I posted this meme to the Lemmy Shitpost community. I reckoned that it might generate a bit of debate, and would probably end up locked, but the entire post got deleted, and moreover, I’m now forbidden from sharing political posts to the community. Political posts are not against the rules of the community.
I have reason to believe that the post was deleted not because it was controversial, but because the moderator (Decoy321) disagreed with the political slant of the meme. The reason I find this suspicious is because other controversial posts, such as one about veganism remains up, and Decoy321 seemed to enjoy the fact it was controversial:
If you’re genuinely interested in having a discussion and not a pointless argument, I’d be happy to discuss. Like I said, IMO, it’s better to ask questions than just yelling what you already believe at people and talking to them like they’re inferior or not as smart as you or something, you’ll never get a good response if you approach political discussions like that. Just be curious, if you disagree, instead of saying “NO U R WRONG AND SHIT” you can just say “can you explain a bit more what you mean? in my experience xyz” and you’ll get better results in my experience
Anyways my DMs are open, probably better to chat directly rather than using replies if you want.