Our society is not without faults. Our domestic and foreign policies are also often flawed. To correct failings, we need people who point them out, however unpopular that may be. We should be enabling a wide framework of public discourse, not seeking to silence people. To date, we haven’t quite reached the level of hysteria of 1950s McCarthyism, but we are perhaps coming close.
  • kbal@fedia.io
    25·
    8 个月前

    Any talk of communism is a “red” herring when it comes to this topic. Russia isn’t in any way officially, notionally, or superficially communist.

    • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
      18·
      8 个月前

      People still be calling Russia communist even though the Soviet Union famously fell under Boris Yeltsin

      • kbal@fedia.io
        132·
        8 个月前

        … and people calling themselves communist still leaping to its defence, for some inexplicable reason.

          • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
            51·
            8 个月前

            It’s more the idea that a lot of communists have that “anything that challenges American global hegemony = automatically good.”

            • Grimpen@lemmy.ca
              22·
              8 个月前

              Colloquially referred to as “Tankies”. America = Bad, therefore Not America = Good mostly sums up Tankie takes, but more properly Tankies is a pejorative for authoritarian communists, usually apologists for China and the CCP nowadays. IIRC originally it referred to communist parties in Western countries that excused Soviet actions during the Prague Spring and such, although I’d say that is an obsolete term.