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.
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.