Dbzer0 civility rules aim to protect marginalized people from harassment. feddit.org’s are being deployed to protect Zionism from criticism while tone-policing Palestinians and their allies. These aren’t the same thing just because they both use the word ‘civility.’
feddit isn’t exactly enforcing civility neutrally. They’re silencing anti-Zionism while treating Zionist positions as the default that deserves civil engagement. That’s a political choice with the fig leaf of ‘just following orders the law’, hardly ‘basic logic’. But thanks for explaining to a silly girl like me silly-liberator
luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 week ago
Aside from the fact that following the law should be an understandable concession to wanting your instance to continue existing:
I don’t think I’ve seen any Anti-Palestine sentiment there. I’m also pretty sure most of us are on the same page about Zionism. This dispute is about the way that we express it, which is being framed as defending it and compared to actively perpetrating genocide.
There is a significant difference between following laws about hatespeech and following orders to actually murder people. Erasing all nuance doesn’t help the actual discourse about what we all agree is systematic genocide against the Palestinian people.