• @PugJesusEnglish
    15•5 months ago

    But that should probably not be a justification for lemmy.world moderators to remove any debatable historical thesis and ban users for that, especially on a community dedicated to the fediverse.

    Jesus fucking Christ, the users in question are outright denying massacres, a matter of historical fact not seriously questioned by mainstream academia, performed by a totalitarian state in WW2 on a civilian population, but it’s okay because the totalitarian state isn’t Nazi Germany? It’s just a ‘debatable historical thesis’?

    This is fucked, and it’s extremely strange that you don’t see that.

    • poVoqEnglish
      6•5 months ago

      The debatable part is that the USSR might have considered it a valid tactic to buy time, which is the main thesis of the specific post quoted above. I think it is a postwar rationalisation and Stalin had no qualms about working with Hitler, but that is also debatable.

      What however isn’t debatable is that community moderators can and should remove comments that are only made to derail discussions.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        1•5 months ago

        The debatable part is that the USSR might have considered it a valid tactic to buy time, which is the main thesis of the specific post quoted above. I think it is a postwar rationalisation and Stalin had no qualms about working with Hitler, but that is also debatable.

        Indeed, thanks for pointing it out.

        What however isn’t debatable is that community moderators can and should remove comments that are only made to derail discussions.

        I read the whole chain of comments, it actually was started by another commenter that mentioned Poland, and then started the whole thing. You can have a look here if you are interested: https://slrpnk.net/post/10244872/9112924