In the brief time I spent on this platform I have witnessed the extent to which it maintains a culture that is hostile to oppressed peoples and coddles colonizers.

I have seen people refer to Chador and Hijab as “wearing trashbags” and the Islamic Republic of Iran is “enslaving women” and nobody else said a word.

I have seen people refer to Islam as “a painkiller” and that communists should “free [Muslims] from irrational immaterial thought” and make accusations that all Muslims engage in FGC . Nobody else said a word.

I was banned from the Palestine community for “being mean” to an israeli colonizer after I told them to expeditiously get out of Palestine. An israeli occupier playing the victim had, according to the mod, “done nothing against [me].” Nobody said a word. I do not understand why in a community about Palestine that there is coddling the feelings of “Good Israelis” who are resistant to the idea of leaving occupied Palestine. This had happened only a few days after ‘israeli’ jets bombed civilian homes in earthquake stricken Syria martyring several Arabs–and the day after a horde of 500+ ‘israelis’ (men, women, and children) descended upon Nablus in an orgy of violence and burned property and lynched at least one Palestinian.

I have had my comments censored and removed when discussing the liberation of Palestine From the River to the Sea and citing the revolutionary leaders from the resistance. The reasoning for censorship repeated the zionist entity language: “advocating terrorism”.

Throughout all of this I see invaders who live in the settler-colonies are defended as “comrades like everyone else”. Even though they are repeating toxic discourse about how such and such liberation movement “shouldn’t alienate the [colonizer] ‘workers’.”

In very few cases does anyone let alone moderators speak up to challenge this chauvinism. Islam in particular is slandered and constantly portrayed as ‘backwards’–albeit it in less direct/overt (and therefore more sinister) ways.

In many ways, my experience on this platform has mapped quite clearly onto my experience on other anglophone social media platforms that censor and punish people for combating liberalism. Lemmy is just more covert about it.

Shall this serve as a warning for cousins and comrades and a testimony of my experience here.

Goodbye