CharlesDarwin1809

Forget air fryers, let’s talk about air friars.

I wonder how long it will take until tankies come into this thread and insist that every Israeli civilian flying on an airplane actually deserves to die…

Edit: the downvotes show that they’ve arrived

I don’t think my view of Israel changes the fact that antisemitism exists

Alot of hate crimes happen against other different communities as well

Yes, and there are specific programmes to tackle those different types of hate crimes, motivated by Islamophobia, or homophobia, or whatever it might be

I know this thread is old but yes I agree with you.

I’m now trying out Piefed because I’m not a fan of the Lemmy developers. I’ve seen some of their mod actions on Lemmy.ml and I don’t agree with their perspectives.

For example, I think imperialist behaviour done by any nation (US, China, Germany, whoever it is) is bad. It means exerting control over people who don’t want it, and can’t vote against it. But the Lemmy.ml mods seem to think that imperialism is fine when it’s done by China or Russia, and imperialism is only bad if it’s done by western countries.

Like many others, I tried out the Fediverse when Reddit nuked third-party apps.

I hadn’t used Reddit’s third-party apps in some years, but the debacle just showed to everyone that Reddit is a for-profit company, and they’ll always put profits ahead of users’ interests.

I think antisemitism is a real problem today. In my country, the UK, within the last year or so, there was an arson attack on Jewish ambulances in London, and a stabbing attack in Manchester in which two Jewish men were killed. Both incidents seem to have been hate crimes.

Just to point out: I don’t support Netanyahu or his government’s genocide of Palestinians, but I’m not going to blame all Jews for that, because I’m not racist.

Anybody can be the victim of ethnic discrimination, regardless of how “powerful”, or powerless, other members of your ethnic group are.

They’re always lurking around the corner, ready to insist that your country is evil and that Russian imperialism is a good thing actually…

But Lemmy.ml told me that Russia is a democratic paradise where the friendly Mr Putin is only in power because nearly all Russians love him and vote for him? Unlike the evil West where democracy doesn’t exist, and elections are just a figment of my imagination.