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Mastodon.social removes anti-genocide post (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by timewarp@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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I've generally felt like progressives were the first community to call out the genocide being committed by Israel. I also had assumed Mastodon.social was more progressive, although I had seen lots of defense of genocide when Biden was the one supporting it. Recently however I encountered a post claiming Palestinian was a newly invented term to describe Arabs in Gaza, and that the word Palestinian itself was antisemitic & represented the eradication of Jews.

I responded that statements like this makes it easier to dehumanize Palestinians, and that there really is no difference between Nazi Germany & Israel at this point. However, the mods at Mastodon.social removed my response claiming it is Holocaust inversion.

There are plenty of Jews that are against the genocide & mass murder Israel is conducting. It is a real shame that Mastodon.social mods believe the genocide being carried out by Israel represents the views of all Jews worldwide, and the mods intend to use the Holocaust to justify it.

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[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think it is important to note that Mastodon.social is the official instance maintained by the same non-profit behind Mastodon. So when the mods on Mastodon.social are removing anti-genocide content, you can pretty much assume it is the position of the official Mastodon project (not that of separate instances though).

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sounds extremely similar to Lemmy.World.

Pretend to take a non-political stance while in reality enforcing the position of the Western hegemony.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So true. I'm still banned in some of the largest "left-wing" communities at this point for merely pointing out instances of Democrats supporting genocide, and this was prior to them losing the election. And then they act surprised that they lost & still blame people like me.