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  • PTB. .world's stances continue to be completely indistinguishable from State Department propaganda. I guess it was only a matter of time until the mods started cracking down on anti-Zionism. Fully expect to see them ban someone for promoting BDS next.

    • Would be hillarious if they put an anti-BDS clause in the .world terms of service.

      • Honestly, they should just make users recite the Pledge of Allegiance to sign up.

    • What a shocker that someone banned from a community for trolling and sharing misinformation is here to let everyone know that said community is bad.

  • PTB.

    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.

    • 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".

  • It’s sort of fun to note that many of the people that are always upset and angry about .world moderation are the ones that have been banned for trolling and spreading misinformation there.

    It’s almost as if there’s a bias from the people that are always accusing others of bias!

  • YDI

    I mean ... That statement itself isn't just anti-zionist. You literally say a whole group of people should not exist. It's only not technically racist because it's a religious slant, not a racial one. It's still hateful.

    I am pro-Palestinian, too. That doesn't mean I think all Israelis should die.

    • Well that’s great, but they didn’t say Israelis should die either, so I dunno why you’re claiming they did.

    • Nowhere does it say all Israelis should die, it says the nation doesn't have a right to exist.

      Those are two different ideas. Like how Israel says Palestine doesn't exist, and also commit genocide to its people. There are nations that don't think Palestine exists and don't do that. Same for Israel.

    • That's completely ridiculous. How the hell do you get from "Israel doesn't have a right to exist" to "all Israelis should die?" Israel is a state, saying it doesn't have a right to exist is opposing the state, the same way if I said "Nazi Germany doesn't have a right to exist" I'm not calling for everyone in Nazi Germany to be put to death, I'm calling for the elimination of the state.

    • Israel is a terrorist organization not a group of people.

      My statement is the literal definition of anti-Zionism.

  • Clueless mod.

    While the comment definitely needed removal, that's not a form of racism.

    https://phys.org/news/2025-04-subreddits-highlights-hidden-ways-speech.html

    • There can be some arguments made in good faith against existence of Israel.

      Israel exists because of one of the last follies of colonial empires before they stopped having enough push for this kind of things. It was created by displacing whole peoples based on agreement made over their heads. Continued existence of Israel has shown that it’s an apartheid expansionist state built on a dangerous mixture of religious zealotry and nationalism.

      I think Germans should make their last „sorry guys” and give them some land. I know it wasn’t feasible before because Jews were scared of their oppressors but you can’t say Germans are in any shape or form antisemitic these days. I guess Middle Eastern immigrants in Germany would take an some issue with that but that’s German domestic politics. Then Germans can stop feeling sorry and they can also stop supplying weapons to kill Palestinians.

      • Sure, but that's different than the dog whistle that is the specific line in question here.

        I know, not everyone has the leisure to keep track of all of those. There's just so damn many of them nowadays. And they've spread beyond the people that started using them into the general populace, which means they've been successful in one part of their original intent.

        But, the arguments that Israel is a rogue state would be out of scope here, even though I agree with that.

        Edit: linking in the brand new study involving dog whistles https://phys.org/news/2025-04-subreddits-highlights-hidden-ways-speech.html

        I'm not talking out my ass

    • While the comment definitely needed removal

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      • Sure.

        The only people that regularly say that Israel doesn't have a right to exist are stirring shit, it isn't a good faith argument. It never, ever, leads to a good conversation where everyone stays chill and on topic.

        There's the implication that jews have no right to a homeland of some kind, which is probably why they attributed it to racism (antisemitism), but it isn't necessarily about that. It could be, I don't know your stance in that regard, but it's definitely anti Israeli, which is a fairly pernicious loophole, imo.

        If you're saying that no nation has a right to exist, fine, cool, maybe saying that would have been a better choice. But you can't pretend you don't know that that rhetoric is also slung around by antisemites.

        Now, I gotta add my usual warning here. This community isn't the place to debate the issue itself. I'm not going to go any further than what's needed to explain my opinion regarding PTB or not. There's a solid community for continuing to debate topics that get locked, and others for political debates in general, if that's your bag.

        Edit: dog whistles and how they spread is not a new idea. I didn't come up with it. And, busy today This was released.

        Anyone thinking that dog whistles shouldn't be removed by mods is blind. It's a major problem on the internet. It doesn't matter who or what the dog whistle targets, it's the fact that it is a tool of bigotry that spreads like a disease, even through places and people that aren't bigots. That's the problem with coded language. It's viral and pernicious.

        The fact that anyone even saw the need to try and study it should be a clear indicator that when a mod, or a user scrolling by, sees a dog whistle in the wild like this, it can't just be shrugged off as unimportant.

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