Context:
PTB. .world’s stances continue to be completely indistinguishable from State Department propaganda. I guess it was only a matter of time until the mods started cracking down on anti-Zionism. Fully expect to see them ban someone for promoting BDS next.
Would be hillarious if they put an anti-BDS clause in the .world terms of service.
Honestly, they should just make users recite the Pledge of Allegiance to sign up.
PTB
Zionists are on the wrong side of history
Whats PTB?
From the sidebar:
Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless mod: The mod probably just doesn’t understand how their software works.
What a group of assholes to down vote you for asking. It’s pulmonary tuberculosis. I mean that’s the main thing that comes up when searching. It took a couple minutes to find “powers that be” and I’m not sure that that fits perfectly with the flow, or that it would be the most common acronym. I’d assume based on the context of the thread. On the other hand “please text back” is probably more commonly used.
It’s wild how .world has somehow managed to become an even worse reddit lmao
Sorry for not seeing this earlier. Work was hell today.
Your correct. This isn’t racism. I’m reinstating your comment now.
.world is a festering mess of liberalism, you say?
Colour me surprised.
The place that banned all criticism of Biden/Harris and then wondered where all the critics went, justifying their bad beliefs that all of them were bots? Yeah I wonder why its a shitlib utopia.
I don’t actually recall the .world mods or admins themselves calling people bots, and I’ve recently seen them removing comments containing bot accusations.
The admins don’t, but a lot of the userbase used to (and still does) calls anyone who mildly criticized Harris as a secret Russian asset/bot, or a useful idiot who bought into the campaign.
When Biden was bad at the debate and I said “Man he looks so unfit for this” I was called a russian bot. I reported the comments and nothing got removed or banned.
And I recently got banned from !politicalmemes@lemmy.world because I defended myself from a moronic shitlib troll. The troll didn’t get banned, I did.
Conflating zionist state of israel with the jewish people is anti-semitism. Israel does not represent all jewish people worldwide.
Zionists occupying Gaza is itself anti-semitic, as the occupied residents are mostly semitic peoples. And there is absolutely a racial component.
If u want a news community without power tripping mods I run !news_summary@hilariouschaos.com
Isn’t that an actual nazi instance?
No its an instance that allows free speech. Allowing people to say any shit that’s isn’t calling for violence isn’t Nazism its free speech.
Allowing people to say nazi shit is nazism.
One could make an argument that a lot of comments relating to the speech I see on Lemmy related to Israel and the jews is Nazism.
Of course they could make that argument. You can make any argument you want, even if the argument is stupid, like yours just now. That’s how arguing works.
It’s a troll instance. So, same thing.
Hot take: Both sides suck.
Ah yes… “The genociders and their victims… Both terrible!!!” Genius take. Very common in the imperial core.
That’s a pretty anti-semitic comment
Clueless mod.
While the comment definitely needed removal, that’s not a form of racism.
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-subreddits-highlights-hidden-ways-speech.html
While the comment definitely needed removal
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Sure.
The only people that regularly say that Israel doesn’t have a right to exist are stirring shit, it isn’t a good faith argument. It never, ever, leads to a good conversation where everyone stays chill and on topic.
There’s the implication that jews have no right to a homeland of some kind, which is probably why they attributed it to racism (antisemitism), but it isn’t necessarily about that. It could be, I don’t know your stance in that regard, but it’s definitely anti Israeli, which is a fairly pernicious loophole, imo.
If you’re saying that no nation has a right to exist, fine, cool, maybe saying that would have been a better choice. But you can’t pretend you don’t know that that rhetoric is also slung around by antisemites.
Now, I gotta add my usual warning here. This community isn’t the place to debate the issue itself. I’m not going to go any further than what’s needed to explain my opinion regarding PTB or not. There’s a solid community for continuing to debate topics that get locked, and others for political debates in general, if that’s your bag.
Edit: dog whistles and how they spread is not a new idea. I didn’t come up with it. And, busy today This was released.
Anyone thinking that dog whistles shouldn’t be removed by mods is blind. It’s a major problem on the internet. It doesn’t matter who or what the dog whistle targets, it’s the fact that it is a tool of bigotry that spreads like a disease, even through places and people that aren’t bigots. That’s the problem with coded language. It’s viral and pernicious.
The fact that anyone even saw the need to try and study it should be a clear indicator that when a mod, or a user scrolling by, sees a dog whistle in the wild like this, it can’t just be shrugged off as unimportant.
The only people that regularly say that Israel doesn’t have a right to exist are stirring shit,
Israel doesn’t have a right to exist.
Jews don’t have the right to kill other people and steal their land. Nobody has a Reicht to do that. This is not a “controversial” viewpoint.
By that argument no countries have a right to exist.
By singling out Israel people will assume you’re pushing the same antisemitic line.
Make better arguments and maybe that won’t be so easily swatted down.
By that argument no countries have a right to exist.
Correct. Borders are lines drawn in the sand because of modern warlords called politicians.
By singling out Israel people will assume you’re pushing the same antisemitic line.
“No one has the right to murder for land gain.”
“That’s wildly antisemitic!”
“I’m talking about Russia attacking Ukraine.”
Murder and war is bad. It’s not unique to Israel that murder is bad, because bloodshed is bad when any nation does it in the name of nationalism, and genocide.
No settler colony has a right to exist. If you believe people have the right to kill Palestinians and steal their land because “they’re Jewish”, then you are the racist.
This is akin to removing comments saying Russia has no right to colonize Ukraine.
Stop putting words in my mouth.
If you say “X has no right to exist” you’re going to get shut down because it’s a lazy inflammatory argument.
I am not putting words in your mouth your argument is complete nonsense
Since you still don’t get it let’s do a 1 for 1 comparison and swap for Israel with another religious ethogroup which murders civilians because it believes it has a right to a historical land.
Does ISIS-K have a right to exist in Syria?
By that argument no countries have a right to exist.
Now you’re getting it.
YDI
I mean … That statement itself isn’t just anti-zionist. You literally say a whole group of people should not exist. It’s only not technically racist because it’s a religious slant, not a racial one. It’s still hateful.
I am pro-Palestinian, too. That doesn’t mean I think all Israelis should die.
Nowhere does it say all Israelis should die, it says the nation doesn’t have a right to exist.
Those are two different ideas. Like how Israel says Palestine doesn’t exist, and also commit genocide to its people. There are nations that don’t think Palestine exists and don’t do that. Same for Israel.
Israel is a terrorist organization not a group of people.
My statement is the literal definition of anti-Zionism.
That’s completely ridiculous. How the hell do you get from “Israel doesn’t have a right to exist” to “all Israelis should die?” Israel is a state, saying it doesn’t have a right to exist is opposing the state, the same way if I said “Nazi Germany doesn’t have a right to exist” I’m not calling for everyone in Nazi Germany to be put to death, I’m calling for the elimination of the state.
