Someone commented that sanctions wouldn’t work on China because sanctions were too harsh, and that the US should treat China as a parent does a child, educating them and encouraging them toward US goals so that sanctions were unnecessary.
I pointed out that China and the US do not remotely have a paternal relationship and a culturally American call to China would not elicit a culturally American response from China because of how different the cultures are.
Got banned for “Orientalism”.
I’m not complaining, and I couldn’t care less if those mods saw this post.
I’m literally asking if anybody else has been banned for *orientalism".
Yes, that happens. If you google
"lemmy" banned for "orientalism"you will find other cases like yours.