Full disclosure, I live in Africa and don’t have a dog in this fight. I like proper discourse and it’s alright if I and another person disagree on something, what is important is that we communicate and understand where the other is coming from. The ultimate goal is the satiation of needless and avoidable suffering for all minds.
I’ve only been on Lemmy for a few days but across any sub I’ve noticed any criticism of China or the CCP is met with immediate downvotes and anything remotely positive of the US or really any western country whatsoever meets a similar fate.
Anything pro-African is mostly neutral but in essence ignored, no upvotes, no downvotes, no comments.
Has anyone else noticed this? Am I completely off base here? And is there anything else here that seemingly gets downvoted automatically. It would be sad to see the fediverse and Lemmy be nothing more than just another echo chamber on the web.
Finally, I am posting this assuming it will also be downvoted to hell based on the title alone and that itself will be some monochrome of truth of the situation here.
I disagree with the anti-west part. Anti-USA (as government or as an example for ethical governance) then, sure, but with good reasons.
And regarding pro CCP views, it depends on the context actually. You can’t just throw everything on a bubble… The thing is that for a LONG time we have been fed by North American or European media the idea that China = Evil and USA/EU = Good, but nowadays, thanks to the expansion of information and people accessibility to other sources (such as the Fediverse), we know that’s simply not true at all.
When you see, for example, powerful countries allying to Israel genocidal acts, maintaining civilians under siege for almost 20 years, or just turning their back to it as if they can’t see the fucking obvious, you realize these governments are full of shit.
But it’s not that people here are anti-west, or that they don’t like western people as a whole. In fact, I’m sure most of users here are westerns. We just don’t like how big western governments deal with things, and here people can actually talk about it. When you say some of these things on platforms such as Reddit or X, the rigged algorithms will sure punish you.
If you can see the way the entire west rallied behind Israel and then conclude that it’s only the US that’s the problem, you just support genocide.
Speak for yourself. The US was created by Western Europe and it took the torch of empire from them and then continued making their ruling classes ultra rich and ultra safe. The US invaded Vietnam because the Vietnamese were winning against French colonial occupation. The US-based Citibank bought the French debt that was levied on Haiti to pay back the French slave owners. France still controls currency in some African nations, and only recently have they been getting kicked out of Africa and their bloodsucking has been getting disrupted.
The West is a parasite on the world’s people and decolonization will continue until the damage is repaired and every time Western countries provide troops and money and materiel to NATO so they can commit war crimes and mass murders in wars of aggression Africa and West Asia, it’s the West that people hate.