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uhhhhh... saying death to any country or group is inherently violent and extremist.
What gave me pause was this
I told them that it is not good to wish death on Israel or Palestine. Just because shitty people are in power, doesn't mean the populace has to suffer because of it. It doesn't matter which side.
that's also what i told them, but that was enough for them to consider me a zionist and ban me. for a group that larps on about how much they oppose campism they sure do use it a lot.
There's definitely a cultural translation issue here
Tehranian's talking about death to inanimate abstractions that must be interpreted figuratively have an excuse that competent English writers who understand coherent literal meanings do not. We don't use "death to" this way: the right word is "fuck", eg, "fuck traffic!", "fuck Israel!".
i can get behind fuck israel
but they are literal.
Death to the Republican party!
yeah that too
even though i agree with it
But I am saying death to the party, not members of the party. Calling for the Republican party to end doesn't mean that the members of the Republican party need to end.
'Death to Israel' is not the same as 'death to Israelis'.
No, you didn't. Death to X is always ambiguous and can refer to anything, that's why extremists use it. If you don't want people to interpret Death to X as violent extremism, then you need to specify
Like how you already specified.
So when you agreed to him saying the Republican Party, and before his clarification, which way were you interpreting it?
Violence
Fascists get no mercy