Full disclosure, I live in Africa and don’t have a dog in this fight. I like proper discourse and it’s alright if I and another person disagree on something, what is important is that we communicate and understand where the other is coming from. The ultimate goal is the satiation of needless and avoidable suffering for all minds.

I’ve only been on Lemmy for a few days but across any sub I’ve noticed any criticism of China or the CCP is met with immediate downvotes and anything remotely positive of the US or really any western country whatsoever meets a similar fate.

Anything pro-African is mostly neutral but in essence ignored, no upvotes, no downvotes, no comments.

Has anyone else noticed this? Am I completely off base here? And is there anything else here that seemingly gets downvoted automatically. It would be sad to see the fediverse and Lemmy be nothing more than just another echo chamber on the web.

Finally, I am posting this assuming it will also be downvoted to hell based on the title alone and that itself will be some monochrome of truth of the situation here.

  • Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
    2·
    1 month ago

    This is the official stance of the EU on the matter:
    https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-position-situation-middle-east/

    The European Council strongly condemns Iran’s indiscriminate military strikes against countries in the region and expresses its solidarity with countries affected.

    The European Council discussed the deteriorating situation in Gaza and the West Bank, including in East Jerusalem, which is of grave concern.

    The word genocide doesn’t appear anywhere in the document.

    • yucandu@lemmy.world
      51·
      1 month ago

      Yeah they’re not going to use the word genocide without a pretty strict set of criteria being met by an international court. They don’t use that word on non-western countries either.

      But it is nice to see they repeatedly condemn Israel’s actions on that page, which you didn’t quote.