Twitch says ‘Zionist’ can be a punishable slur.
www.theverge.com
After calls for Twitch to address antisemitism on the platform, the site’s hateful conduct policy now includes “Zionist” as a potential slur. Twitch specifies this is conditional: you’re allowed to discuss the political movement of that name, but not “attack or demean another individual or group of people on the basis of their background or religious belief.”
  • AidsKitty@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I really don’t like the censorship of speech from either side. People have a right to choose their own words and suffer the consequences for the words they choose.

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    3 days ago

    They already banned a swathe of pro-palestinian political streamers in the run up to the US election, so this is likely retroactive reasoning.

  • PedroG14@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Okay, now streamers can get more creative when refering to a zionist. I think that ‘bibi’s removed’ is a good term.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    They probably don’t like zionazi either. Neither this nor zionist is a code word for Jew. The entire political class, the great majority being Christian, and their donors are zionist, because going with the flow of AIPAC is path to get your candidates to also serve your oligarchist or Christofascist protections.

    Netanyahuists or likudists or Mossadists or Epsteinists ok?

    BTW, Chuck Shumer is going to allow a vote in Senate over this “criticism of zionism is anti semitic” law in US. Reddit also supports mods who recomend permabans over criticism of zionism already.

  • lorty@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    Waiting for the free-speech absolutists to boycott twitch for this (they won’t)

    • Crikeste@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      One of the orchestrators of this whole thing, Destiny, defends child porn and the use of slurs.

      Ironic is putting it lightly.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    “How dare you use a word that means ‘genocidal, imperialist, apartheid, ethnostate’ in a way that explicitly means ‘genocidal, imperialist, apartheid, ethnostate’!” - Twitch, active supporters and enablers of genocidal, imperialist, apartheid ethnostates.

  • ghurab@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    sooo twitch declares the Zionist movement offensive? and should only discussed in sn academic sense? /s

    wow twitch, very brave!!

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    4 days ago

    Once genz matures, public opinion on Israel will shift. I hope Israel enters the “and find out” stage.

    Fuck 'em, disgusting parasites leeching on US might to commit a genocide. Americans will pay for this too…

    next 9/11: why would anybody do this to us 🤡

    sad reality many of us did not sign up to fund the genocide but AIPAC was able to infiltrated state and corpos from within while avoiding foreign agent registration.

    our spooks are fucking useless…

  • wpb@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    The same way I don’t think we should capitulate to framing “cracker” as a slur, or to framing “black lives matter” as a racist thing to say, I don’t think we should capitulate to framing things like “from the river to the sea” or “zionist” as antisemitic.

    But, as a thought experiment, let’s indulge in this doublespeak trash. What is a good alternative? So far I’ve got:

    • Israeli colonizers
    • Jewish supremacists
    • genocidal sacks of shit
    • Israeli apartheidists
    • Isreal expansionists
    • Israeli warmongerers
    • people in favor of the genocide and apartheid committed by Israel (in full, every time you need to say zionist)
    • modern day nazis
    • zionazis (technically not zionist!)

    So all of this liberal crybaby nomenclature trash aside, I actually do think “zionist” is in itself a fairly useless term for the Israeli apartheid question (as Norman Finkelstein and Judith Butler do too). While one faction of zionism pursued the nakba and massacres from fairly early on, and while this faction has been quite successful, there are other notions of zionism which do not entail murdering children or colonizing a country. When Netanyahu and Chomsky can both legitimately refer to themselves as zionists, I think it’s clear that zionism is too broad a term to be useful in the current ongoing genocide and the ethnic cleansing that has been going on for the better part of a century.

  • OneMeaningManyNames@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Is this why we should not delegate the control of hate speech to the state, because it will always blow up in our faces?

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      Jewish Supremacism was the instigating lobby for such laws. They wanted to enable other “supremacist liberal-themed” movements to take advantage, and hopefully ally, with Zionism. Me too, at the height of the cultural wars, essentially was representing that women can never lie.

      An inherent problem with equality, awareness for oppressed groups, advocacy is that the advocacy never stops at equality. The ADL is canonical example of supremacist overreach.

      • OneMeaningManyNames@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I am not subscribing to this bullshit, and I am sad my comment enabled you to spew it out. “Me too” was a valid and necessary movement to combat sexual assaults that were institutionalized in many industries and protected by law enforcement and judicial authorities. Many prominent figures went rightfully to jail for sex crimes, and the proportion of women lying about it is rather small to make a political argument off it. Tracing back “liberal-themed supremacy movements” to Jewish supremacism sounds to me quite close to Nazi conspiracy theory, to take any of this seriously. I am sorry this reached my feed, and I can’t wait to engage the likes of you in combat.

        • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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          3 days ago

          sorry to be triggering, but there is a link between zionists using “Jews have a history of oppression” linking to “everything a zionist says is true” is a related tactic to “empowerment advocacy” doesn’t stop after equality achieved. Hate crime legislation was sponsored by zionists, but they welcomed allies into broadening protections. Flipping out over the comment is a supremacist tactic.