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It's a difficult line to walk. On the one hand do you allow blatant propaganda for the sake of discussion? Or is it better to remove toxic content before it festers.
The former sounds best in theory, but in practice the later creates a better environment for discussion in my experience. /r/askhistorians was probably the best community on reddit because it was very clearly moderated for a purpose.
I don't think posts or discussions pushing narratives that are critical of the few democracies of the world, and lacking any criticism of actual dictatorships are made in good faith. Maybe the person truly believes the narrative, but there is no doubt that universally, dictatorships are much worse places to live for freedom of expression/speech.
See right there you are blind to your own propaganda and would like to censor things that are different.
So just another US centric pro-Us Democracy and Warmongering sub. Got it.
Yeah, I think I’ll just move to lemmygrad.
So I can’t criticize the actions of democratic Israel unless I also throw in a criticism of, say, North Korea. Otherwise, it would be clear that I am acting in bad faith.
Well, before I leave, I’ll just point out that North Korea is neither conducting nor funding a genocide, which is not something I can say about Israel or the United States of America.
You can criticize whoever you want. Israel and NK are both not friendly nations to human rights right now at the moment. But that being said you should balance criticism with something constructive as a suggestion.
It's easy to tear the world down, but hundred times harder to build it back up.
So if I say the United States is a racist genocidal state, I should balance it with a constructive suggestion like “The United States should stop being a racist genocidal state”.
Is that what you want?