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Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists'
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Yeah that's fucked. If you are going to let people say "No Christians" or "No Muslims" then "No Zionists" ought to be allowed.
Zionism isn't even an actual religious belief. It is a political one. A desire for a specific outcome and policies to support it
My autistic ass is going to be nitpicky as well. Zionism deals directly with people who identify with a religion and where they ought to live. I mean it also vaguely alludes to aspects of jewish ethnicity's since zionism likely also is concerned with athiest but ethnically jewish people unless I am mistaken. There is a lot wrapped up in it.
Also religions have specific outcomes they desire as well.
Regardless, my point people should be allowed to be anti-zionist on Grindr if they can be anti-other-vaguely-equivalent-things.
Just to confirm for you (from an atheist jew) yes zionism is also concerned with atheist jews. Also, yeah people should absolutely be allowed to say no zionists, I certainly wouldn't want to date someone who doesn't care about Palestinians.
TBH, I don't know why a zionist would want to date someone who'd even put "no zionists" in their profile in the first place if anything this is just encouraging everyone to waste their time.
That's not the reason for it. They want to ensure it isn't normalized. If you start seeing a lot of people openly saying they're anti-zionist, people who seem reasonable and generally agree with you, then you may consider that the propoganda you've been fed saying it's wrong inst accurate.
So it should be even less protected
Every single religion has extremists. Make a religion, you just made reliigious extremists. Support a religion, you support the same religion as religious extremists are supporting.
Religions support politics, and politicians, . They have to do that to achieve theocracy.
Every single religion tries to pull this bullshit. christians? Yep. muslims? Yep. jewish? Yep. hindu? Yep. It never ends. Keep religion very far away from everything, always. It ruins everything it touches.
zionism is not a religion though. it is a terrorist organization. can grindr allow you to say “no nazis”?
that's anisemitism please ban and arrest
I mean "No Jews" is allowed so its not even that they're worried about antisemitism.
No, no, antisemitism isn't about hating jews its about hating zionist. The military industrial complex tells me so. /sarcasm/
Though thats how alot of people treat it...
Just fyi, the slash in /s or /sarcasm isn't some weird bracket, it's meant as an XML style closing tag, meaning "end of sarcasm". In full it would look as follows:
But people drop the opening tag and the <> for convenience.
No, the / has nothing to do with xml. It's a fake IRC command.
They were all in the style of /commandname.
You know, people tend to use sarcasm more in chats than in XML documents.
I'm aware of slash commands. If it's a /sarcasm command, why would it be at the end of the statement?
What's your source for this? I'm pretty sure "/s" means "end of sarcasm", borrowed from XML/HTML.
Speak for yourself
I don't remember ever seeing
/son IRC.It's always meant
</sarcasm>to me.not all Jews are zionists
Antisemitism is everything I don't like.
I get no Jews as in people of Jewish faith but no Jews as in the ethnicity would get iffy fast. No blacks or no whites or no mulattoes or whatever can be a bit oof even though everyone has their preference
More importantly, what's a Zionist doing on Grindr? Nethaniadolf doesn't seem the type to be very rainbow friendly.
Well, not every zionist likes Netanyaho. In fact I think even among them the majority dislike him because basically most of almost every group dislikes Netanyaho ATM. Hes only still in power because of political leverage, fear, etc. Sort of a "Hes a evil psychopath but what if we get instability in this turbulent war time by removing him?"
Also I've 100% encountered zionist LGBT people on dating apps. They've been either Jewish or Centrist Libs.
Or because of "poor relations" between Islam and LGBT... Which is mostly just any religion and LGBT. Seeing zionism as a lesser evil to Islamic fundamentalism that they associate with Palestinian Nationalism.
There are quite a few magats and conservatives on there.
Ah yes, the good old hypocrisy.