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Ethno-states run by power-tripping pigs have no right to exist.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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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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That said you're biting obvious bait - a good chunk of those discussions boil down to ambiguous words referring to both actual human beings and states/governments, to defend the later as if it was an attack on the former.
*LATER EDIT: upon the mod reinstating the comment, I'm changing my judgment to CLM.
And it's worth noting the judgment only applies to the comment shown in the original post - since the user in question is clearly eager to lie in order to accuse others, and their behaviour borders concern trolling.
Yes, people called Israel exist.
But from the thread the comment was placed in, it should be clear I was talking about the apartheid colonizing Palestine. Not a persons right to existence
It was clear for me, too. However, a lot of people struggle to tell apart two things when you use the same word to refer to them, and that's one of those cases.
My suggestion in this regard is to always use "state of Israel" instead. You'll still get some bans, but it becomes harder for supporters of the genocidal state to claim "no, ur teh 1 defending genoside".
This would require acknowledging Israel as a state, which it is not.
Nobody uses the term "state of Israel to refer to it. Demonstrated by the title of the posted article "Israel announces expansion...". Not a single person raises the question if this means a person called "Israel" is planning to become so obese that they occlude the Gaza strip.
The word "Israel" suffices and the .World moderators know perfectly well what is means. There is no ambiguity to hide behind.
This would require acknowledging Israel as a state, which it is not.
Israel is a government controlling a population and a territory. It is a state by definition. To claim otherwise is fucking stupid.
And that's central here. A state is an "it"; unlike human beings, it has no right to defend itself. And it should be dismantled once it harms actual people, just like Nazi Germany was.
Demonstrated by the title of the posted article
Yeah, just like article titles demonstrate English has no articles. Pfffft.
Not a single person raises the question
That's why you totally weren't banned for "racism", as if you were targetting actual people instead of a genocidal power structure, right? Right??? Oh wait.
The word “Israel” suffices
This sounds exactly the same as
"Since I'm too stubborn to avoid falling into the sort of trap nationalists love to set up, I'll keep helping the Zionists and clueless muppets to equate «attacks against Israel» = «racism»."
You might not be a Zionist but you're certainly eager to contribute with them.
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