Did the people in the GDR vanish when the GDR didn’t exist anymore? No, they didn’t. So fuck off with this BS.

You made that comment with your interpretation, and someone agreed with that sentence on its own. How the fuck does this prove that “Death to X” can be interpreted as killing all people of X?

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.

I don’t. And I’m in a lot of English subs.

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.

The sentence could, for example, come straight from the neo-Nazi scene.

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.

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.

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.

Yes, your previous poster claims that deleting and prohibiting such posts is “policing anti-apartheid ethnostate press against a current active genocidal state.”

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.

It’s not a good sign for a political slogan if you have to read the fine print to get the right interpretation.

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?

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.

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 understand why the mods delete such content tbh.

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.

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.

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.