In the past week I've been absolutely roasted for criticising two different countries. Normally I'd be okay with that, I can handle a mild toasting and after all debate is a good thing.

On both occasions though I was flamed for mentioning human rights issues that are established facts and have been known for many, many years. I was critical of the actions/laws of their governments and not the people, their race, religion, general political ideology or nationality.

On both occasions I was bombarded by long posts that parroted propaganda, and in the case of one country I was told (on multiple occasions) that I was ignorant, racist and even fascist for mentioning the issues I did. I'm not complaining about how I was treated, but as a reminder, I was discussing internationally-recognised human rights concerns that can be verified and based in fact.

I could just be paranoid but I'm fairly convinced the responses weren't from patriotic citizens. I think they were paid trolls or bots, and I think their purpose was to quiet negative talking points about the countries that were mentioned.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

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[–] ryepunk@hexbear.net 47 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The nerve of some of the posts to claim that the tankies should just go to Reddit to convert people. Like Lemmy was birthed mostly by Reddit banning subreddits that were willing to speak against the grain of western propaganda.

The libs should go back to Reddit themselves if they want to avoid having propaganda disputes questioned anytime they assume they know what an "obvious fact" is. The sheer ghoul brained nature of the op just just nakedly believe that the international group producing "facts" isn't compromised and also contributing to western propaganda.

[–] Cowbee@hexbear.net 2 points 9 hours ago

I do agree that maintaining a presence on Reddit and using that to bring people here and other Lefty spaces is a good thing, but agreed.

[–] agentant@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Especially when they like centralizing their shit into instances like .world, which just then becomes a second reddit

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 1 day ago

It's so much worse than that.