Many people on lemmy.ml deeply respect and admire authoritarian governments and organizations.
Iran, China, North Korea, Soviet Union…
The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.
Iran hangs homosexuals. Iran shot 30,000 people in less than than 2 weeks. The Soviet Union had to build a fucking Iron wall to prevent people from escaping. The Soviets lied about the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. China censors the internet. China wants to eliminate Islam. North Korea is a totalitarian hellscape. Watching anime is a crime.
Why is lemmy.ml so fascinated with authoritarians?
But they don’t oppose everything the west represents. Like technology, LGBTQ, “democracy”, common law, federalism, etc. It seems to me they only dislike the aspects they’ve been told to dislike by mainstream media and education, which focuses on things like the Atlantic slave trade (rather than slavery in Africa, the middle east, eastern Europe, pre-Columbian America or literally anywhere else in all of world history) and Nazi Germany (rather than Communist Russia, China, North Korea or Cuba).
That’s because the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was fundamentally one of the most brutal forms of slavery in the history of humanity. The French colonists in Haiti killed about 40k slaves every year, which was 10% of the slave population there. That’s fucking crazy. The French also invented the first gas chamber during the Haitian slave rebellion to mass kill captured rebels by putting them in the hull of ships and burning sulfur to suffocate them. There is nothing really comparable to the systematized atrocities of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and more to the point, NONE of those other histories of slavery actually have present day effects. Meanwhile, in the US, private slavery was outlawed and replaced with prison slavery IMMEDIATELY, with many of the former slaves imprisoned for violating laws specifically written to imprison them, and then leased right back to the plantations they were formerly slaves at. We’re STILL dealing with that carceral system today, no matter how much reform there is, and it produces over $11B in profits from prison slave labor annually.
Holy fucking shit. Imagine comparing Cuba and Nazi Germany. Are you serious right now?