemns the imperialist actors?

      Edit: also, the comm actually doesn’t have any rules and the instance rules shouldn’t apply, either, afaik.

      • Riverside@reddthat.com
        1·
        2 months ago

        You promote imperial propaganda by giving voice to opposition one week before a US invasion of a country. The only reason why you happen to care about Iranian protestors is because of the constant western-manufactured atrocity propaganda, which doesn’t need to be fake to serve its purpose of defeatism and of making opposition to armed invasion of Iran less unpalatable among progressives. It’s the same tactic of western media overfocusing on Hamas violence in Palestine during a period of literal genocide by Israel.