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If you go over to astroturfed reddit, there is no shortage of topvoted comments cheering the IDF for bombing children by saying "they're all hamas."
The same rhetoric Hamas probably used to justify killing Israeli civilians. But it's okay if Israel does it, because you know.
Reddit is scary after this whole thing started. You have people calling for outright genocide being upvoted to the sky. People saying the old disproven zionist claims (Palestinians are not native to Palestine, etc) are getting extreme support too.
I surely hope this is bot propaganda because, if not, we're about to witness one of the biggest crimes against humanity.
This just contributed for me to steer ever more towards Lemmy where the opinions are more...human.
Opinions are more human because they're mostly posted by actual humans. Reddit and that clowfiesta previously known as twitter are clogged by astroturf.
If lemmy ever gets really big, no doubt we'll see the same here unfortunately.
Internet entropy
So I would assume some of the people saying Palestinians aren’t native are in the americas. So does that mean all black peoples have to go to Africa and all white people Europe? Or do you go way back and all humans have to go to Africa cause that is where we originated as a species from?
I suspect that's brought up as a counter to someone portraying Jews as foreign invaders not native to the region. (At least not in recent history.) Making a similar claim about Palestinians muddies the water regarding whose ancient homeland it is.
Can we turn Africa, the entire continent, into one mega city? And then the rest of the planet gets to relax.
We could call it mega city one!
I'll be honest I haven't been on reddit much aside from a couple communities since the whole shutdown, but it's not that surprising tbh. Reddit is a huge target for astroturfing, they don't have good protections against it, and Israel invests A LOT into stuff like that.
I also feel like anecdotally I've always felt like reddit was very pro-israel. I've been educated about many things because of reddit, but Palestine wasn't one of them. (when I say educated about I don't just mean reading comments, I actually do go to effort to read books etc., but often Reddit was a source of prompting for me to realize I needed to educate myself on something)
But yeah, it's so refreshing using Lemmy. Really reminds me of when I started using Reddit, but more mature.
Israel doesn't realize they're feeding right into Hamas's propaganda
Or they do, which is even more evil
They do.
"God's chosen people", playing God.