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• mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Guessing you’re German? It is used in place of the Palestinian flag, because it has the same colors. Since Germany is terrified of being labeled antisemitic, (and Israel immediately jumps to “you’re an antisemite” whenever anyone disagrees with them,) the German government has their tongue all the way up Israel’s asshole. So the German government labeled it antisemitic, (and started trying to propagandize their population to believe so as well, by equating it with Nazis) because they don’t want any Germans making headlines by using the emoji to support Palestine.

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think she said Swiss in another post? There’s a lot of cultural cross-pollination

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    • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      they* but no, I’m ukrainian, it took off as a meme a while ago but not everyone is aware it started in nazi groupchats and sometimes gets used as a dogwhistle, so I’m wary

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      • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Oh, I got mixed up in the comment chain, I was talking about OP

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    • loics2@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s not seen as a nazi symbol in Switzerland (at least in the french-speking part). But off course, the right wing labels everything pro-Palestine as antisemitic, like pretty much everywhere I guess

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  • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In America watermelons are associated with racist stereotypes about black people

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  • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nope, just tired of seeing it get associated with the word “based”, bc I know who came up with that association. I think you can sorta deduce my country from that lol

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s based!

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      • real_squids@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Just don’t combine that with watermelons lol or I’ll assume you’re cool with nazis (or simply unaware). Peep the other comment, I explained it briefly

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• moonshadow@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are you from Germany by chance? Been adopted as a symbol of Palestinian resistance and therefore labelled anti-“semetic” by certain governments

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