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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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The lemmy.ml admins couldn't handle someone pointing that any conversation about Palestine should be centered around the Palestinian victims undergoing a literal genocide and not on Judaism, because in the present day Jews are just privileged white people who aren't facing any systemic oppression but are even systemically privileged.

An instance pretending to give a voice for the the Global South in the end just censors non-Eurocentric opinions to the point of censoring for genocide.

Apparently they didn't instantly delete the comment after banning me but did so hours afterwards, probably because others agreed with me.


This part of the post pertains a feddit.uk post which I assumed was a crosspost but this was not removed by the lemmy.ml admin and this part can be ignored. Leaving it here for reference

The ~~admins~~ feddit.uk mods also removed a post ~~from my own community~~ because the post cites TheDailyMail and that is not a "reliable source" despite the headline being completely verified including a link to the UK government report itself. Might as well introduce MBFC next.

Here is TheGuardian saying the same thing: Government expected to accept recommendations of review, which found three in five Jewish students had experienced prejudice. And here is an even more extensive debunk of the report found on the "ultra radically left" /s Hasan Piker subreddit

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

hey #1 bad empanada defender caught a 3 day ban and he deserved more.

throwback to him getting banned from hexbear while calling people 'transzionists' for shittalking bad empanada

part of a pattern of behavior at this point. BE uses palestine as a reason to attack all trans people, 'trolling' and people like OP defend it tooth and nail

here's another example + modlog1 + modlog2

it's actually incredibly pathetic to get all your information and positions from one streamer and the fact that you think anyone you're arguing with fucking cares about breadtube speaks volumes about you.

should have been perm banned a while ago.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (7 children)

It looks like everyone blew it. “Zionism is not Judaism” is a valid point because they are completely separate things. “Zionism is racism” is also true and valid. If everyone is in agreement that zionism can get fucked, then disparaging one true thing to focus solely on another is damaging instead of constructive.

[–] Freeposity@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I am reminded of this sign.

Edit: That's funny, I just followed the link to the post and it's about this very sign. Derp.

[–] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] Cellery@quokk.au 7 points 1 week ago

Could just be a shopped blank sign.

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[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 32 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The admins also removed a post from my own community because the post cites TheDailyMail and that is not a “reliable source” despite the headline being completely verified including a link to the UK government report itself. Might as well introduce MBFC next.

No they didn't, I removed that post from !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk. You also didn't link to a report, you linked to a post by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research that neither corroborated the Daily Mail headline and isn't a UK government body, it's a think tank based in London. The closest that post says to the headline is "One in four parents reported their children experienced antisemitism when attending school".

And not believing the Daily Mail to be a reliable source isn't introducing MBFC, it's common sense. Though given how much of your news you clearly get from Twitter, I can see why this is hard for you to grasp.

And here is an even more extensive debunk of the report found on the “ultra radically left” /s Hasan Piker subreddit

A screenshot of Reddit post that itself is a screenshot of a Twitter post. It is right (grab the spreadsheet from here), but you should really try for better sources.

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[–] remon@ani.social 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Oh nice, tankie infighting! 🍿

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

It even keeps going in the comments!

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

YDI. OP regularly posts sketchy article about "jews", conflates judaism with zionism, etc. It's a pattern.

Otherwise I like OP's posts so the bad jewish stuff sticks out.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 week ago

The removed comment was also very bad apart from the "zionism is racism", which also felt thrown in at the end precisely to be able to make the claim that was the only reason for removal.

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Damn, only three days. I was hoping they got rid of you for good.

I will repeat the phrase that caused you to label me a "genocidal Zionist liberal" and block me, so that you can block me on this account too.

"I completely condemn the genocidal, apartheid state of Israel. I don't have a problem with Jews existing."

You're just here to pick fights with everyone, while pretending like you care at all about Palestinians to try to give yourself a blank check for your shitty behavior. If only you read actual theory instead of watching some dumbass youtuber's controversy bait.

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe stop repeating anti simetic tropes. Its not just ugly it makes you look dumb and by association make the entire instance look dumb and racist.

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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, Zionism is the advocacy of an ethnostate, so yes obviously it’s racism? It’s asserting (a very particular flavor of) Jewish supremacy, specifically with the intent of eliminating Palestinians.

The comment itself might be seen as splitting hairs but to ban over that is silly. This is ML though, and getting into the weeds over words turns into a massive spiral in leftist spaces as it is. Even more so in small comms (Lemmy is small), so it’s not surprising that the mod went so overboard. PTB

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

He wasn't banned for saying Zionism is racism, the mods on .ml agree with that part completely.

It was the part where he was strongly critical of distinguishing Zionism from Judaism, going so far to call that "Hasbara slop," when the reality is that Zionists are constantly trying to equate the two. He hates it when people distinguish the two because he wants to use the genocide of Gaza as an excuse to be an edgelord and adopt antisemitic positions.

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[–] degen@midwest.social 13 points 1 week ago

Huh, I've seen "Zionism is good" + antisemitism and "Zionism is bad" + antisemitism, but never "Zionism is racism" + antisemitism before

[–] UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 week ago (19 children)

You're better off just blocking the lemmy triad. Your mental health will thank you.

[–] blartcap_@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Do you know who this OP is? They were one of the biggest names out of .ml and personified every boogeyman people have about them: constantly argumentative, never responded to what anyone else actually said, forced their ideology down everyone's throats, constantly misrepresented situations and articles to their own ends. They will argue anything extreme just to goad people like at one point they supported rape as a viable and justified act at one point provided it's against the right people.

They go banned from their favourite instance and are mad about it. I mean, c'mon, are we really going to gloss over where they want the Daily Mail taken as a valid and reliable source just because the article has a link to something else, as if it's not possible to editorialize information and the Daily Mail doesn't have a long and proven track record of doing just that?

Even below, they aren't posting that Daily Mail article they posted and got banned over, or tried to justify in the OP. It's another, more agreeable, article entirely.

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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

OP is very politically aligned with the "triad". Speaking of which though i still think y'all should have called it the tankie troika, i mean its so obvious.

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[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh the irony. I truly believe you have them all blocked. Because this is not their main account. Their main account was @geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml . But this is a good lesson on the problems of the state. It will persecute you for random capricious and vindictive reasons whether or not you are right or wrong. Especially the more micromanaged and centralized it is run. It becomes the leadership classes personal fiefdom.

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It will persecute you for random capricious and vindictive reasons whether or not you are right or wrong.

Calling a three day ban "persecution" is beyond parody (not to mention comparing an instance to a state), and it's not for "random capricious and vindictive reasons" it's because the user is an edgelord who edged too close to antisemitism.

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What’s the three? I’ve blocked some furry ones and .ml.

[–] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

It's ml, Hexbear, and... honestly I have no clue anymore. Whatever one is the enemy of the week for saying things like "it's bad to murder children" and "maybe we shouldn't trust the CIA." Those are considered wildly extremist viewpoints across the rest of lemmy so folks consider us Big Evil or something. Idk I don't really think much about it despite how much the rest of the fediverse apparently thinks about us

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 14 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Hexbear and lemmygrad are the other two, but I hardly hear about them anymore which makes me wonder if they've just been almost universally defederated to irrelevance.

.ml gets more of a pass being the home base of the Lemmy devs

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[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

there was a weekend where db0 and anarchist nexus were part of the pentad because "tankie" doesn't actually mean anything

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ydi

It's a known rule, you broke it, and it's only a 3 day ban. For a temp ban to be PTB, it has to be egregious, and this wasn't.

It wound likely help you in the future to be certain of community rules before engaging on hot button topics, no matter what stance you're espousing.

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