cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63691775
Posted this in Fediverse Memes but got deleted for some reason, can’t imagine why.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63691775
Posted this in Fediverse Memes but got deleted for some reason, can’t imagine why.
I would say that “fuck Bibi’s ethnostate” is not a problem at all. “Fuck apartheid religions” could be a problem if it criticizes Jews as a group and not the ideology of Zionism. The same applies to right-wingers who accuse all Muslims of being terrorists because they are part of a terrorist religion, instead of limiting this to the ideology of Islamism. In general, I would say that it makes a very, very big difference whether one directs one’s criticism at Judaism or Jews, or at Israel and Israelis.
What is repeatedly discussed is whether moderating “Death to Israel” (or similar) and banning corresponding users is an expression of a Zionist ideology on the part of the feddit moderators. To this I would say: even if the author means Israel as a state and is not calling for the death of Israelis, he is aware of and accepts the possibility of the latter interpretation and its ambiguity. To interpret the moderation of this as Zionism is, in my opinion, exaggerated and malicious. It also empties the term “Zionism” of its analytical content.
Why Judaism in particular, when it’s not the only apartheid religion in existence? I don’t want racist religions to exist.
“Death to Israel” means both: the state, and it’s racist religion. Bibi wants the Torah’s theist ethnostate. This is why he is genociding Palestinians. We are not saying “death to jews,” we are saying “death to theist ethnostates, esp. Bibi’s interpretation killing millions of people.”
Zionists are one class above the same ethnostatism. We don’t want eithers.
Yeah if all jews were into aoartheid, fuck the whole religion.
Im pretty sure theyre not. But like if they were. Like, the problem with ‘the protocols of the elders of zion’ is that it is¹ a crock of filthy completely made up fucking lies put together to direct the peasantry’s very real frustrations at what their owners were doing against some poor fucking scapegoats who had not in fact done any of that shit. If it were true, if someone actually did do half that shit² they would totally deserve extermination!
¹until the zionists came along and started LARPing it
²like every authoritarian ruling caste ever. Or a trio of assholes in new york. Now if youll excuse me, im late to drain my blood boy.
You’re doing the thing Æquitas & I are not: associating a cultural identity to an apartheid religion. We are clearly against apartheid religions for blatant reasons. That includes Judaistic apartheism. The few non-racist Judeos are not the whole that want to see Palestinians killed.
Death to Judeo apartheism.
Im literally saying… Fucking nevermind.
Context is important here, in my opinion. It is one thing to claim that Judaism is worse than other religions in this regard (which it is not, as evangelicals or ISIS prove, for example), and quite another to accuse religions in general of a tendency toward apartheid. The problem is not Judaism, but Israel’s political ideology. It would make no difference if the Israelis were Sikh, Shinto, or Zoroastrian. Furthermore, most Jews do not live in Israel, but in the US.
“Death to Israel” is ambiguous. It can be read, for example, as “Death towards Israel” and, of course, as “Death to the Israelis” or, as you mean it, as “Death to the state of Israel.” The fact that you have to explain what exactly is meant illustrates this very clearly. And I think that the slogan is deliberately ambiguous. It is intended to provoke and reliably achieves its goal through this ambiguity. It would be easy to resolve the contradiction by adding “state of.” And if one is really concerned with objectivity and not emotions, one could also omit the word ‘death’ and just say “Dissolve Israel.” No ambiguity but delivers the message you want. Doesn’t sound as impressive and martial tho.
It is simply exaggerated and intellectually lazy to accuse Feddit.org of Zionism, where any criticism of Israel would be suppressed. Recently, there was a discussion on feddit about giving the Israelis a piece of Bavaria and returning Israel to the Palestinians. It was not banned or moderated away.
Yeah, we’re not going to entertain your denial of Judaistic apartheism.
it’s not. We made this pretty clear here, and elsewhere.
It’s the otherway around: the fact you want to ambiguoize a simple phrase by enforcing an unjust law your German state as your justification makes it clear to everyone which stance you police and ban for.
We are blatantly accusing your instance of policing anti apartheid ethnostate press against a current active genocidal state, that just so happens to banner Israel’s name in vain. Israel fought an angel for his name, and now we have to fight you too?
American nationalists have their “God’s own country,” and radical Christians interpret the Bible in exactly the same way as nationalist from Israel interpret the Torah. I don’t think I need to quote you any relevant passages from the Bible. ISIS, Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and the Iranian theocracy do the same thing with Islam. Indian nationalists do the same with Hinduism. The problem here is political ideology, not religion per se. If you think that Jews are evil because of their religious background, then you are indeed crossing the line into antisemitism, and we will not agree. If you criticize Israel’s political ideology, Zionism, that’s completely different and legitimate. But just like religious nationalism in the US, Iran, or India, it has nothing to do with the respective religion. It only serves to legitimize it. To disregard this is either stupidity or malice.
It’s not a good sign for a political slogan if you have to read the fine print to get the right interpretation. You’re also overestimating how many people are actually confronted with something like this. That’s why very few people will have heard about the clarification of this slogan. This in turn leads to provocations, overly emotional debates, misunderstandings, and insults. I can understand why the mods delete such content tbh.
what are you talking about? I am not enforcing shit. I have no power anywhere. I just want to explain why it’s ridiculous to accuse people of Zionism because they have a problem with this phrase. Why do you demand the benefit of the doubt for yourself, but are not willing to grant it to others?
If you think that the only way to speak out against a current active genocidal state is to write “Death to Israel,” then that’s not just pathetic, it’s childish.
I don’t think it helps to keep explaining to you that it is perfectly possible to speak out against the genocide of Israel on feddit.org, that this is even the majority opinion there. This is just one of those shitty left-wing purity contests that exist on other issues as well, which have been weakening the left for decades.
Do you read the fine print for “Deutschland verrecke” or “Death to America” as well, or does that only apply when it comes to Israel?
We’re on Lemmy, which means unless you limit yourself to just the local feddit.org feed (and I know for a fact that the typical zionists on feddit don’t), you get confronted with this on a fairly regular basis. And you wouldn’t need any clarification if you knew how to fucking read. Israel ≠ Israelis, it’s literally that simple.
I can’t. We’re on a federated platform with an international community, which made it clear countless times that “Death to Israel” does not refer to killing all the Israelis/Jews in the world, often even explicitly speaking out against this. Considering that most Feddit users are proficient in English, especially admins/mods and those I’ve seen to misinterpret this slogan, I refuse to believe that they don’t know this by now. And somehow this (along with the absolute clusterfuck of Anti-Germans) is almost an exclusively German issue, because the rest of the international Left understands just fine what this slogan means.
Nobody claims that this is the only way, but considering that the existence of Israel as its own state to this day prevents and more than likely will continue to prevent peaceful coexistence, it’s a justified one. Is it pathetic and childish? Maybe, but much less so than misinterpreting it to fit your narrative.
Tell me: when Islamists in Iran, Afghanistan, or Iraq chant “Death to America,” do they simply mean the dissolution of the United States? Of course not. They mean the death of everything American, including American people. At least, that’s how I’ve always interpreted it. If you think that it’s really just an anarchist critique of US statehood, I would find that remarkable. “Deutschland verrecke”, on the other hand, is a phrase used almost exclusively by Germans. Context matters, as I wrote above.
I don’t. And I’m in a lot of English subs.
Even if that were true, which I doubt, there is still the possibility that some people will not accept your interpretation, but one of the others. The sentence could, for example, come straight from the neo-Nazi scene. And since you don’t know who is behind a post on the internet, ambiguities lead to problems. Especially when one of the interpretations calls for the death of people.
However, Feddit.org is not a left-wing, but rather a general instance like lemmy.world. I am also relatively certain that the sentence would be moderated away on lemmy.world as well.
Yes, your previous poster claims that deleting and prohibiting such posts is “policing anti-apartheid ethnostate press against a current active genocidal state.” This ignores the fact that objective, unambiguous and clear criticism is perfectly acceptable and, in my experience, even represents the majority opinion (which says a lot on a general instance). To conclude from the rejection of “Death to Israel” that Zionism is supported here is not only logically incorrect. It is intellectually lazy, exaggerated, malicious, and, yes, childish.
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You said that the possibility of an interpretation of “Death to X” other than yours would be bad faith. But here you can see that this is not the case. Yes, I know this guy is just a sad edgelord. But because everyone knows that this interpretation above also exists, everyone also knows that it is ambiguous. It’s meant to be. Pointing this out is not bad faith, but simply describes why the sentence is also rejected by many on the left.
No, dumbass. This is just orientalist bullshit, I don’t even know what Iraq is doing here, you just don’t know what you’re talking about.
Khamenei literally said otherwise. It’s a normal saying in iran, they even say it about traffic.
Vibes based analysis, huh? Maybe try reading shit next time, instead of pulling racist bullshit out your ass.
And, yes they have every fucking right to be pissed at Israel and the USA. Why wouldn’t they? The USA overthrew their fucking government in the 1953 for BP oil, and because they dared nationalize their oil industry. Israel is committing a genocide and colonizing Palestine, and have been fucking over/invading their neighbors for decades now. Not that your European ass would know shit, of course.
Calm down and don’t accuse me of things I haven’t said dummy. Of course Israel is committing genocide and of course the USA is a criminal country. Where did I give the impression that this wasn’t the case?
And no, Islamists want people dead, including innocent civilians, as evidenced by their actions. I was just trying to express this in a less confrontational way for small-minded people like you. Even if one considers attacks on innocent civilians in Israel, the USA or Europe to be justified, which is disgusting enough, Islamists also kill innocent people in the Middle East. Be it in Rojava, as was the case a few weeks ago, or anywhere else. How pathetic can you be to side with these people because of your justified rejection of Israel or the USA?
The fact that you call me a racist also shows me that you still cannot distinguish between religion, origin and ideology. So kindly shut the fuck up.
You are the one assuming phrases calling for the death of a nation state are a literal call to genocide everyone inside that nation state. That’s the worst possible bad faith interpretation of that phrasing one could make. Yes it’s one possible meaning, among many others. Yet despite everyone here telling you your interpretation is bad faith and that’s not what we mean by it, here you are insisting your interpretation is the only possible correct one. I don’t know if the German language is just very literal about such things, but that’s simply not how English works. Essentially what you and Feddit.org and Germany itself has done, is to mischaracterise that phrase by redefining it according to your own biases, and then banning the phrase on the basis of your own definition. That’s what is lazy and malicious and childish.
Islamists may be fine with some civilian casualties, but I have no reason to believe that this is their main goal. Even the actual large scale attacks against the US so far (11-9) were directed towards the nation and its economy (WTC, pentagon, capitol) and not some random civilian hotspot. Then again, this wasn’t simply a religiously motivated attack and not every Islamist is the same, some may be more extreme than others, but to me the past events and expressions that I know of have not shown a clear intent to kill all Americans. I don’t think it’s really an anarchist critique, just a critique against the countless atrocities committed by the American governments and a call for systematic change, as in “Tear America down, then rebuild it into something that can’t just meddle in other countries politics and kill our people as it pleases”.
The fact that “Deutschland verrecke” is coming from Germans doesn’t change anything about the situation, because ironically this one is sometimes accompanied by a “Bomber Harris, do it again!”, which actually is a call for killing civilians, coming from Germans themselves. But without the second slogan, I also wouldn’t think that this is a call for killing all Germans, no matter if it’s Germans or anyone else saying it.
Have you blocked some instances or communities? Because I know for a fact that discussions around this are a somewhat regular occurrence, even with the instances feddit.org is federated with, because I was able to see them as well when I was there. It may not discussed as much anymore as it was up to a year ago, but still occasionally flares up, IIRC it also came up again in the db0 thread about the vote for defederating feddit, but I may be wrong here.
Unlikely. Neo-nazis may be against Jews, but they’re generally very pro-Israel. Which is only logical, because ethno-nationalism is kinda their thing, and “better have the Jews over there than here with us”. Just take a look at right-wing and literal Nazi Twitter accounts and take a shot every time you see an Israel flag in their name or bio. You’ll probably pass out drunk in just 5-10 minutes.
It still has an overwhelmingly left-leaning user base but yeah, fair point. And lemmy.world is the pinnacle of liberal garbage, so wouldn’t surprise me. Still, there are a lot of instances that are general-purpose or focused on other non-political topics without misunderstanding this slogan.
They’re not wrong. Of course there are more objective ways to go about this, but that doesn’t change the fact that moderating such posts is useless policing (hint: “policing” doesn’t mean “not allowing one side to post at all”) against a side objecting to genocide and the existence of settler-colonial ethnostates. And if you’re so sure that it’s not a zionist instance, you could try voicing the opinion on Feddit that Israel shouldn’t and doesn’t have the unquestionable right to exist. I’m very curious if this more neutral way of saying it with no ambiguity about the killing of civilians will get removed. If it will be, which I’m almost certain about, it’s a zionist instance. But I’m open to be proven wrong.
And sorry for slightly leaving the discussion at hand here, but with a societal, online and media landscape that has basically no issue with supporting Israel and the IDF or even being in favor of supplying (more) weapons to Israel, which has the known implication of more bloodshed in the real world, happening right now where thousands of innocent civilians, many of them children, are dying every month, we’re seriously making a fuzz about a slogan that simply calls for the dissolution of a state at best, and is ambiguous to the political illiterates at worst? This is insane, and I mean this in the literal way.