I was just perusing the modlog when I noticed something interesting. Apparently posting news about Gaza/Palestine is not allowed on !worldnews@sh.itjust.works. I decided to check the side bar and didn’t see anything. The only pinned post also does not indicate that this is not allowed

edit: the mod in question is @Eyekaytee@aussie.zone . sorry for not originally tagging. i hadn’t realized it was a rule that this must be done. i thought it seemed inappropriate since i was trying to initiate a conversation about a community’s rules and culture rather than start drama about an individual

  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
    302·
    3 days ago

    Do you also require:

    • Palestinians denounce Hamas immediately
    • Ukrainians denounce Nazism immediately

    I’m Jewish, and I do not make my anti-Zionism a secret. But israel does not speak for all Jews, expecting all Jews to speak for israel is the type of isolating othering that makes people scared to live in the communities where they are. You can ask a Jewish organization what its stance is before donating or volunteering with them, but demanding Jews “own up” to Israel does the opposite of what you want. You have to understand there’s two major Jewish movements in response to anti-semitism. One is zionism, which maps directly to neocolonialism and the other is Doikayt which is coalition building.

          • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
            3·
            23 hours ago

            as with many simple questions, this has a complex answer. let’s give the simple answer first and expand out from there:

            1. the estxistence of a state throughout history has represented opression through violence. so, no, there is not a state i believe to be not opressive
            2. i am also a realist. i understand that nearly all humans worldwide are subjects of states. the ones who aren’t are so skirted in in their pockets of uncontacted realms that they are still impacted by one state or another. at this current moment in time, i believe the state that treats people with the most dignity is probably Mexico, though i am biased by what i experience and am exposed to. i have blindspots and may be missing another country in another part of the world that is doing a better job to represent the dignity of all people everywhere. further, mexico, as with all coagulations of power, is vulnerable to what has happened to every state everywhere eventually: a total capitulation of all values in order to please the holders of power
            3. there have existed non-state entities whose histories were largely wiped out by colonial powers. these precolonial groups histories still exist in the oral record and their ways of living are often the direct target of genocidal regimes. of particular interest to me are pre-colonial cambodia, puerto rico, ireland, hawai’i, and north america, however these stories of how idigenous people lived before the opressors came are hidden deep within many people’s cultural identities across the globe