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.
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I made a post about the Europeans who are being deported from Germany for being anti-genocide. https://lemmy.ml/post/28407953
A user repeated the now many times debunked lie that these victims facing deportation were "violent racist rioters". Blatant German propaganda, made up to smear opposition to the genocide in Palestine. Which Germany supplies 30% of the weapons for.
After calling them, and a few other users out for repeating the same lie, the moderators banned me.
If I've been protesting against keeping someone locked up in an unlit pantry for years and arguing humans should be treated humanly and neither tortured nor killed, and then they break out and start killing civilians regardless if they were part of the oppressors or not, it is only logical I say this is, while understandable, still not the right thing to do.
You're completely glossing over the power imbalance in this hypothetical. You cannot compare violence of the oppressor with violence of the oppressor as if they exist in the same moral plane. You liken Hamas' resistance to systematic oppression, but how can Hamas systematically oppress when they have no weapons, food, water, or power? Pretty easy to say "Akshually, i think both sides need to play by the same rules" when one side has an inordinate power advantage over the other side. You're doing everything in your power to condemn the violence carried out by the oppressed side so that you can ignore the inherent violence of the system that created this genocide.
Nah man, im protesting against Israelis ocupation on the streets, I'm demanding of my government that they stop supplying them weapons and start sanctioning them, I condemn my my government for not carrying out the orders by the international court... I am certainly not ignoring the violence of the oppressive system.
But there are red lines, and murdering civilians is one of them, no matter what others did to you.