zeezee @ zeezee @slrpnk.net Posts 2Comments 81Joined 4 mo. ago
You mean the ban defined by the International* (Norwegian) Holocaust Remembrance Alliance? The IHRA that defended Norway's commemoration of the nazi Knut Hamsun? The same IHRA that defines antisemitism as "Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis."?
Though I'm guessing you mean specifically "Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor."
Which I thought I made pretty clear with the parallel between apartheid South Africa and apartheid Israel - just as I believe the colonial state of the US has no right to exist - so I believe that the colonial state of Israel has no right to exist either.
So when I hear people chant "From the river to the sea" - I (and solidarity scholars) don't see that as a call to violence against Jewish people - but as a reclamation of a slogan originally conjured up by Zionists for the equal rights of everyone in the Levant independent of their religion.
Right so you would have upheld and supported the 1982 Internal Security Acts in apartheid South Africa that outlawed chants like Mayibuye iAfrika because you "respect the law"
Thanks for telling on yourself.
*France is twice the population of California and 1.5 times the landmass
mfs in this thread arguing misgendering doesn't matter while assuming everyone on the internet is a man
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As ridiculous as the leaked group chat shit is - their assessment of the EU benefiting from US navy power was on point.
Currently EU officials can decry the Trump admin as the literal devil, but they're awfully quiet when the same cabinet uses US might to attack Yemen to restore "freedom of navigation" through the Red Sea. Their politics of death and destruction are only an issue when their enemies don't align..
This^ - as @ToxicWaste@lemm.ee noted - women and men are good at different things so I don't see why we can't require mixed gender teams with equal representation for pretty much all sports.
And if somebody cries "fOrCeD dIvErSiTy!!" then you never really cared about women's participation in sports anyways.
I mean it sure would do more than pretending it's not happening - but I get it - most Germans preferred to pretend they couldn't smell the smoke either.
And again you don't even have to risk your own safety by protesting - you could at least join a local community organizing group to help people most affected.
I'm sure you may think one person can't make a difference but I can guarantee that even a single person more that's helping out with mutual aid would be met with appreciation anywhere. Still good on you for financing charities - that is usually the very first step.
Also this isn't a sprint - it's a marathon - expecting protests now to have any immediate impact is just setting you up for failure - these fights have been fought for generations - so lock in and get ready to resist not just these 4 but the next 40 years.
And sorry if this feels overwhelming and you don't think you have the capacity - but even doing 1 day of volunteering a month is a good starting point.
Huh, US industrialists were literally given carte blanche to support Hitler's rise to power and it's happening again with Muskrat bolstering far right parties across Europe.
Hell, Hitler admired the US for the way they "dealt" with the indigenous population of Turtle Island
Why try to do anything so this doesn't happen when it's easier to dig your head in the sand 🙃
Doesn't providing nuance counter the homogeneity? Also what's the alternative? Algorithmically promotes content? But those create even more of an echo chamber as you only see what the algo thinks you'll personally engage with.
I guess meeting in person might be better - but even then your neighborhood is probably rather classist so idk how much you'd end up not in an echo chamber either :/
How come it's always nazi apologists with these takes..
Ok big brain - who's gonna provide those social benefits in a country with an aging population and no immigration?
This sounds like the whole Brexit thing where folk voted to keep immigrants out and were then shocked when social services went even more to shit when they realized half of NHS staff were foreigners...
If you were arguing to solve global inequality and climate change by dismantling western imperialism and by radically reducing their material consumption so that people didn't need to emigrate - then we would agree - but your current stance just sounds like social security for me but not for thee..
You're equating Cambridge Analytica's targeted psychological manipulation based on secretly harvested personal data with ordinary citizens debating each other. Do you really see no difference between billion-dollar campaigns using Al to exploit psychological vulnerabilities and regular people discussing politics? Who exactly is doing the 'convincing' in your version of democracy?
So you're acknowledging that it's a problem of wealth extraction but your proposed solution is for left wing parties to adopt a more anti-immigration stance instead of resolving the issue of inequality?
Right wing parties platform on isolationist policies (Brexit) while massively boosting globalization (how there's now more migration post-Brexit than pre) and using migrants as a scapegoat for people's economic issues.
Pinning the issue of globalization on migrants is like putting the blame on the exploited for the crimes of the exploiters.
Globalization isn't bad because it allows people to resettle, escape political and environmental instability in their own countries - but because neoliberal interests specifically funnel away wealth from their local lower classes and destabilize poorer foreign nations to provide cheap labour for their businesses at home.
So instead of saying how great Denmark is for adopting "zero asylum" policies why not spend your energy advocating for wealth redistribution on a global scale? I agree, ideally people wouldn't need to migrate to richer counties - but I don't see the same "anti-globalist" parties advocating for paying reparations or providing zero debt aid to poorer nations instead either.
Denmark's approach seems to prioritize protecting their domestic welfare system rather than addressing the global systems that create inequality. They've maintained many of the same neoliberal international policies while building higher walls around their own social safety net - exemplifying a "freedom for me, but not for thee" approach.
Which leads to the real crux of the issue - can a truly progressive approach stop at national borders, or does it require addressing the international systems that create inequality and drive migration in the first place?
Wait, you're both saying people voted for Brexit out of their own free will but also that advertising doesn't persuade people? How do you explain Cambridge Analytica literally influencing millions of people to vote for Brexit? (a vote won by 2% margin btw) - like why would the right-wing establishment pay for ads if not to sway public opinion?
Do you really think neoliberals spent millions to inform people why Brexit is good for them actually because that was factual information people couldn't have found otherwise?
The issue here is decades of neglecting the wellbeing of citizens
Yes? But what does this have to do with immigration? Do you genuinely believe that immigrants are what's causing the decay of citizen wellbeing and not as you say "neoliberal governments grounding low and middle class workers into dust"?
You see the issue but you side with the neoliberals on their preferred solution?
the app is called AltTab..
This is peak neo-fascist dystopia and it reveals the true nature of anti-immigration policy of humiliation and alienation.
The human rights and dignity violations, be it done with chains and cameras or with campaigns and administrative hearings - share the same hateful roots.
Don't let this shift the overton window such that "civil immigration measures" become acceptable - push back on it now before it becomes the new normal.