PeterMar 19
a lot of the tankie anti-colonialist guys are just racists.
Show threadbrainwashed by lentilsMar 19

@peter from that image, i don't get it?

when a jew is offended at someone yelling »free palestine,« and someone replies that they don't find it offensive when »free palestine« is yelled, then that's tankie racism, or what?

Show threadPeterMar 19
@pelle yelling "free Palestine" at someone because they are Jewish is anti-Semitic, and refusing to understand that is the racist part.
Show threadbrainwashed by lentilsMar 19

@peter
if you see that as the racist part, then i non-tankieously disagree, and i'd suggest this piece by mohammed el-kurd as a counter argument as to why,
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/09/jewish-settlers-stole-my-house-its-not-my-fault-theyre-jewish/

»Palestinians are told the words we use dwarf the decades of violence enacted against us by the self-proclaimed Jewish State. A drone is one thing, but a trope—a trope is unacceptable.«

Jewish settlers stole my house. It’s not my fault they’re Jewish.

Palestinians are told the words we use dwarf the decades of violence enacted against us by the self-proclaimed Jewish State. A drone is one thing, but a trope—a trope is unacceptable. No more.

Mondoweiss
Show threadPeterMar 19
@pelle sorry, i want to get this straight, you think it's totally fine to go up to a random Jewish person in New York City or Paris and yell "free Palestine" because they are wearing a kippah?
Show threadbrainwashed by lentilsMar 19

@peter
if you are genuinely against the zionist occupation and genocide, how can you even hear »free palestine« as an insult?

an anti-racist response could be to yell »free palestine« in return — not to go to social media with: »i'm not racist, but ...«

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@pelle @peter do you do this to other ethnic groups? just see them existing and automatically assume they must support whatever their people’s fascist element is and yell at them about it?
Mar 19 at 12:54pmWeb
Show threadbrainwashed by lentilsMar 19

@winter @peter
perhaps that someone yelling »free palestine« was hoping to greet a fellow antizionist? however, given how he ranted about it on social media, it's pretty clear he is not!

when people yell »free palestine« towards me, i simply yell »free palestine« back, rather than assume that they assume that i'm a fascist. #mentalgymnastics #selfvictimization

Show threadWomen Interface Network  Mar 19
@pelle @peter not answering my question #hashtags
Show threadPeter6d ago
@[email protected] @winter it's the same as reflexively demanding all Muslims denounce al Qaeda just because they are Muslim. demanding a whole ethnicity answer for something some members of that ethnicity are doing is bigotry.
Show threadbrainwashed by lentils6d ago
@peter @winter
despite »free palestine« not exactly meaning »do you condemn IDF?«, the latter would still have been reasonable to ask of this upset rabbi as he appears to be an actual supporter of the jewish al qaeda equivalent (although he leans slightly against additional weaponized starvation as long as the palestineans can get out of gaza).