Don’t forget lefty memes is for “actual” leftists
I think the problem I have is what an "actual" leftist is defined as for your community.
For full disclosure, here is my 12 Axes
I fluctuate between Anarcho-Communist and Religious Anarchist depending on current events and how my neurodivergent brain that's here in the US interprets these questions. For participating in your community and critiquing overt authoritarian takes, I am called "the liberal" by alsaaas (алсааас) in !queer_defense_front@lemmy.blahaj.zone, a tankie if I chime in on a news story that someone from lemmy.world happens to see, or even a wumao depending on how egregiously someone wants to lump me in with authoritarian communists for wishing to work with my neighbors to dissolve the American empire I was born in and suffer under.
The moderation of that community VERY strongly favors a specific authoritarian communist bent and makes revolutionary anarchists feel distinctly unwelcome anytime they try to say that they have an issue with this.
The specific issue I take here is that '"actual" leftist' collapses left vs right into a binary when the political spectrum as a whole can't be mapped out left and right, north and south, or even up and down. It needs a full 12 or more axes to exist within. Like. I've linked a quiz that is meant to critique the popular political compass model, and even then I find it to be a gross oversimplification of the entire political spectrum. Participating in your community gives no impression that it could be possible for anyone other than an authoritarian communist to not be called "the lib."
And so we're clear, I'm not trying to attack anyone's feelings, I'm just trying to make a critique about the environment that your moderation style has created. You can take this critique or you can not. I won't be participating in your community for the foreseeable future because it's abundantly clear that people like me, anarchists who hate all forms of authority and the state, are not welcome and will never be welcome as long as you and alsaaas (алсааас) maintain your current understanding of what an "actual" leftist is.