So, historical materialism time: certain other banned subreddits with lemmy forks had issues early on rooting out racists and transphobes. There was a lot of pushback from the aggressively white/masc subset community for what they considered overreactions to microaggressions. But when push came to shove, they would often show their whole ass and post the most vitriolic and honestly boomer chud shit to grace the modlogs.

Please keep your minority comrades in mind when posting and moderating your communities. We are service workers, factory workers, and low-level clerks in this together with everyone else, and we would like to believe that socialists care about us too. This is not to say I doubt this community at all, but just wanted to convey lessons from the past.

Trans issues, pronouns, and race issues also make a great litmus tests for weeding out Maupin-type “nationalists” who are mainly self interested.

Hoping to see great things from this community, and nice to meet you all! (っ_)っ

  • @Realistichawkdrawing
    44•2 years ago

    Full agree. There is no class war without our marginalized comrades. Anyone who doesn’t defend trans rights or race rights is no ally to me.

    • @KingSpartan15
      -26•2 years ago

      So China is not an ally? They have traditionalist views on many social issues.

      Dismissing someone who supports the enmies of the American Blood Empire because they are traditionalist seems idealistic.

      This sub literally supports China. We need to have some perspective, although I personally believe we should be outright supportive of trans rights and gender equality. I’m gender fluid and bisexual so please don’t ban me.

      • @TheConquestOfBed@lemmy.mlOP
        45•2 years ago

        Some urban parts of China are slowly moving toward lgbt acceptance (while smaller AES states like Cuba/Vietnam are moving much quicker to support lgbt activists) and the USSR was explicitly anti-racist in stated policy. But countries are much more complicated beasts than individuals and shouldn’t be judged on the same metrics.

      • @PietroDiDonato
        15•2 years ago

        This sub literally supports China.

        I thought we critically supported China.

        • @KingSpartan15
          4•2 years ago

          Realistically speaking “support” from outside of china by us Genzedongers is immaterial, and a non factor. By support I meant ideologically agree with.

        • @KingSpartan15
          -11•2 years ago

          My point is that communist revolution is not fundamentally premised around trans or gender issues globally, that is just the material reality. So even though Caleb Maupin does not take an aggressive stance on these issues, that does not mean he is not a communist.

          • @cuteSiri
            15•2 years ago

            There are no “trans or gender issues”. There is no “issue”. There is only a trend of certain genders and types of people being oppressed by the dominant power structures, and if you have a wrong take on them you are wrong. You are not a good communist. Sure, you can be a communist. But you’re being willfully ignorant. Not something to hold up as a great example.

            • @KingSpartan15
              -7•2 years ago

              I think you are being rather ignorant regarding the time and place. What is the “left” today? The left is AOC, Bernie Sanders, Bowman.

              I’m that regard, none of us are leftists.

              Caleb was speaking to a Russian audience. I find it very arrogant to simply view this clip and say “he’s not a leftist by his own admission”.

              Relative to what is referred to as the “left” today, I would hope to fucking God you’d say you’re not a leftist, because if you did then you’d be a capitalist.

              Again, understand the audience he was speaking to before making such an idealistic, abstract analysis regarding what he said.