Lemmy.world reportedly bans people for being anti-Zionist. At the same time, numerous human rights organizations have documented that Zionist policies and actions amount to crimes against humanity (e.g., forced displacement, collective punishment, apartheid).
If banning opposition to crimes against humanity is itself anti-humanity, doesn’t that make lemmy.world complicit? How do you reconcile defending a platform that silences critics while atrocities continue?
What happens to them when someone comes along who is pro-zion, but anti-genocide, for the prevention and punishment of genocide, against collective punishment, against false flag attacks, against population displacement & forced relocation, against pro-rape state policy, against jingoist expansionism, against ethno-supremacism, against anti-democratic coups, against dehumanisation? Brains get fried? Or carry-on-dogma without nuance as usual?
You can’t be pro-zionism and anti-genocide
Depends on whose definition, which version of the newspeak dictionary, one uses. I try avoid the language of the oppressor, but it’s not easy. Many do not even realise the etymology, let alone the Orwellian perversion that has them throw a baby out with the bathwater.
Zion’s 'sposa be like paradise on earth, right? Zionism, the right for your people to try to make paradise for your nation, right? Nowhere in that necessitates all the false flag attacks, the dehumanisation, the supremacy, the jingoism, the torture, the rape, the … because of course, that’s not even what that is. Paradise cannot be built with bricks of atrocity. There’s no rest on a bed of blood. There’s no paradise being built there. And so when we use the language of the oppressor, we’re truncating our vocabulary, obliterating words, concepts, in the conflations and inversions, depriving ourselves the means out, perverting our good intentions to serve the ills we fight against.
Though, best of luck to anyone trying get back upstream, this deep in the Orwellian hole.
Sadly Zionism always assumed the displacement of other people, so that some could build their paradise, it also gave up on the idea of building paradise together with other people, rather then a walled garden just for a single people. It’s a fundamentally conservative ideology that assumes that the basic principles of the enlightenment that all people are equal, and that people have the ability to change are false. Read Judenstaat by Herzl I found it to be a very cynical take on things and I couldn’t finish it.
you can be all that but the moment you are prozionist everything else stops making sense
israel is genocidal, there are constant reports (with evidence) of state prisons using rape as punishment, and their media dehumanize every Palestinian comparing them to demons