In the past week I’ve been absolutely roasted for criticising two different countries. Normally I’d be okay with that, I can handle a mild toasting and after all debate is a good thing.
On both occasions though I was flamed for mentioning human rights issues that are established facts and have been known for many, many years. I was critical of the actions/laws of their governments and not the people, their race, religion, general political ideology or nationality.
On both occasions I was bombarded by long posts that parroted propaganda, and in the case of one country I was told (on multiple occasions) that I was ignorant, racist and even fascist for mentioning the issues I did. I’m not complaining about how I was treated, but as a reminder, I was discussing internationally-recognised human rights concerns that can be verified and based in fact.
I could just be paranoid but I’m fairly convinced the responses weren’t from patriotic citizens. I think they were paid trolls or bots, and I think their purpose was to quiet negative talking points about the countries that were mentioned.
Has anyone else had a similar experience?
And why should I care about this concern trolling when in all likelihood these paskudnyaks are in complete denial of the problem of Ukrainian neofascism?
This particular dullard made some generic ‘China sucks’ comment, to which @Cowbee@hexbear.net and others replied with information patiently addressing their tired arguments, and wouldn’t you know it, they made a thread anyway about how Lemmy ‘wronged’ them. I think that @jobbies@lemmy.zip is more interested in goofing around or playing the victim than having a meaningful conversation.
Makes sense, it’s a common occurance that these people perceive any callout on being not as educated as they should be to speak definitively on a subject as an utter assault on their person.