@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml banned me from !ManufacturingConsent@lemmy.ml (permanently!) and removed my comment from the post, because I dared to note that there are protests in Iran and shared a link to a crimethinc article with voices from within Iran. They call it “imperialist propaganda” if leftist voices from within Iran are distributed.

My comment:

I get it that the western media narrative is incredibly one-sided, focused on ideological bogeymen and focused on getting the monarch back in power. But I’d like to point out that there is in fact quite massive repression going on against the protestors. Leftist orgs in Iran need international solidarity now.

Their “reasoning”:

reason: Ignoring the post to spam imperialist propaganda

I don’t think that person can be reasoned with if they call crimethinc imperialist propaganda, so I’m not getting my hopes up for them lifting the ban.

I also think that they might be a bit butthurt, because I called out their zionistic worldview (i.e.: that judaism equates zionism) a few days ago.

    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netOP
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      4 months ago

      You linked a wikipedia article, did you write it yourself?

      You said that now is the first time I’d be interested in iranian protests. The article describes a time when I showed solidarity for iranian protest movements before.

      Maybe because the US+EU imposed a sanction regime on Iran that has destroyed the national currency’s exchange value and massively impoverished the vast majority of the population?

      Yes. The article mentions (and condemns) this, as well. Read the fucking article, you troll.

                • Prunebutt@slrpnk.netOP
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                  4 months ago

                  You’ve inserted yourself into a discussion that’s 2.5 weeks old to tell meh that I’m “spreading imperialist propaganda” when I was complaining about an unjust and arbitrary ban for sharing an article with a leftist analysis about the protests in Iran, which you refuse to read.

                  Then, you’re needlessly contrarian, making bold claims that I’ve never before supported Iranian protests and implicitly demanding useless proof.

                  Read the fucking article, before you make claims about it, you fucking campist troll.