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googlryas ◴[] No.43656769[source]
I'd like to see examples of actual posts that were taken down, rather than talk of the quantity, or who filed the reports.
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esalman ◴[] No.43657102[source]
I am part of a neighborhood group where I grew up in Bangladesh and lived until 5th grade in the 90s.

The group admin this morning let us know via Facebook post that he has received warnings frm Facebook. The group is "at a risk of being suspended" because way too many posts relating to "dangerous organization and individuals" have been removed. He wants everyone to be extra careful when posting about p*l*s*i*e, I*r*e*, g*z*, j*w* etc. He used asterisks himself just to be extra careful himself.

Not to mention my country is dealing with rohingya crisis, which was fueled by Facebook and WhatsApp misinformation campaigns, and Facebook had 2 moderators for the whole country of Myanmar and refused to do anything about said misinformation campaigns. But they sure make exceptions for I*r*e*.

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SauciestGNU[dead post] ◴[] No.43660888[source]
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Duwensatzaj[dead post] ◴[] No.43661460[source]
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SauciestGNU ◴[] No.43661575[source]
I don't. The dissolution of a state implies nothing about the disposition of its people or a violent end to said state.
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iddan ◴[] No.43661681[source]
Easily overlooking the holocaust, the farhud and the pogroms. Israel was founded because Jewish people were not safe without a state.
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1. SauciestGNU ◴[] No.43661819[source]
Jewish people were unsafe because of antisemites and antisemitism, not because they lacked an ethnostate. The diaspora also deserves safety, with or without an Israel.
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2. edanm ◴[] No.43668551[source]
> Jewish people were unsafe because of antisemites and antisemitism, not because they lacked an ethnostate.

1. Unfortunately, antisemitism is alive and well.

2. It is an unfortunate reality that Jews in particular have been persecuted throughout history. But I think it's true that most people want a state of their own, to protect them and to live in the way that they want to live. This is the source of most modern countries/states - some ethnicity with on some specific land deciding to turn it into their state.

The only reason Jews were different was because they were ethnically cleansed by the Roman empire from their own land, and dispersed across the entire Jewish diaspora. This made their situation worse than most ethnicities, made them even more in need of a land to call their own.

> The diaspora also deserves safety, with or without an Israel.

Of course. Everyone deserves safety. I wish everyone got what they deserved.

But we don't get rid of the police force because "no one deserves to be murdered". The world doesn't run just on what people deserves.