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crossposted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29579005
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Look at the screenshot I posted! You will spend all day and night arguing but cant look at the first line of the screenshot I posted… how is anyone supposed to believe youre acting in good faith?
EDIT: heres tha screenshot for ya:
Lmao, not sure why you highlighted the comment at the bottom and clipped out the messages that directly preceded that comment. I don’t even know if they’re saying that to you, let alone what it was that made them say it.
I guess i’ll just have to take your word for it that they were talking to you, and it was in response to you being american? Sounds like you had just defended Zionism from context, but I literally don’t see it. Honestly, could you just post the link to the post? I have no idea why so much of your story isn’t being comported by the screenshots you’re sharing but it’s hard to believe you when you’re being so opaque.
If you were running defense for the IDF or Israeli war crimes I don’t know what to tell you.
Posting a link would prove they’re not the victim and infact are the agitator, so they won’t.
The reason I highlighted It is because its him explaining that Im a settler because I live on settled land… and hes calling for my death because I live on settled land. Its him explaing that he is calling for the death of all americans because we live on settled land… I dont have screenshots of the things that were deleted but you cna clearly see the mods dont care about commies calling for the death of all americans because only my comments were deleted. The first comment on that screenshot was me asking him why he was slandering me for calling me a “settler nazi” when I denounce the palestinian and american genocides…
I keep saying I denounce isreali war crimes and that theyre clearly engaging in genocide! I keep saying theyre lying and the only “proof” anyone posted was just a hexbear accusing me and me replying that Im NOT defending the IDF. what more do you want? and why do you not care about him calling for my death or the deaths of all americans?
Well he’s actually saying he hopes those who are resisting the nazis you’re not caping for put you on a pike, so I guess you shouldn’t be worried
Idk man this whole thing stinks of mischaracterization and knowing your opinion of two pretty open zionists makes me really not trust you
But for sure what I’m not seeing is him calling for the death of all Americans.
Why shouldnt I be worried? Hes saying he hopes the US gets invaded and everyone gets put on pikes. And I asked them to clarify, and they responded very clearly that he means all people on settled land. Meaning everyone in america…
You say theyre zionists because there citizens of isreal.
You say theyre bad because of their ethnicity.
You dont care that they denounce the genocide, just their race. How can you not see that that is racism? Its impossible to not understand this.
@[email protected] makes some excellent points below. You should maybe chill and take them on board. It’s easy to leap to the wrong conclusions based on faulty assumptions.
Also, this is way off topic.
Jesus, we’re feeling dramatic
No, he’s saying you, not americans. He called you a settler who was caping for nazis, and he hoped the people resisting them put you on a pike. You asked (I assume, based on his response) what made you a ‘settler’, and explained what that is (any member of a settler colonial state, which includes the US), but it looks as if the fact that you were defending the nazis is why he hoped you got put on a pike. You were the one who came to the erroneous conclusion that settlers and ethno-nationalists were the same, not him.
No, what makes someone a zionist is their belief that ethnic Jews deserve their own state, primarily through the colonization of Israel via the displacement of native Palestinians. What makes them bad is their belief they have exclusive right to that land, and their willingness to conduct a decades-long genocide in order to realize it.
It is extremely dangerous to conflate zionism and Judaism, and you should absolutely shut the fuck up about this issue unless you understand the implications of your language. There are millions of Christian and secular americans (this you?) who are zionists, and i’d condemn them just as soon as i’d condemn an ethnic jew for supporting zionism.
I don’t care if they ‘denounce’ genocide so long as they’re still justifying it as necessary or inevitable, and that’s exactly what makes Hila and Ethan Zionists. American colonists justified genociding the natives west of the mississippi because they believed they had ‘manifest destiny’ and because they believed the Natives were dangerous barbarians (sound familiar?), and this is no different and no less contemptible.
Right, just like opposing Nazi occupation of Poland would be racist against Germans. A nazi is a nazi whether they’re a German citizen or not, and Zionists are Zionists whether they’re Israeli (or Jewish) or not. Ethno-nationalism is ethno-nationalism.
You jumped in their DMs to fight them? You defended Zionism? You took offense to being a member of colonialism and not doing anything about that?
Man you really are not the victim, you had it coming.
Im not defending zionism! They deleted my comment and lied about what I said! I repeatedly explain that but you refuse to acknowledge that, and even repeat the claims!
I keep posting the screenshots where he calls for my death, but you are pretending like that is impossible to find.
And yeah, after I was banned from the sub I responded to the guy In DM because I couldnt in the thread, and as soon as he indicated that they didnt want me messaging them, I stopped; but for some reason you think that is a bad thing…
Its wild that you would say DMing is bad, but calling for my death only because Im american doesnt even matter to you…
They never called for your death. I’m also an American, and they never called for my death. Your ego is breaking, go see a therapist.
You realize pikes kill people right? How can you say he never called for my death? You are clearly just lieing to defend the tankie…
Disengage.
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