• Duxon@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Is it just me or is this community heavily biased? I wonder if this pro-Hamas stance is really present on Lemmy or if there’s some bot activity going on.

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      1 year ago

      If you look outside the US or European MSM, you’ll find the world is repulsed by Israel’s mass murder of civilians.

    • mightyfoolish@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s more like people especially from the Germanic and English world get surprised that not everyone is rooting for Palestine to get wiped off the map.

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      1 year ago

      Maybe it would be better if they were getting paid. I’m pretty sure the sad truth is they are spreading all this propaganda because they genuinely believe it.

    • LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Lemmy is mostly lefties despite a few glaring counter examples.

      Theres a lot of huffing gas going on on the left with near zero historical context or on-the-ground understanding. People still repeat “River t0 the Sea” as if it’s not a literal call to genocide for militant nationalists. Instead they post the decolonization blog. Meanwhile even Palestinian Authority reps and members of the negotiating team for the last n peace deals are publishing opinion pieces that the phrase is intrinsically a call to violent genocide and the Palestinian supporters really need to check who they are getting their “facts” from. It’s basically on siding with a terrorist org but because some people think there is a noble goal beneath it that makes it OK to chant.

      There’s also a lot of people too young to remember how the West and East conducts sieges in dense urban areas. It’s not good or pretty to look at.

      Also like most people outside of the region don’t seem to get that Palestinians and Israelis are both more or less the same ethnicity (Semitic though the term has fallen out of usage outside of describing the language roots of Arab and Hebrew and like half a dozen other languages) and look the same. There isn’t a skin color component. That’s projection from Americans/Westerners who mostly see Ashkenazi jews who tend to avoid light for various reasons and are pretty pale. Once they are back in the middle east everyone turns a shade of olive/brown and you couldn’t pick a jew or an Arab out of a lineup if they didn’t have religious clothing on to make it easier.