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Banned from [email protected] for disagreeing that Trump facilitated a ceasefire in Gaza
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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If that was indeed the reason, then that only serves to support the notion that general disagreement, rather than just extremism, is what is being banned from that community. They have every right to ban advocates of genocide for extremism, but in no way do I think that supporting Palestine without supporting Hamas is a position worthy of a ban.
Well... you might have a point. Supporting Palestine without supporting Hamas isn't precisely what you said, though. You said "terrorism" from the Palestinian side. I think without carefully qualifying that to mean that you're only talking about events like October 7th, it's easy for someone to assume you're using the Israeli definition, where any type of resistance at all is "terrorism."
Like I say, I agree with you on this. In any other community I think it would be a clear-cut PTB case of censorship. I'm just saying that when dead family members are involved you have to be extremely careful what you present and how, because it's going to be the easiest thing in the world for people to get heated at you for it.
Consider me uneducated.
I've always thought "one mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter" is worth considering.
Oct 7th is hard to parse as a justified retaliation. But what does a justified attack even look like?
Is Palestine's only moral choice to stand their ground?
It's just a shitty situation. They don't have the power to be able to save themselves. And no one from the outside is coming to help them, while they're dying one by one, families and soldiers, mothers and kids.
Killing, raping, and kidnapping a bunch of people at a music festival is never going to make you a freedom fighter. Not least of which because Israel is going to be ecstatic that you did it, and milk it as far as they can to get away with what they wanted to do anyway, and then hope you do it again so they can "retaliate" and keep cycling the machine. But I can't really answer your question about what I think they should do. I think someone should come from outside, and help them. There's a whole damn world that has that option.