Lemmy.ml mods remove "two-sideism" comments on Israel-Palestine conflict on AskLemmy, causing drama (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by Microw@lemm.ee to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

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A user posted the question What opened your eyes to what's happening in Palestine? on !asklemmy@lemmy.ml.

As is evidenced, multiple comments have been removed by mods. The Mod log shows the moderator removing multiple of these comments due to "rule 1", which on lemmy.ml is:

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

The mods then also banned some of the commenting users for a few days.

This all lead to a post by one of the affected users to AskLemmy, accusing the mods of "removing all comments critical of Hamas". "No comments critical of Israel were removed", the user alleges. The post has since been removed by the lemmy.ml mods as well and the user banned for 14 days.

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[-] Microw@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

That one I can see why the comment is removed. The Statement that

When agreements are reached, there is always one side who breaches the agreements.

simply is a blatant lie.

[-] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Did they mean "only of the two sides breaches" (i.e., it's always _____'s fault) or "either one or the other side always breaches" (i.e.,, each side instigates at one point or another) ...?

And for the record I don't know the details of which interpretation is accurate. And also I'm not sure that either phrase even begins to capture the entire complex mess of this long, sickening conflict that wastes so many lives.

My take is genociding, oppressing and terrorizing people is wrong, I don't give a fuck who does it or why.

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