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Whew! Home stretch, and we're back to the very first thing I talked about here:
Next up? Zionism. He has repeatedly removed posts that are critical of Israel or pro-Palestinian and that's fairly well documented.
The Pro-Palestinian contingent on World is VERY active and VERY angry with good reason. Unfortunately they often make rule breaking posts that have to be removed.
They aren't removed for being Pro-Palestinian, they're removed for a variety of reasons, Youtube video links, image posts, Twitter, and blog posts.
But these two posts stand out to me as particularly obscene. One such example is his patented refusal to ever address proof to the contrary. He listed a source as being antisemitic while using the justification of a Zionist source.
That post wasn't removed for Zionism, that post was removed for being a Substack Blog. We don't allow blogsites. Full stop. The response was the typical whining "But, but, Dropsite is legitimate news!" and my response as always is "Don't care, no blog sites."
Why? Blog sites have no accountability. Anyone, literally anyone, can set up a blog site. Just like anyone can post on Twitter, or Facebook, or upload to YouTube.
Yeah, we don't allow any of those sites EITHER. CNN might have a very good Twitter post, that's going to get removed too. ABC on Facebook? Hell no.
As a mod, I'm not going to engage in a debate over "But, but, you allowed THAT Facebook/Twitter/Substack post, why not miiiiiiiiine?" (and Jesus, THAT conversation happens way too often as it is when we miss a post that should have been removed but either got missed or was never reported.)
When given a litany of Israel critical cartoons but none that are actively antisemitic, he refused to engage. Honestly the entire post also demonstrates a shocking amount of logic that isn't outright Zionist but dancing around the edges and leaving the outline of one.
Honestly not sure what you're saying here? I refused to remove cartoons critical of Israel and... that... somehow means I'm Zionist? Or Zionist adjacent? 🤔
Wouldn't removing them make me a Zionist? I dunno, I've been up for 17 hours now maybe I'm misreading what you're saying here.
Anyway... That's pretty much it for me tonight. Whew! That was a LOT! I'm going to need to bookmark these the next time this stuff comes up. "Here, read this."
- It's only a news site if it uses a custom CMS. Otherwise it's just a sparkling blog.
- You did not help your case whatsoever, so sharing these in the future will make you look even worse. Congrats, I guess?
- The Pro-Palestinian contingent on World is VERY active and VERY angry with good reason. Unfortunately they often make rule breaking posts that have to be removed.
  That rule being "don't sass the pro-genocide contingent."
  
  That rule being "don't advocate violence" which is something Lemmy is all too fond of, Pro-Palestinian or otherwise.
  
  What about the rule against genocide denial, which you've explicitly told me you don't enforce against Gaza genocide deniers?
  
  I have never failed to remove posts about genocide denial. That's an incredibly serious topic and I lean quite heavily on the Geneva definition of genocide as you can see in my post history.
  If something got missed, I may not have seen it or it may not have been reported. The most common comment I saw was "It's not a genocide! They only killed like 200,000 people!" (see point "a" below, you don't have to wipe out everyone for it to be a genocide).
  Israel's action against Palestinians is a genocide, as is Russia's action in Ukraine, China's action with the Uyghur and Myanmar's action with the Rohingya (that nobody seems to give 2 shits about).
  It only takes ONE of the below categories to be a genocide, Israel has run the table going 5 for 5.
  https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/genocide-conv-1948/article-2
  "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
  (a) Killing members of the group;
  (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
  (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
  (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
  (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
  
  I have never failed to remove posts about genocide denial. That’s an incredibly serious topic and I lean quite heavily on the Geneva definition of genocide as you can see in my post history.
  Funny, that's not what you said in PMs.
  
  If something got missed, I may not have seen it or it may not have been reported.
  It didn't get missed, because it was reported, messaged to you, and also you replied to it directly yourself
  Israel’s action against Palestinians is a genocide, as is Russia’s action in Ukraine, China’s action with the Uyghur and Myanmar’s action with the Rohingya (that nobody seems to give 2 shits about).
  And yet only one of them gets a pass on your coms; specifically the one that is actually considered a genocide by independent bodies and not just the West. But of course you'd be trying to equivocate China killing 0 Muslims over a decade with Israel killing 500,000 in two years. Anything to defend Zionism.

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