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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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There have been no nazi dog whistles. But there has been antisemitism, one of which comes from a user active in this community.
In this screenshot the user deleted their account of one-to-two years after I questioned why their response to antisemitism and holocaust denialism from Hamas was to shout zionist.
I moderate !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works very strictly when it comes to dogwhistles and hate speech.
What about that one user for months kept saying "degenerate roaches" for months on end?
He was banned for a week, with the condition he does not use that term
Now, a personal request, can you stop calling me a nazi? And my community nazis? It's extremely hurtful. I have spent years challenging extremists of all kinds, from nazis to tankies to QAnons to religious fundamentalists. I have been banned from many far-right sites and communities for speaking against them. I helped shut down Ruqqus and /r/uncensorednews, which were crawling with neo-nazis. To then be called a nazi myself is deeply hurtful and untrue
No I don't
How do you shamelessly lie about the meaning of zio. Anti zionism is not antisemitism no matter how much you try to say the opposite
Did you not read the screenshot?
The user was insisting on using specifically "zio" -- I offered them a chance that they didn't know about "zio", gave them a chance to use zionist or any other phrase, but they insisted on using the term coined by David Duke, leader of the KKK.
Zio is simply an abbreviation of Zionist . Just because kkk used the same term wrongly doesn't mean that people saying zio support the KKK. Even the term antisemite was corned by someone who hated jews and conservatives hijacked the term woke so should we also stop using them. What a ridiculous claim you are saying
I'm not the one using the exact same terminology that the KKK uses. I even said you can use zionazi, zionist, or whatever you want, but don't specifically use 'zio'
I recall that this community was upset when a user used the word 'degenerate'. If we can't use degenerate, we most certainly cannot use zio, or exclusive phrases that racists and white supremacists use.
Anti-Semite was coined by Wilhelm Marr a jew hater. Nobody in his right mind would think you should not use it to refer to jew haters . Same goes with zio people use zio as an abbreviation of zionist
Your 'whatabout' argument does not suddenly neutralize any or all dog whistles and make them OK to use.
There is no whatsboutism in my comment. Zio is an abreviation to zionist as simple as that
Your comment boils down to 'what about this other word?'. If you remove that part your comment has zero substance.
It would be whstaboutism if i support the use of zio but not support the use of the term antiemite. It is using the other logic to prove to him that just because some bad and extremist people hijacked the term doesn't mean we can't use it.
Your comment has zero substance
whats with the fragment stuff here?
Edit: incorrect reply level
Some weird stuffs voyager client add sometimes.
Well what did you copypaste to cause that?
How about adressing my arguments?
I don't think it's appropriate to take an argument from months ago into a fresh thread.
It is ok to expose your hypocrisy since you are a mod in the problematic community and refuse to remove the other pro genocide and settler colonialism mod
disengage