cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46148690
Over the past few days, @MrKaplan@lemmy.world/@MrKaplan@piefed.world has banned multiple users, blocked entire comms, and now defederated from Anarchist.Nexus over their anti-Zionist stance.
This extreme overreaction and general power trippin’ bastard behavior stems from Lemmy.world’s history of pro-Zionist views. And now MrKaplan is seeking out the flimsiest pretext to to enact his own personal vendetta.
Free Palestine, Death to Israel, Death to Zionism.
Lemmy.world is a ZioNazi instance. Avoid it like the plague.
I know what they mean.
You should also know that those terms are so overused as insults that they effectively don’t have a definition other than:
Shitlib/Zionist - adj. ‘a person who possibly takes a different position as me, idk I’m too lazy to actually understand them but I want validation from the Internet and these words get me upvotes’
No. They are insults to terrible people justifying the unjustifiable and has very concrete definitions
What they mean and how they are commonly used on social media are two different things.
Someone called me a zionist in this thread. It wasn’t based on any kind of reality as I never stated any opinion in any comment here about Israel and my comment history is certainly anti-zionist. They were not saying it because it is definitionally true, because it isn’t.
They called me that because they perceived me as being on a different ‘side’ than them and know that using that term as an insult in a space like this is guaranteed to put them on the right side of the dogpile.
They were not using the term as it is defined, i.e. a supporter of zionism. They were using it as an insult to attack me, i.e. ‘hey this person is bad, get them!’.
Let see. Do you believe that the way Israel was created was illegitimate ? Do you agree that Israel alone is the only responsible for Palestinians being occupied for 78 years? Do you agree that Palestinians has the right to armed resistance?
All good questions.
Not that it matters at all for my point but, yes, yes and yes.
The person is an idiot, they have no idea of my opinions. Their label wasn’t about my opinions, it was an attempt to provoke a mob response from other low-effort readers.