@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.
Regarding the original comment, I don’t believe it deserves deletion, let alone a lifetime ban. In my opinion, it was written in good faith and is in no way propaganda. As for the Crimethinc article, it’s clearly not “imperialist propaganda” as well, but rather wishful thinking. If you read it carefully, you can easily conclude that there is no third “leftist” option for Iran, since the article fails to do the most important thing – name those “leftist orgs in Iran” that could have a real impact and that “need international solidarity now”. When Iran truly could have taken a different path – in the late 1970s and early 1980s – there were many diverse leftist organizations, ranging from Tudeh to MEK, from Fadaiyan-e-Khalq to Sarbedaran, that waged open war against both the Shah’s and the Ayatollahs’ regimes. Nothing like that exists now, and the Crimethinc article actually confirms this, regardless of the authors’ intentions. So, in modern Iran, there is nothing but a few left-leaning individuals with very limited ability to influence anything, and the choice is only between a brutal theocracy and a Trump-loving shahzadeh.
I agree. It didn’t deserve deletion and a permaban.
I want to add the community where the comment was posted, Manufacturing Consent, is about how the western media creates “popular” agreement about some policies that their bourgeois dictatorship constructs. The post was about the (non)enforcement of the use of hijab by women in Iran and how it was portrait by western content creators in social media. I think that Prunebut comment and the link were unrelated (whataboutism?), but of enough value to not be deleted or, if deleted for whataboutism —in the case that the community is flowed by whataboutism—, not ban or, at most, a short time ban.
Of course, if OP has been trolling on the community or the mods have clear reasons to think that hew was acting in bad faith, it should be a YDI. But I don’t think that it’s the case.