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https://www.reddit.com/r/Palestinian_Violence/comments/1cgy0xm/propalestinian_jewish_women_are_too_ugly_to_be/She needs to be named and shamed.
getagrip_already
(15,134 posts)elleng
(131,658 posts)Bad Thoughts
(2,542 posts)Coventina
(27,243 posts)I have no words.....
Ace Rothstein
(3,203 posts)ExciteBike66
(2,419 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,521 posts)Are you really doing a "not all" defense here?
SMDH....
Ace Rothstein
(3,203 posts)Maybe they should do a better job of policing the bad actors.
angrychair
(8,774 posts)It appears you are saying anyone that anyone that supports Gaza not being bombed into oblivion, supports rape? As a rape survivor I find that incredibly offensive
Ace Rothstein
(3,203 posts)But when I see a bunch of protestors in this situation and they don't chase that woman off then I assume they support her message.
angrychair
(8,774 posts)If no one called it out I doubt 99% of people would even know it existed.
Also it's a image, a post, a statement of some kind, being posted with zero context. Meaning you have no idea if that person is actually part of a people genuinely protesting or just chaos agents stirring up trouble on the Internet. Hell, for all we know know it could be an AI generated image or even sound bite.
Absolutely not saying it's not a horrible comment but to imply because I don't want innocent women and children to be bombed into oblivion that makes me somehow the Internet police of every damn comment any 12 yr old makes in the Internet is ridiculous
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Mossfern
(2,619 posts)Except I'm Jewish.
That is NOT what anyone is saying!
I can't see how you see it that way.
Please explain.
angrychair
(8,774 posts)Here, including the person I was responding too stated that unless you are policing them you, by implication, must agree with them.
It's not my job to "police" every post by a random on the Internet.
Just because I'm not doing that doesn't mean I agree with them.
Reacting to every post on the Internet I don't agree with is a fruitless effort and completely pointless.
That doesn't mean I condone it or agree with them sure as hell doesn't mean I think rape is ok.
Mossfern
(2,619 posts)Did you speak against the comment?
I don't think anyone here has the power to police random comments on the internet, but they can speak against comments like that.
I'll go back and re-read the thread.
On edit: You did say that you would not deny that it's a horrible comment, but didn't speak out against the comment yourself.
BTW, just to be clear about what rape is...It's not about sex, it's about using sex as a tool for power, humiliation and control.
I saw the OP but didn't see the comment itself and don't care. I'm not engaging in a back and forth about who is more is more outraged by random Reddit posts. Maybe I'm a little more jaded that some but I'm just not going to post a response to every outrageous comment someone shares from the Internet. That is literally the point of why people do that is to specifically stir up shit, cause trouble and get views and shares on their posts. The more views a post gets the more visible it is on the site and the more attention it gets.
At least on most social media platforms, including this one, the more a post is ignored the faster it fades from view to never be seen again.
Also, I know what rape is: I was repeatedly raped by a babysitter at 7 and they were in their 20s and repeatedly raped by a neighbor (I was 10, they were 17). Completely independent of each other. I don't need anyone to explain how it works. I lived it.
Mossfern
(2,619 posts)If you saw the OP and made other comments, why didn't you comment on what the OP was presenting? It was exposing a despicable antisemitic remark. It has nothing to do with Gaza.
angrychair
(8,774 posts)I'm commenting on people making sweeping generalizations and proving the point that just because I don't address every single OP about how awful a comment on Reddit (or Facebook or wherever) I still think it's horrible and gross.
Trolls saying horrible shit on the Internet is not noteworthy.
Democrats that think just because a person doesn't call out every asshole on the Internet they must agree with them is much more concerning.
Demsrule86
(68,959 posts)if she is not. Disgusting and despicable.
Coventina
(27,243 posts)sir pball
(4,770 posts)
with one Nazi, you have a table of ten Nazis.
Protests are fine, this shit ain't. Police yourselves.
angrychair
(8,774 posts)Support an end to the bombing and IDF being held accountable for any war crimes they committed, I am, by extension, also responsible for every single thing said anywhere in the world, on any platform?
I mean reddit is rather obscure platform but I'm responsible for "policing" every single post made there?
TheProle
(2,226 posts)heh
angrychair
(8,774 posts)I've been in the computer industry for over 30+ yrs and I just heard about about 4 yrs ago.
Go ask a rando on the street if they know what Reddit is and I would suspect that 4 out of every 5 would have no idea what it is.
That being said you response does nothing to answer the point I was actually making
TheProle
(2,226 posts)You were attempting to minimize the outrage with the "one pic on an obscure site" bs.
So to amend my numbers upthread to reflect only US:
Reddit has 73.1~ 35m million daily active users. Reddit has 267.5 ~131 million weekly active users.
It's definitely relevant to American political culture and just went public last month.
FWIW, I've been in tech for 25 years and have known about Reddit since 2006, so it's 50/50 with our sample size of 2 old techies.
angrychair
(8,774 posts)You know the concept of "policing" a random post on a random platform is the equivalent of trying to bail water out of a sinking cruise liner with a Dixie cup. It's insane. Which is my point.
I'm no more policing what some rando post on Reddit than I do here. I'm here on DU every single day but I suspect I only see 10% of the post on here on any given day.
TheProle
(2,226 posts)The only reason we are having this exchange is that you called the 18th most visited site on the internet "obscure."
It's okay; you made a rhetorical blunder. It happens.
kcr
(15,334 posts)about "being in the computer industry" and not knowing what Reddit is. Yikes.
angrychair
(8,774 posts)To do with my work or personal life or with any of the companies I've worked for. I have not ever worked with a company that had any presence on Reddit.
Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and even Slack but never Reddit.
yardwork
(61,857 posts)Really?
sir pball
(4,770 posts)If you're at an event, be it a dinner party or a protest, that turns anti-Semitic, be it Nazis or Hamas supporters (not that most protestors are terror sympathizers), and you don't leave immediately, regardless of your beliefs you are also an anti-Semite. It has nothing to do with general ideology but rather immediate circumstances and actions.
In Too Deep
(60 posts)I don't understand how hard it is to take accountability for your own actions. If you're out there attending these mass-protests, where speakers are chanting, "from the river to the sea" and "burn Tel Aviv to the ground", you're making yourself complicit by association. If you're fine insulating yourself with those types of actors, it's only logical to believe you agree with them.
It's not about opposing Israel's actions. It's about the many who continue to attend these rallies despite the overwhelming antisemitism - whether UCLA students refusing to let a Jewish student pass through, or the blatant chants about Israel not existing or Khymani James, who led the Columbia encampments, saying Zionists should be killed.
In 2002 and early 2003, I attended some Iraq War protests. I didn't know much about who had organized them at first but eventually I found out that the people behind the protests were Lyndon LaRouche supporters and they were using the protests to peddle a lot of bigotry. The second I realized these protests were associated with LaRouche, I stopped going. I didn't want to associate with those people. I took accountability.
It didn't mean I wasn't against the war anymore - it just I was not going to aid and sympathize with organizers who were bigots.
If you associate with antisemites, don't be surprised if you're called an antisemite.
Mossfern
(2,619 posts)What a horrible thing to say.
Did she post a photo of herself?
Jedi Guy
(3,290 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,090 posts)sheshe2
(84,173 posts)Especially coming from a woman. I have no words left.
Fiendish Thingy
(15,741 posts)Guilt by association?
TheProle
(2,226 posts)Coventina
(27,243 posts)JI7
(89,312 posts)we saw protestors and organizers speak against violence and even many clips of them stopping those who were getting violent and hateful.
We aren't seeing that now. We see defense of the shit behavior.
Mossfern
(2,619 posts)right?
Honestly, I was around to protest in the 60's and 70's and crap like this never was part of the rhetoric then. Maybe calling cops "pigs" but nothing so hateful as this.
How does that comment help her cause?
She's merely using the protests as a vehicle of hate.
Demsrule86
(68,959 posts)called baby-killers, and sneered out...beat up in bars. I remember being in college in the 80's and there was a Vietnam vet...there was a loud noise. He dived under his chair. The kids thought that was hilarious. My Dad and Mom were Navy...I was truly sickened.
Mossfern
(2,619 posts)I lived in NYC. It was my friends and family that were drafted, we felt great sympathy for them. But then again there were the protesters back then that walked around carrying Mao's Little Red Book.
They were the fringe. Most of the anti-war people I knew also had friends and family that had been drafted.
Yes, soldiers in all wars can suffer from PTSD. My uncle came back from the Pacific Rim (WWII) with "Shell Shock." Same thing.
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Takket
(21,760 posts)job of it.
Demsrule86
(68,959 posts)needed. These protests do nothing to further that goal. A bunch of kids are going to get kicked out of school. Those who took hostages are likely to be charged with kidnapping. Some will be charged with other crimes. They have essentially ruined their lives and for what...a big nothing. They are not helping the situation.
Omnipresent
(5,759 posts)That woman seems to be blind with rage.
blm
(113,163 posts)of all nations, of all conditions, with her inhumane comment.
BlueTsunami2018
(3,524 posts)This is what kills me about people supporting these Hamas loving jerk offs. Remember Charlottesville? If you are on the same side as these antisemite pieces of shit, the people chanting Death to America and Genocide Joe you are them. There are no good people mixed in with that crowd when they allow this kind of thing to go on. If you arent forcefully removing them and disassociating with them, you are them.
You cant be mad at people who mix with Nazis at a white supremacist rally and say theyre all the same and pick and choose the allegedly good people who mix with these River to the sea assholes.
I dont make the rules but those are the rules.
Lunabell
(6,152 posts)Disgusting.
irisblue
(33,097 posts)PCIntern
(25,702 posts)And millions of others
iemanja
(53,137 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,158 posts)Cha
(298,354 posts)JohnSJ
(92,605 posts)sarisataka
(19,016 posts)just direct them to this
Think. Again.
(9,150 posts)...provocateur nonsense from one side or the other to stir up the masses on one side or the other.
Apparently it's very effective.
sarisataka
(19,016 posts)Just think what could have happened if they allowed him to go to class
Think. Again.
(9,150 posts)...any unnamed troublemakers conveniently filmed and posted rather than having authorities called on them could well be provocateurs, agitators, or just plain nutjobs attracted to all the attention around these protests.
sarisataka
(19,016 posts)In short, a Jewish student, he shows his ID to a campus security guard who confirms it, wants to enter campus to go to his class. protesters stand shoulder to shoulder to block him. As he tries to slide through or around, more protesters join them to block his entry.
The excuse every antisemitic action is caused by provocateurs or paid agents is getting pretty thin.
Think. Again.
(9,150 posts)sarisataka
(19,016 posts)and many people rightfully said she should be arrested making a false report
Think. Again.
(9,150 posts)As I mentioned, I think that along with all the intentional agitators, there are probably quite a few plain old nutjobs.
TheProle
(2,226 posts)Srkdqltr
(6,441 posts)mzmolly
(51,021 posts)anything.
elias7
(4,041 posts)This gives me malaise
tritsofme
(17,471 posts)elias7
(4,041 posts)dlk
(11,642 posts)Racist, sexist women are the worst.
tritsofme
(17,471 posts)Response to TheProle (Original post)
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