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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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All from in this thread in !world@lemmy.world about a chant at a British music festival where an artist said "death, death to the IDF".

After other users were quoting that chant in the comments and had comments removed and banned, the hero of our story, @theacharnian@lemmy.ca (appearing as "acargitz") pointed out that under international law, fighting an occupying force is legitimate. But apparently not under world news rules, as their removed comments and the many explanations from mods make clear in the thread.

Equally against the rules is the call for the eradication of an organisation or business, even without an explicit call to violence against individual members of the business.

In the same thread: user @DeathToTheIDF@lemmings.world had comments removed for being anti-American "(again)", though I couldn't see the first time. It's not even clear to me how the removed comments were anti-American.

Bonus points for the "DC Comics" removal reason. Though this seems to be incompetence, rather than malice.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago
[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if [[ instance == "lemmy.world" ]] && [[ topic == "Palestine" ]]; then echo "PTB"; fi

Serious now, PTB.

Since the existence of the state of Israel causes violence in the Levant, anyone defending the "survival" of that ethnostate is promoting violence. And yet you don't see LW mods removing comments defending it - why?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (34 children)

Oh geez, it gets even worse.

According to the mod @jordanlund@lemmy.world, even just advocating an end to genocide is worthy of a ban. Like, when you're really specific and say you're talking about ending institutions that are doing genocide rather than people, that gets you a ban.

And so is calling out a person who is advocating for genocide by their choice to silence anti-genocide views. (Officially, my ban was for being mean, but let's be honest, the real reason is that they felt called out over their support for genocide.)

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Seems to be. It's certainly where I'd prefer to post, although it's not clear to me what its intent is. What makes "world" news? Non-American? That's my assumption for the LW one. But on quokk.au is it non-Australian?

Regardless, where I choose to post doesn't help when I'm commenting on another post. Which is most often the case in any world news Community.

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[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Lemkin's original definition of genocide includes just destroying everythibg a culture is, including its methods of social reproduction so that it cannot continue, whether a single drop of blood is spilled or not.

So with a broad definition, ending the genocide would be genocide. Thinking about the implications of that is antisemitic.

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[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (5 children)

You misunderstand.

@DeathToTheIDF@lemmings.world is an alt account of a banned user, formerly named AntiYank

They create accounts every few days and post trollish stuff.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm surprised they're still around. That's some dedication for a platform they say they despise

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Some users appear to be entirely sustained on hating the platform and/or its devs. As long as it exists they have a mission, possibly from god.

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[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok, what about the main complaint under discussion? That apparently it's not allowed to call for the Palestinians to fight back against the IDF?

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[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Regardless. The mod is removing anybody comment about death to the idf. The occupation force that is currently committing a genocide and that international law give Palestinians the right to self defense against them

[–] JonsJava@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I wasn't speaking to that, as I don't mod that community. I can only speak to AntiYank

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[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

Poor world news mods can’t catch a break today. PTB

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