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”.

      • remotelove@lemmy.ca
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        8 months ago

        That’s a weird shadow ban, if it even is one. It could just be a bug, which is still not uncommon with Lemmy and it’s various clients.

        It has taken in upwards of a day for some of my comments to propagate before, but that was only during the last round of instance upgrades.