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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Casual call for genocide.
Fuck off zionazi
"Death to Nazis"
"Wow you really hate gemans huh?"
Average SJW fascist.
That's sh.itjust.works not the other SJW?
SJW is used as an abbreviation for their instance name.
Yeah we got that fun little community of weirdos...
You're one of the few good ones across the entire place. If they tolerate MWoG's Nazis and enable harassment, they're not a good sever.
Ayo. just left SJW -- it was my first lemmy acct created when i didnt know where to go. now im here. i like your username. thats all
Welcome to the coolest instance! 🎉🎉
thanks!
Death to ideology, not the majority race holding the ideology.
slap
Don't even, you know better.
Zionism is an ideology and an overtly genocidal one, if they wanted to they could just drop it at any time
You're lucky you only got a temp ban for this. Golden Rule 8 means Zionism like yours is an instance ban offense.
I have a feeling you'll earn yourself a permaban soon enough.
Should’ve been permanent, their comment history is nothing but zionism
Thing is, that comment isn't Zionism. It was pretty mild and was basically just a call out of the hypocrisy of responding to evil by doing the exact same evil. It's perfectly reasonable moral stance, and you're free to agree or not - but it's poor form and will ruin Lemmy to ban discussion which is only pointing out the evil of genocide regardless of who does it. You can and should call out Isreal's evil. But I don't think we want to become the evil in the same way that some Jews persecuted by Nazis have now become the same evil. And of course context, and history of comments matter - but your knee jerk reaction was seemingly not about context or history, but simply not liking any discussion that doesn't fit your perspective 100%. And that's poor form - the whole point of Lemmy is for discussion, not a bunch of people blindly agreeing with each other. Now I'll probably get banned for saying all this, sigh.
Yeah, equating calls to end Zionism/Israel with genocide/Antisemitism is absolutely Zionism, and banning isn't nearly enough, but it's all you can do to someone online.
Fuck Israel and any genocide enjoyers that defend it.
Land back movements are not, and never have been a call to genocide. This is ancient racist hasbara. Do you think arabs have a "natural disposition" or whatever to kill jews or something?
@Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com I think I speak for all of us when I say this blatant Zionist apologia is getting old, and I think it might be time to enforce golden rule #8 here. I assume reports against comments like these are being dismissed by LW admins.
I reported comments for a person denying the nekba and his comments are still there
How is it possibly Zionist apologia what I posted?
They are blatant Hasbara talking points, which endorse Zionist views.
What you are doing is openly promoting Zionist apologia with your attempt at defending a Zionist. It's not surprising Zionists don't recognize their own Zionism as Zionism when it is being talked about as it actually is, a harmful ideology.
"See the thing is, he didn't say anything about Zionism, he just advocates it, disagrees with anyone who doesn't like it, and then says anytime you want freedom for people it automatically means mass murder because Zionist freedom is mass murder.
But he's not a Zionist, and don't check his history."
I don't tend to check histories. I look at a comment based on the comment. If you want to ban someone for a particular comment that warrants it, I guess that's fine, but it seems wrong to ban someone for a comment that isn't bad, even if you think they mean in some bad way because of other comments
So you don't think if someone has a history of being something, when they make comments defending it isn't suspect?
He is a very well known zionist. Many of his comments war removed for lying about palestinian claiming they do not want peace
Casual genocide defending.