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”.
Lemmy.ml is a lost cause. Just ignore their communities and find the quivalent ones from other instances. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve gotten banned from there for saying factually correct things.