Context https://lemmy.world/comment/14641595
Anyone, who doesn’t tread the „destroy Israel“ party line gets banned from !politics@lemmy.world
Edit: although people here hate Israel and different opinions with a passion, nobody could cite the actual rule I broke.
I’m trying dude. But I also don’t want SJW to be a server that has anything to do with politics, so there’s only so much I can do.
All I would say is that it’s much better to have leftist political extremists controlling the discourse rather than than alt right psychos. Ideally the discussion would be more diverse and open minded, but with the tiny userbase that’s not really an option yet.
Your best bet is to avoid discussing the Palestinian conflict entirely. Nothing that we say on Lemmy is going to change what happens IRL anyway.
Wait, so how come that !politics@sh.itjust.works is basically the recommendation for people wanting an alternative to !politics@lemmy.world? Are you admins unhappy with having that community on your instance?
I wasn’t aware of that, but that’s fine. The mods must be doing a good job because I never see reports from that community. I just want to make sure sh.it keeps working, and getting overtly political has a tendency to cause problems.
Cheers to @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works and @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works I guess!
I don’t think we get much credit for that part, tbh. It’s a US based politics community. Thanks anyway though.
The chilling effect is real.
This is Lemmy. IRL Israel is doing whatever they want anyway. It seems apparent that the chilling effect doesn’t affect them whatsoever.
This isn’t a court of law, it’s simply practical advice about how to act on Lemmy so that the platform can grow and succeed. Sometimes you lose the battle but win the war.
I don’t think a platform that promotes antisemitism to a wide audience is worth growing.
Okay… first of all, opposition to the Israeli actions in Palestine is not equivalent to antisemitism. That’s just a fact.
People who are antisemitic are definitely going to take that position, but most people take that position for completely different reasons.
Secondly, the growth of the platform will inherently change the nature of the discourse. If we get tens of thousands more users over here, the conversation will change drastically. That’s why starting from a position that challenges the dominant mainstream discourse is an advantage for Lemmy, because that position is guaranteed to be diluted as we grow.
Obviously not. Demonization, delegitimization, and calling for the destruction of the only Jewish state is antisemitic though.