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Bill Makes Gaza Genocide Protests Illegal (apnews.com)

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hr-6090 will make criticizing isreal illegal including the protests. it’s already passed the the house and biden has signaled his support for it. i wonder why this isn’t on lemmy already since it’s been a thing for a month so far.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is pretty interesting. This topic was discussed ad nauseum when it happened, there's even a cross post that's over a month old with 280 upvotes and 50 comments.

But on my feed post is showing as less than an hour old, and appears in at least 3 other communities for me.

Also the headline of the actual article is:

House passes bill to expand definition of antisemitism amid growing campus protests over Gaza war

Nowhere in the article does it mention making "Gaza genocide protests illegal". I think misrepresenting the contents of the article and changing the headline could very well explain why the posts was removed from another community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

These related?

Removed:

Available:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They are not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Suspected a little thanks

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

i wonder why this isn’t on lemmy already since it’s been a thing for a month so far.

It was, a month ago.

[+] [email protected] -23 points 3 months ago (4 children)

i wonder why this isn’t on lemmy

Because, a significant portion of lemmy are fascist apologists. They are fine with fascism as policy as long it comes with the support of their team.

In a sane world this would never get past the supreme court. Its a clear violation of the first amendment and no Democrat should have ever voted for it. We don't live in a sane world.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

What

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

i'm sorry to hear that; part of me was hoping that the lemmyverse was better, but the speed at which a sister post was comment deflected and then removed within 30 seconds of posting it makes me think you're right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You can scroll through my comment history. I am pretty damn socialist leaning and have not had many to any issues here with legitimatly fascist ideology. The upvotes on some of my comments indicate there is a good amount of active users who agree with that certain leftist ideology.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Here's the thing, you can't sit idle and let the fascists or their apologists take the space.

Live isn't easy, its pure competition, all of the time. If you and I don't have a conversation about this bill, how its in direct opposition to like, everything that the left should stand for, and how it impacts the jewish diaspora, then it just doesn't happen.

Lemmings like @[email protected] are scared. They are scared shitless, and it shows every step of the way. Their candidate is floundering. They can't imagine an alternative. They can't see a way out of the corner they've painted themselves into and they're lashing out in every direction possible, even if that means ushering fascism in under a blue banner.

You and I can make a difference.

We can show people that there is a third way, a way in which we can have a dialogue, a conversation that shows that a third way is possible.

Whats most important is that we not give up the space. This is the biggest mis-step we could make. What we should not do is cede the ground. We should keep talking. We should point out how this fascist bill, that Democrats overwhelmingly supported, hurts jews across the nation and across the world, and is a direct encroachment of fascism.

You and I can make the difference.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

And which candidate is "my" candidate? Plus I thought you don't have conversations with fascists and since everyone not a socialist is fascist there are no conversations left to have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

a sister post

Do you mean your repost of the same article to the same community at about the same time, which was removed for being a repost? That’s what we do to reposts regardless of content.

Just a cursory search shows that it’s been talked about:
https://lemmy.ml/search?type=Posts&sort=TopThreeMonths&q=antisemitism+bill

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Citation needed