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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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Oh you’re that nutcase who consider victim blaming an opinion that should be respected
Context for any other person interested : someone justified the mistreatment of the flotilla activists getting abused by saying the activists knew what would happen to them and that they are only doing a publicity stunt and the mods refused to remove it
Here's the real context.
Op thinks this comment constitutes a literal human rights abuse and that the user should be banned.
They also feel that telling this user to go kill themselves is fine and that the death threat should not have been removed
Have some shame. I said that it is victim blaming the people who got abused by Israel and that Israel did human right abuses.
I never said that kill themselves is fine. either. Show the comment where I explicitly said it
I'm gonna side with the other guy here. You know we can see the modlog right? All I gotta say is wow.
My modlog show that i critsized victim blaming the people who got abused by Israel and called to remove victim blaming
It shows you generally being a dick to people you disagree with. One line even said "scums like you should be iced."
I only insult people defending objectivly undefensible things like victim blaming, not people who simply disagree with me about subjectivd things. People like that are scums and i will not be politically correct about it. The other guy said i should be iced first and i simply repeated his rhetoric
Escalating when someone slights you can certainly have no parallels to current events, no sir.
Prioritizing civility in discussions about a genocide is indefensible
Especially in the high stakes world of Lemmy comment sections.
"It's just the internet" is a pathetic excuse
...a pathetic excuse for not flinging insults at obvious trolls?
The internet is great for activism. You should try, you know, some focused activism.
A pathetic excuse for prioritizing civility over morality, duh