TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion

Imagine being a teenager and being against teenagers getting killed. What is this world coming to?

I don’t understand why so many stop doing so.

Tiktok also didn't censor the major protests in France like Facebook and Twitter did at the time.

Theres only a handful of social media outlets. Tik tok is just not suppressing the Pro Palestine content like Western owned media outlets have been.

We speak lots of " free speech " in the West, but look how quick, German, British, American, Canadian government and media spheres are united in calling Palestine protestors terrorists and supporting hamas.

Its just our lack of free speech being exposed when it goes against the powers that be.

There's a ton of support for the Palestinian people out there. It would strongly appear to be suppressed on commercial social media sites. I can't say that Tiktok isn't amplifying it, but as you poke around on open social platforms that tend to censor less, you see a lot more Pro-Palestine news and content. If you go through twitter or facebook and find specific regional bloggers, the content is out there but if doesn't seem to pass the algorithm

Maybe the U.S. upvoted that to discredit China /j

China gains nothing by Mideast conflict.

Israel - clearly does not care about things like democracy and human rights.

I can see them drawing closer to China.

They turned Gaza into a concentration camp.

As Jews, they should absolutely know better.

The problem is their behavior and rhetoric towards Palestine resembles a sentiment shared by the OG Nazis

In a context where we have the lies about the hospitals having tunnels under them, that 40 non-existent babies were beheaded and where some key facts about Oct 7 have somewhat unravelled, how far would you even bother policing the words of people wishing for a liberated Palestinian?

The Israelis and their supporters are also notorious liars and frequently try to claim that Muslims or brown people were responsible for the Holocaust in Europe.

They've bombed civilians before and the intelligence they send tend to be garbage according to EU after they looked through the reams of documents the Israelis sent them. As an occupier, Israel behaves like a country at war all the time, they lie, kill and cheat perpetually.

The comparisons to the Nazis are actually inescapable. I struggle to think of a centrally orchestrated and mechanized system of apartheid/oppression and now genocide that's more similar.

The Nazis forced Jews into ghettos. Gaza is a ghetto that Palestinians are forced to live in.

Zionists will not however, directly kill every Palestinian. They will indirectly try to kill every Palestinian by colonizing every last inch of land from the Palestinians. The ones that immigrate away will be too scattered to maintain a coherent ethnicity, and eventually their culture will be erased.

So, while practically speaking they're not as bad as Nazis, they are as effective as Nazis, if not more so.

Interesting, I actually know a couple conservatives that are anti globalism, which justified their anti Israel stance. However, the conservatives I know that are party aligned due to religious preferences... that's another story

Pretty shitty genocide if the population keeps growing...

An ethno-state is based on race superiority that is committing genocide to expand their lebensraum by dehumanizing their enemies and calling for the indiscriminate slaughter of people of a certain race by locking them all up in a giant concentration camp.

Now where the fuck did I hear they one before? Oh yeah the Nazi's. It's almost comical how much israel is a copy of Nazi Germany.

You are correct that I will call every israel sympathizer a Nazi because they are Nazi's by practically everyx single definition.

I stand for the people. I support Israel, but not it's far right government that wants to kill all palestinian people and take their lands, but at the same time, I support Palestine, but not it's extremist terrorist leaders.

Wars are fought between two or more governments for their own goals and is a competition who cal kill the other side the most (including it's civilians).

You can support a country without supporting their government, however people sometimes tend to be lazy and just say "fuck Israel" instead of saying "fuck the government of Israel", or say "fuck Palestine" by being ignorant instead of saying "fuck HAMAS".

Innocent people should not be vilified for just wanting to live their lives in peace.

The English language is great. If your friend was recently kicked out of their house by a Nazi and is arguing with them about it, you can see if things get violent and call out "hey, Nazi debater!" and they will both turn their heads, unsure if you're talking to them or the other guy. Hilarity will ensue from this small confusion, and all will end well.

That having been said, the Nazi will still conveniently forget all their country's history, will declare they are the "pure" or "chosen" ones, and proceed to cleanse the ones that don't fit their world view, including your friend.

You can say "the world would be better without Israel" without actually calling for the eradication of the country. I think creating Israel was a historical mistake, but that doesn't make it a mistake you can just paint over. Solutions must come from acknowledging the current reality and the innocent people who live at both sides of the border and their rights and dignity.

Israel has allowed settlers to continuously claim land from the West Bank, enclosing its territory from the Palestinians who already lived there, preventing the Palestinian Authority from imprisoning settlers or kicking them out, and refusing to pursue legal action against settlers while illegally imprisoning Palestinians for retaliating when they see their land getting stolen without anyone defending them.

Ignoring all the ongoing colonization, didn't they just take Jerusalem a couple years ago when Trump said they could put their embassy there?

They want the land and the $500 billion worth of natural gas in the sea

1h, 0 downvotes.

Good luck buddy.

I'd say they're good at it considering they're getting away with it.

Wow you literally went so "whataboutist" that you actually say "what about" in your sentence.

Sounds pretty convincing, but you lost me in the end. Who did "exact same thing" in 2016, 2020, and 2022? Are you implying that Russia and/or China were trying to increase the harm done to the US that way? I'm quite at a loss here

The Chinese TikTok has videos of scientists and musicians and engineers all tackling major problems. It’s inspirational

My TikTok FYP is various scientists/science commenters, stand up comedians, chubby goth girls dancing, Magic The Gathering card reviews, and swinger shit.

If you engage only with things you like, you'll only see things you like.

A lot of the best sci-fi is coming out of China these days. People who like to theorize about these things point to a population, much like America in the post war Baby Boom, seeing for themselves the benefits science can bring to their lives as China pretty rapidly develops, and being fascinated by what could be next.

So you might need to accept that the most popular trending American social media is venal and insipid because the average American wants to see venal and insipid, while the Chinese population might just be interested in things that interest them.

It's a false dichotomy to condition ceasing the extermination of a whole innocent population to protests towards a terrorist organization. Israel does not need to bomb several hospitals to stop Hamas. There are other ways to go about stopping terrorists.

Maybe you don't see many calls at Hamas because people are catching up with how wholesale persecution and extermination of people is often justified by pointing to a few malicious individuals that are part of that population.

Because they're not going to do that. You can't call them terrorists and expect logical reasonable action or reaction.

The Palestinian people by in large did not vote Hamas in, over 50% of the people in Gaza were not alive during the last election.

How is this racist? Behavior of BJP mob on Reddit was observable by how r/worldnews looked like depending on time of the day.

55% of Islamophobic tweets originated in India: https://apo.org.au/node/318935

Racism is when you don't want muslim people to be oppressed and murdered? 🤔

Islam isn't a race, and Indian Muslims aren't Arab...they're Indian, like Pakistanis are Indian and not Arab...

Thanks A_Random_Idiot

My ancestors since the 1700s were part of a pacifist tradition so I'm well aware of how controversial it is lol

Let's not gloss over your first point too much. Like yeah the average American voter probably likes Israel for religious/Zionist reasons, but the American politicians and generals that want to be friends with Israel are definitely in it for the strategic value of having an ally in the Middle East. Like, you think Biden gives a shit about Zionism? Nah. He just likes the military industrial complex

Yeah, the US is the only thing keeping Israel in business. They're useful to keep an eye on Iran, because we don't like Iran, because...?

Saudis need our weapons, and Qatar likes the money we spend to keep our increasing number of bases there. But these are purely transactional relationships that we can have with anyone.

I think Kuwait are still fans of the US.

Other than that, everyone hates us because we protect Israel, and they hate Israel. Why don't we just join the club, and pick up an entire region of strategic allies instead of "Israel at all costs"?

pro-Palestinean != pro-Hamas

Also, Trump is an even bigger puppet for Israel, so voting him wouldn't help either.

Palestine is not a country... It's an oppressed region with 0 chance of liberation, since their leaders are more focused on arming their children and raping their enemies' wives than actually developing their infrastructures and education system. And the whole world just lets those leaders keep that power which they keep on corrupting.

To be fair to them, it's not as though the Israel Palestine conflict is black and white. It is pretty well known to be one of the most complex conflicts in human history.

Just about any statement that isn't very well researched and laboriously constructed is like 95% likely to be reductive to some and offensive to others.

I'm sure someone reads this post as reductive, and I am only tangentially referring to the conflict.

Edit: beyond this comment we see people continuing to try to distill a multigenerational war down to a paragraph. Brilliant. Y'all should start writing history books since y'all have such a firm grasp on it all!

Ahh yes, that's a good take, I forgot that the Gaza Strip area is extremely young compared to the average, but please educate me then. I wasn't suggesting that the Palestinians deserve this for supporting or voting for Hamas, they have their justified reason.

As I recall Hamas has initiated massacres (and before, also installing military buildings in civil areas and probably some more). Just to not sound biased of course Israel had made its fair share of war crimes like bombing civilian areas where military buildings weren't even present and bunch more probably.

Of course, it's absolutely brutal observing this even more so that the Israeli minister didn't give 2 shits to the Pope's request (ironic), but what can we do? Can we really put a stop to this without escalating things further and risking creating a bigger conflict than it currently is?

Yeah. Like obviously no one thinks that what Hamas is doing is in any way right, but at the same time Palestine has been shrinking. Palestinians have been treated poorly for decades, and they have no recourse.

It’s hardly surprising that an organisation like Hamas would crop up. People are being erased and they want desperately to continue living.

I cannot truthfully say that I wouldn’t lash out in violence if my life was threatened.

Hmm haven't heard of it, but I believe in your statement.

Israel has Nukes. Desperate people with Nukes is not a situation we want to reach. It’s so much more complicated then people are willing to admit.

I think an issue that this event has really highlighted is that governments and the people who live there are not the same thing and often have conflicting beliefs

Israel is at the front of the war on the west, from Syria to Lebanon and Iran. It's in the west's interest that they exist and be strong to be a force in the middle east and defend the west from falling to jihadist rule.

Please educate me then. Narrowed down to this conflict only Israel killed HUGE amounts of civilians but Hamas militants initiated this entire conflict by creating massacres all over Israel.

Of course, I'm not stating that Israel or Palestine is doing the right thing, it's just sad (and tiring) to see another war where BOTH sides don't take civilian lives into consideration at all. What's your disagreement for me being indifferent? I would be a pretty happy person if someone could put a stop on this entire conflict, but this probably won't ever happen.