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I would say the same thing about the J word. But you get banned if you say the J word. So Zionist it is.
You don't get banned for saying "Jews". You WILL get banned for saying the Jews should be exterminated, or that "100% of Jews..."
We do not tolerate hate speech, no matter who it's directed at.
To my understanding Jew is not perjorative but could be in context eg if offense is obviously intended or if mention of ethnicity or religion is otherwise irrelevant.
Correct, there's nothing perjorative about "Jews", but the overall context can be concerning.
People get all hot and bothered and start conflating "Jews" with "Israelis" and "Zionists".
You can be a non-Israeli Jew. You can be a non-Jewish Zionist, they don't all mean the same thing.
It sure feels like any disagreement with a certain group. Gets you banned.
You're welcome to disagree, just don't make hateful statements.
It's more that pretending certain groups are a monolith, or really pretending anything is something it's not, to justify hate speech is banned. Sure, it's easy to pretend that all Jews are Zionists (ergo all Jews are pro-genocide) but it's demonstrably untrue and just lazy thinking.
Most Jewish people are pro Israel and amongst those who are most religious or Orthodox most rises to an overwhelming majority.
This isn't pretending an ethic group has negative characteristics from a stereotype this is acknowledging an actual view most in a group have.
Most Americans are pro Christianity. Even if you view Christianity negatively it's ok to say Americans are infatuated with the trappings if not the actual virtues of Christianity because it's true even if this isn't true of every single one of us.
Right, but "most" is not "monolith." There's around 16 million jews worldwide, so even if 90% of jews are pro-zionist that's still over a million non-zionist jews. List of Jewish anti-Zionist organizations. Generalizations about groups of people are harmful even if they're true, because it's unfair to the those who don't fit the generalization.
Fuck off Nazi, anyone with sense knows the difference between Zionism and Jews.
“A certain percentage of rhombuses have four equal sides.”
“I think that percentage is 100.”
“I would say the same about rectangles, but you get banned if you say rectangles. So rhombuses it is.”
Not all rectangles are rhombuses. And not all rhombuses are rectangles. Don’t be racist and you won’t get banned.
anti-zionist jews are some of the loudest voices and most crucial organizers of resistance against the zionist occupation of palestine. fuck right off you antisemitic piece of shit.
I’m not an anti-Semite. I’m from a similar tribe as Jewish people. I just have family who lived through their own genocide and I have no patience for people perpetrating genocide in the this modern era. If I can’t be objective against this group for what I have anecdotally experienced. Then what do you call that? Because that’s not free speech. I don’t call people names or call them slurs.
A: what exactly is a "similar tribe as Jewish people"? Like, Arabic? Cause that doesn't exactly preclude being racist against Jews...
B: my man, you literally just said that all Jews are blood thirsty monsters, and they should be taken out before they can harm other people. You can't seriously think you can somehow flip that around as some sort of enlightened anti-genocide platform.
Friendly reminder that even being Jewish doesn't preclude being racist against Jews.
Armenian. Our genetics show up as Jewish on 23 and me because we are similar tribes from wayyyyyyyyyy back. I also had my entire male side of my family killed in the Armenian genocide. And my aunts turned into slave sex workers for the Turks.
I am not who you replied to, but my guesses:
A: Romani B: The post they were replying "100%" to specified zionists.
While I do not agree 100% of zionists are bloodthirsty monsters I do believe any people who claim some holy right to a land are inevitably going to commit atrocities to take or defend their magic dirt.
I'm gonna attach a screenshot so you can see that yes, the post they were replying to did indeed say Zionists, and they made it about all Jews. Not sure what exactly you're trying to say with point B.
To be clear, you're saying that you would say that 100% of Jews should be "taken out," except that this would get you banned?
Absolutely not. I would say zionists need to be stopped judiciously. Through the human rights courts and other organizations. This is all their making. We need to stop them before they start a nuclear war.