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Judging from the comments, I'm probably going to get hated for saying this, but ...I don't like this. This is antidemocratic and dangerous.
Here is my frame of reference: Balkan nationalist paranoia.
The allegations against this guy remind me too much of the allegations raised by Greek nationalists against Macedonian-speakers in Greece during the times before the Prespa Agreement. They were trying to create a political party to promote language rights, at a time when Greece was being paranoid about North Macedonia claiming Greek Macedonia. The nationalists saw Kosovo taken from Serbia and decided they would never let this happen to Greece. People literally believed the Americans were out to redraw maps on the Balkans and were going to use minorities to break up greece. So, make a slavophone party? Traitor. Works for "FYROM". Threatens Greek sovereignty.
Very similar dynamics are still going on with any kind of Muslim political movement calling itself Turkish. Immediately the Greek nationalists will label them Erdogan agents. Traitors who threaten Greek sovereignty.
Thankfully, the Greek state is actually not as paranoid for the most part. But if the ultranationalists got their way, this is exactly the kind of treatment they would like to inflict on any kind of minority political organizing.
Ultimately, this is a political persecution. We see these kinds of persecutions in Turkey, against the Kurds for example. Or in Albania against the Greek minority in past decades.
The guy's crimes are all in the political sphere. Non violent. Subject to the democratic process. This smells very bad and will very likely backfire politically. The guy is now going to be treated as a politician prisoner by the Russian propaganda machine. Used as proof that European democracy is not all that it claims to be. This is bad. I hope he appeals to the European Court of Justice, gets released and then fades to the obscurity he deserves.
What I’m seeing here isn’t an assessment of the issue at hand, but rather a pretext to grind an axe about different political issues.
“Reminds me of…” is doing too much heavy lifting…you skipped over the connective tissue.
Just look at @acargitz/@theacharnian@lemmy.ca's post history. Their comments have all the same spin.
I had a look and I see a bunch of posts from left-wing-but-not-tankie sources, criticism of Israel, America, and Russia, opposition to antisemitism. I demand you make an accusation more specific than 'too much nuance and support for the civil rights of our political opponents'.
What about their ban in "Europe" for bad faith? Edit: After rereading, it was calls for violence against Israeli institutions, not Israelis. So I removed that part of my comment.
That's what the mod said I was doing. That's not what I was doing. I was referring to apartheid institutions and I was talking about the legitimate right of conquered people to use violence within the limits of international treaties to defend themselves and on the same breath I was saying long live all the people of all faiths free and happy.
But this is a profoundly ridiculous turn for this thread. You're scrutinizing my sparse modlog instead of engaging with my actual arguments. That's bad faith and ad hominem. If you need to go look at the one time my comments were too edgy for a mod's liking to discount what I have to say here in this thread, that says more about your lack of a real counter-argument.
You should pipe down instead of trying to turn this into a fight.
I love the smell of condescension in the morning.
Do you have a link for the Israeli violence one? 'Bad Faith' could very well mean 'Disagreeing with my narrative', and given how common that kind of thing is I'm not inclined to take the opinion of a moderator at face value unless you've got a link for that one, too.
In modlog "repeatedly advocating violence". Okay I correct myself, its not against Israelis but against Israel itself, which can be pretty iffy depending on the context of the conversation.