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For anyone reading, @[email protected] was only banned from the hexbear.net chat board. They were banned for posting a link to a Kyiv independent article defending fascists in ukrane and got absolutely blown the fuck out by this reply.
I hope this fair and balanced coverage helps you understand what experiences this poster is referring to!
Very cheeky. Don't fool yourself into believing that hexbear hosts fair discussions. I have always held discussions in good faith, in which I respect others and try to understand their perspectives. The hexbear debate style is classic bad faith discussions in which they try to dominate and coerce the other party into conceding. This is not the only time I've been censored on hexbear for presenting views that go against the groupthink.
In my offending comment I wasn't defending fascists, I was pointing out that most Ukrainians are not Nazis.
That commenter only copy/pasted Russian propaganda and a tik-tok edit of Azov Battalion social media clips without context. Only 2.15% of Ukrainians voted for the National Corps Party and after the Russian invasion of Ukraine they have suspended their political activities to focus on armed defense of the country.
That 2021 UN item linked is cherry-picked. Russia has been trying to pass that item every year since 2005. It is a thinly-veiled pretext used by Russia to justify its brutal war and to legitimize their misinformation campaign. Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine this has been even more obvious, look at the most recent votes on this item to see that the whole world disagrees with Russia on this.
Russia is co-opting the despicable ideology of Nazism for politically motivated purposes that seek to excuse new violations and abuses of human rights. In fact, Russia has its own problems with far-right extremists and instead of suppressing them, Russia tacitly supports these groups to suppress dissent and to promote it's own agenda.
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Why France and 51 other countries voted against UN resolution condemning Nazism
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EU Explanation of Vote – UN General Assembly 3rd Committee: Glorification of Nazism
Are you sad that you can't delete my comments this time?
For anyone reading, the post that was removed and got this user banned from the hexbear.net chat community, posted in it’s entirety:
Their post was just a link to the article defending and justifying fascist imagery in ukrane.
The comment was directly in reply to the post do literally all ukranian soldiers wear fascist imagery?.
I personally believe it’s abhorrent to accept and defend the use of Nazi imagery and propaganda, but if a reader feels like it’s more complex and that people who go around whipping out the Bellamy salute are fine and they can be made the useful idiots of liberal democracy…
Whomst am I to point at the whole history of the 20th century and say “bro, just one more fascist coup, bro. This cia operation will be different bro!”?
Yup, I posted a link which directly answered the question in the post title and I looked forward to the explanations for why it is incorrect. Unfortunately I never got to participate in that discussion.
Do you realize that only 0.5% of Ukranian forces are part of the Azov Battalion? But they are the group with the most active social media presence, providing most of the images that hexbears throw around. No one else is endorsing Nazis, they're all fighting to protect their homes and nation.
This Nazi scare tactic is a rather successful political-psychological tactic to justify the war among Russians who view the defeat of the Nazis as the high point in their history which they'd like to re-live.
Look, I can do it too. The Russian government has routinely collaborated with neo-Nazis in order to fight domestic opposition to Vladimir Putin, a policy called Managed Nationalism. The Russian Imperial Movement of neo-Nazi terrorists are allowed to operate and train militias within Russia as long as they don't target Russians internally. The group worked with the Russian government on the annexation of Crimea, the Russo-Ukranian War, and the War in Donbas.
I personally believe it’s abhorrent to accept and defend the use of Nazi imagery and propaganda, therefore we should reject any actions by Russia. See? It goes both ways.