Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod
aleph@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I was also banned from worldnews@lemmy.ml for “Re-enforcing liberal cultural hegemony” and “Believes in objectivity in media lmao”.
My offense? Saying that a report from sourced from Al-Jazeera regarding another massacre of civilians and aid workers in Gaza needed to be corroborated by further evidence before we regard it as hard fact.
The irony is I’m very much pro-Palestinan. According to the mods, however, that apparently means I have to throw all media literacy out of the window and blindly take any anti-Israel claims without question.
I start almost every comment I make on those instances with
I know this will net me a ban
to play a bit of reverse psychology with the mods there, who don’t touch my comments when the denizens there inevitablely say
Oh yeah you think you’re so smart well we don’t ban opposing opinions unlike some places
And the mods there have their hands tied because banning me would prove their own guys wrong.
It’s worked pretty well so far.
This…… is fucking brilliant.
There’s such a polarization and paranoia that any comment that’s not 100% unwavering support is considered an attack.
gigachad@feddit.de 7 months ago
That community is wild, but the discussion over Gaza over there is fucking crazy. Al Jazeera is one of their more credible sources, you can find articles from websites nobody every heard of, small blogs that state IDF soldiers are eating babies. And that is no exaggeration, that was the last thing I read before I left that community…
aleph@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Exactly what prompted me to comment, since the blog that sourced Al-Jazeera also made almost of claims that didn’t seem based on anything like actual evidence, although I admit it wasn’t anything near as extreme as the IDF canibalizing babies.
If we must call out pro-Israel propaganda that makes outrageous, unsubstantiated claims like that, we must do the same for pro-Palestinian propaganda, regardless of how we personally feel about the conflict.