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?
Yes, I’ve definitely noticed a spike in people lately rushing to glaze the rich and/or the US when they’re rightfully criticized.
I truly cannot think of a single time I’ve seen someone glazing the US on Lemmy lmao
I’m sure it’s happened somewhere sometime but a rush? I don’t think so.
if by ‘glaze over’ they mean ‘don’t condemn unconditionally as a hellscape and source of all evil in the world’, there are plenty of posters like that. myself included.
The hilarious thing was because of what I’d said, more than one response accused me of being a maga-supporting american moron. I’ve never even been to US 😅
That’s when they run out of arguments.
I got a lot of “libtard”, I still don’t really know what it’s supposed to be, usa-democrat in a perogative way maybe? I’m a euro btw and have neither been to the usa lol.