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I'm just incredibly shocked by the fact that an admin of the instance lemmy.dbzer0.com is openly supporting Hamas.
Here's a link to the comment: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/61235665/23634712
Lefty Memes follows the principle of "leftist unity".
I strongly oppose the principle, and especially disagree that it benefits anarchism, but it should be clear still that your conflation, of everyone as belonging to the same monolithic group, is narrow and ignorant.
I actually didn't say anything about monolithic groups or leftists unity (to be honest, I couldn't care less about this).
I did say that DB0 was suspect and they enable and promote tankie demagoguery (among many other things, glorification of the brutal DPRK regime).
You imply the existence of a monolithic group by your continued careless use of "they" and "their".
Unity doesn't mean you should be allowing extremism and bigotry.
You have already demonstrated elsewhere in the comments that your sense of bigotry is distorted, as through the twisted rhetoric of Zionism.
Regardless, my objection is to the assumption that everyone associated with DB0 agrees with all off the content, as would seem to be based on a mindset of "us versus them".
Yes, Zionism is a very convenient dogwhistle
David Duke of the KKK also uses zionism way prior to social media recognition, where he uses Zionist to refer to Jews.
I've dealt with neo-nazis and their extremism before and they too use zionism as a means of obscuring their views. For someone who larps so much about nuance, you should know that dogwhistles exist, and it's the contents of the post that determine whether or not something is extremist and bigoted, or in this case, antisemitic.