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Grindr Won’t Let Users Say 'No Zionists' (www.404media.co)
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[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

To be fair, referring to someone as Zionist has long been a dog whistle to certain hateful groups. When used precisely it does not include most Jewish folks but it was commonly not used precisely. Chances have elevated in recent events that someone is accurately using the word, but even then seeing their long used lingo echoed now using the correct meaning has seemingly vindicated their long held belief.

[-] brot@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah - people who are saying "no zionists" want to say "no jews".

[-] XannyDevito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

It says in the article that you can still say "no Jews" and the only phrase that they found was banned was "no Zionists"

[-] dandelion 2 points 5 days ago

that was so hard to believe I checked the article myself, and here's the quote:

Several users received an error message that says “The following are not allowed: no zionist, no zionists,” when they tried to add the phrases to their bios on Thursday. I tested this myself on a new Grindr account, and received the same error message. I was able to add “Zionist” to my profile (without “no”), however, and could also add any phrase I could think of: “no Arabs,” “no Blacks,” “no Palestinians,” “no Muslims,” “no Christians,” “no Jews,” “no trans,” “no Republicans,” “no Democrats,” and so on. “No Zionist[s]” was the only phrase that was blocked in my testing.

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