I wonder why no other country needs this kind of affirmation? 🤔🤔🤔 hmmmmmmm what a mystery

They have a “no go” zone in the city where I live. I went there. It is nice. The people are poor by Swedish standards but if you’re not from here you would not bat an eye. The only way you believe this is if you have never been to Sweden, or at least not a “no go” zone and/or you get all your news from racist right wing fuckwits who desperately try to convince you that Arabs are destroying European society.

OP Sweden is nice, even Stockholm and Gothenburg, just a bit expensive

Obviously, much like South Africa, the human rights council is just another legal arm of Hamas. They are an incredibly powerful and well connected organisation with widespread support in major institutions, humanitarian organizations, the UN and grassroots support across the world. How did they achieve this? 🤷‍♂️ but obviously if we acknowledge that this is an insane conspiracy theory we would have to admit all of crimes that Israel is doing and we can’t have that now can we

So based on this logic, some gay people treat straight people like a danger to their safety, and this isn’t nice and doesn’t make me feel comfortable. Sometimes I want a drink away from this judgment. So can I start a straight bar where gay people are not welcome? Or would that be awful and homophobic?

I know the baseline situations are not the same, there is obviously still prejudice. But the logic still applies. Likewise, should we have black bars with no white people allowed?

Also I wonder what type of homophobe would go to a gay bar? Would be an odd move unless you intended to harm/abuse people, and if that was the case wouldn’t you just lie and say you were gay to get in? Not like you’re going to make them kiss someone to get through the door.

This is so fucking dumb. I don’t care, it doesn’t make what Biden is doing any better. This is not the voting booth

Yes but bad man is worse so it’s all ok, nothing to see here

He’s being consistently ignored about Rafah and then he goes for the carrot? I’m sure giving him what he wants will really help get Netanyahu out.

What he’s doing is public hand wringing, private support. If anything actually changes I’ll happily change my mind. I’d love to see it. But no, we get more dead kids.

Thanks Biden! Got to help Israel kill those kids. It’s very important work

I was born in the UK but with a West Indian and an actual Indian grandparent on one side. Lived there my entire life up until relatively recently. There were still people who would consider me not British. When people either in the UK or where I live now ask where I’m from and I tell them I’m British, there are many people who say “but where are you really from?”

But it doesn’t mean anything if I say I’m Jamaican, or Indian, because one I’ve been to for some odd trips as a kid and the other I only transferred through an airport. Yeah my DNA shows that, but my entire life has basically minimal connection to either of those places and a continuous connection to Britain.

I got the accent and the passport, but I didn’t get the skin colour. So these people will always exist who want to make it seem like I’m not “really” British. But that is on them, not me. I am British, whether they like it or not.

This is really a long winded way of saying: there will always be some people who consider you not truly British. Fuck them. They are idiots that have at best shackled themselves to some outdated view of what it means to be “British” and at worst want to shutter the whole country off to anyone who doesn’t look or speak like them and pull us all back to the stone age.

I think if you speak to people you are close with about this they would consider you British. If you speak with Baz down at the Red Lion he’ll ask you for a pierogi and then fall asleep in his own vomit after a few too many pints of carling. I think Baz is much less important than all of the real people in your life and most of all, the way you view yourself.

Not at all! I’m not even sure what you mean about the moderation.

Honestly I just know there are such people on Lemmy and their explanation for stuff like this is interesting to me. I don’t even want them to be banned in general, I can just downvote and move on.

I got an answer, though. So far “it’s crazy to think Israel would do that on purpose, there are many possible explanations” and yet the facts still stand and no adequate explanation of the facts seems like it could be acceptable

Any Zionists/supporters of Israel please feel free to explain how this is in any way acceptable

Fair enough. It is being used more colloquially in this case, you’re right. I retract the accusation of fascism and substitute “an unjust authoritarian crackdown on the right to freedom of speech and expression, undermining the very tenets of democratic society. A national embarrassment.”

So punishing free speech and protest is not fascist provided that they are “only” in jail for a couple of days? Seriously?

Obviously cracking down on protests doesn’t mean it’s 1930s Germany but it’s part of the same playbook, surely?

As always

I said the legacy of this will long outlast any positive action Biden has taken. Yeah people will probably vote on domestic issues (although if even a few percent don’t want to vote for someone aiding a genocide it is getting pretty tight for Biden), but this recent inflation or whatever will be a distant memory in a few years, while the genocide will not. The court case alone will take years to finish up.

Also under the genocide convention, it is also a crime to be complicit in genocide. So what happens if (ie probably when) the court rules in favour of South Africa? Biden is in the shit. Then he has to answer for HIS actions, as the primary backer of Israel. Not a good look.

I’m not saying “this is going to cost Biden the election,” which it seems you were responding to (even though maybe it will). I am saying “people will remember Biden as the guy who gave the bombs that they dropped on the innocent children and not that guy who had decent economic policy.”

If I was president this would bother me but maybe Biden doesn’t care ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Multiple State Department officials who have worked on Israeli relations said that Blinken’s inaction has undermined Biden’s public criticism, sending a message to the Israelis that the administration was not willing to take serious steps.

Public criticism, private support. The administration is complicit, and this legacy of aiding genocide will long outlast any positive action Biden has taken thus far

If only they could have used their vote to express this sentiment in some way

At this point I feel like they’re just gaslighting everyone for the fun of it. Nobody’s memory is that short.

He needs a health bar: Oscar, devourer of treats

I think r/InternationalNews was mainly created as a place to discuss issues free from the rampant Zionism of r/WorldNews.

Happy to have people on Lemmy but I have to say, Lemmy as a whole seems way more anti-Israel than reddit right now. Although to be fair outside of r/WorldNews and a few other places, the general mood does seem to be shifting away from Israel pretty hard.

For me this is nice to see, because fuck Israel right to hell, but you’ll certainly see the same type of content here. I like that if people don’t like it they can make their own community or even an instance, and also that people are generally more free to disagree here (partially due to lax moderation I guess). You should have never been banned for that comment by the sound of it, absolutely stupid.