what eighty years of anticommunist propaganda does to a mf

We take politics so seriously that we don’t take the political compass meme the least bit seriously:
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Political_Compass

oh right duh

TBF most Israelis are no less “white” than Italians, because that’s what Ashkenazi Jews largely are genetically.

@BrainInABox@lemmy.ml, remember that you’re on lemmy.world, where reporting someone for being a Zionist is likely to only backfire.

This is Holocaust exceptionalism. It is a trivialization of the slow, grinding genocide that Israel has been prosecuting for the last eighty years.

The great majority of Gazans were born in and have lived their entire lives in that open-air prison, that ghetto, their parents having been condemned there, many after their homes were stolen in the Nakba ethnic cleansing campaign. All Palestinians in Israel have lived under apartheid, settler-colonial rule their entire lives, in their own land, under military occupation.

Your whataboutism thought-terminating cliché is in bad faith.

Citations Needed podcast: Whataboutism - The Media’s Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy

Since the beginning of what’s generally called ‘RussiaGate’ three years ago, pundits, media outlets, even comedians have all become insta-experts on supposed Russian propaganda techniques. The most cunning of these tricks, we are told, is that of “whataboutism” – a devious Soviet tactic of deflecting criticism by pointing out the accusers’ hypocrisy and inconsistencies. The tu quoque - or, “you, also” - fallacy, but with a unique Slavic flavor of nihilism, used by Trump and leftists alike in an effort to change the subject and focus on the faults of the United States rather than the crimes of Official State Enemies.

But what if “whataboutism” isn’t describing a propaganda technique, but in fact is one itself: a zombie phrase that’s seeped into everyday liberal discourse that – while perhaps useful in the abstract - has manifestly turned any appeal to moral consistency into a cunning Russian psyop. From its origins in the Cold War as a means of deflecting and apologizing for Jim Crow to its braindead contemporary usage as a way of not engaging any criticism of the United States as the supposed arbiter of human rights, the term “whataboutism” has become a term that - 100 percent of the time - is simply used to defend and legitimizing American empire’s moral narratives.

Ben Burgis at Current Affairs: Is “Whataboutism” Always a Bad Thing?

Discussing the crimes of our own country as well as the crimes of others is not always an effort to downplay other countries’ crimes—it can be a test of whether we are serious about our principles.

You’re right, the Jews should have negotiated their way out of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Surely a reasonable deal could have been made with the Nazi génocidaires.

No, not every land grab is a Lebensraum, but these are by Israel’s many own admissions over several generations.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel
• Inside ‘Greater Israel’: myths and truths behind the long-time Zionist fantasy
• Israel continues to push for “Greater Israel” amid massacres in the West Bank and Gaza

Is this stuff censored in Germany?

Edit to add: Jugding by your modlog, I think you’re just a hasbara troll.

Good luck. This person is recalcitrant in her position while never bringing arguments or receipts. You’re likely to get nothing but a broken record.

You know that was hasbara, right? Previously:

conflation of state and people that Hamass ideology clearly makes

A Document of General Principles and Policies

by largely targeting and slaughtering civilians in their homes

That is not what happened. That is what Western media said happened.

• The Intercept:
  • Netanyahus War on Truth
  • The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Expos�
• Al Jazeera: Why did Israel deploy Hannibal Directive, allowing killing of own citizens?
• Electronic Intifada: How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October

 

If Hamas wants to dismantle Israeli oppression through activism, negotiations, and political reform great.

1. It has tried to do that for decades. The most recent significant attempt was Great March of Return, wherein the IDF slaughtered Gazans.

Few ever explicitly call for Palestinian genocide in mixed company. Instead they hasbara. And most Zionists in the fediverse are liberal Zionists who don’t want to see a genocide, but somehow still haven’t come to terms with reality after almost a year and a half of genocide.

Because Palestinians have the legal right under UN law to struggle against their occupiers by any means necessary, including armed struggle, while Israel, as an occupier, has no right to “self defense.”

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_as_settler_colonialism
• Philosophy prof. Hans-Georg Moeller: 📺 Guilt Pride: A German Vanity Project Conquering the World

Why do you tankies always lie

Why do I keep running into people calling others “tankies” who are very explicitly anti-“tankie?”

Why is a Nazi calling to kill non-whites radically worse than a communist calling for the death of non-communists?

😂

Oooh, they downvoted you with both of their accounts.

No. The majority of Israelis are Ashkenazi Jews from Europe. They are European settler-colonists on occupied land.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israelis#Jews
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews
• https://www.nbcnews.com/sciencemain/most-ashkenazi-jews-are-genetically-europeans-surprising-study-finds-8c11358210
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionism_as_settler_colonialism

Edit to add: I took a peak at your modlog; it’s filled with fascist brainworms.

One might think so because the image is https://hexbear.net/PPB, but the person was responding to defenders of Zionism. So a Hexbear-hating Zionist seems more likely.

Usually this is the way. Once you enter xargs’ world, you lose access to your shell aliases, functions, and un-exported variables, which will often bite you in the ass.

They are very clearly distinguishable, just not to you yet. Until recently, you’d only ever heard disagreements coming from your right, so you confuse disagreements coming from your left with them.

• ‘Horseshoe theory’ is nonsense – the far right and far left have little in common
• Are the far-left and far-right merging together? That’s what the ‘horseshoe theory’ of politics says, but it’s wrong

 
Liberalism in fact has more in common with fascism than socialism: they’re both capitalist ideologies. Previously.