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[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 5 points 7 hours ago

Infinite mild discomfort to the genocidal ethnofascists.

[–] The_Filthy_Commie@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 20 hours ago

LBC understands that a second guest, staying in a separate room, also received the same message

''Sir, a second isn'treally received the message.''

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

International news because zionists had to read 2 words

[–] hellinkilla@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago

I know this feeling. When I am driving around and I see

It really pisses me off that they would accuse me, a perfect driver, of murdering children. Can't believe the city believes and promotes stereotypes that certain people can't drive by deliberately putting this trash right where I am going!!

[–] Rom@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Shomrim, a Jewish community policing network in north London, said the men’s treatment “bears all the hallmarks of targeted antisemitism”.

Acknowledging genocide is antisemitism powercry-2

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 87 points 1 day ago

Jewish guests staying at a Travelodge hotel in London have expressed their shock and horror after being confronted with a "Free Palestine" message on their rooms' televisions.

Shock and horror at a message urging ending genocide.

[–] Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net 26 points 1 day ago

This was their 9/11

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even if this did happen—which, let's be real, this has some big 'blacks rule' blacks-rule energy—it's pretty common knowledge that the service code for the Travelodge TV admin menu is 1105. Literally anybody could have changed this at any point in the last three years.

[–] abc@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it's pretty common knowledge that the service code for the Travelodge TV admin menu is 1105

i wouldn't think that's common knowledge at all actually

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's fair. It's common knowledge enough that I've met people who've figured it out independently, outside of us extremely online nerds. Maybe not with the general public. Valid criticism.

But let's say you wanted to stir up some shit, and looked up ways to do it. Suddenly blacks-rule

[–] abc@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah I was just saying I don't think the average layperson can tell you off the top of their head the Travelodge TV admin code lol. I can assure you now though that I've associated the phrase "1105 Travelodge admin" with the idea of 'common knowledge' in my brain so be sure to test me in the future on a random thread. I fear for whatever actual piece of common knowledge got booted out in my brain for it.

NOOOOO "Can anyone do CPR here?! We've got a man down!!"

Me in the future: knight-nod 1105 travelodge admin

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 41 points 1 day ago (6 children)

the western media's going to keep this up and eventually there's going to be turbo genocide against the jews since the average normie thinks that the jews, as a monolith, love genocide actually desolate

in fact once isntrael is finally brought down the west will 1000% blame "the jews" for everything

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 7 points 11 hours ago

turbo genocide

Like the actually real one in Gaza? Or Lebanon? The western media is owned by zionists (jewish or not does not make a difference they're all zionists), they're harping on about "judeochristian values", the jews that are in danger live in Iran not europe.

[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

You are a zionist

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A turbo genocide? Is gaza/lebanon just a regular genocide?

[–] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 10 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

The user has more posts about imaginary retaliation against Jews than about the very real genocide being inflicted in Cuba. More posts about Jews being victims than about the genocide in Yemen.

Imaginary future victimhood

[–] mr_sunburn@hexbear.net 28 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I was talking to a USA Democrat relative and she told me that watching Israel's actions had made her start to get angry when she saw Jewish people. And that she "knows about the holocaust and all that" but that she "doesn't feel sorry for them anymore" because what they're doing in Palestine is wrong. I was surprised that she was self-aware enough to realize she was developing a strong anti-Jewish prejudice, but also that she seemingly was okay or even proud of her prejudice. I tried to talk her out of it but she basically clammed up when I started talking about her duty as a person to counteract the prejudice.

Ultimately, it exposed some of the inner workings when someone is developing a prejudice. They go through life with a simple, wrong heuristic, assigning humans to groups and making them collectively liable for actions of their group. That group is then judged as "good" and worthy of praise, or "bad" and worthy of scorn. It's not complicated stuff but it is shameful and common.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

It's funny because you and she have more blood in your hands than those non Israeli Jewish peeps. Your tax money is paying the genocide. Your "heroes" in the army support Israel and attack those who are opposed to them, like Iran.

[–] mr_sunburn@hexbear.net 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Well yes, the US is funding genocide and extracting money from me to do it, but I don't really get why you're coming for me personally, edgelord.

I don't have volitional control over the US Military and I don't find the US military and its child killing actions heroic in the slightest, and its a continuation of nasty genocidal work from the foundation to the modern day through My Lai and Abu Ghraib.

I oppose those policies and am actively organizing with my fellow socialists to end this, but we both know it will take more than me saying "no", it will take mass organized revolutionary action. We are all born into a world with disturbing contradictions and injustice and have a burden to work toward a more just world.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm not going for you, but "you". That's the thing about communitarianism, you're part of makeup of the actual material conditions, you don't get a individualistic pass of non complicity. The burden is on the shoulders of all people, it's the lifelong brain washing propaganda of self-made men that makes you think otherwise. Socialists in North America shouldn't see themselves as saviors, but penitents instead.

[–] mr_sunburn@hexbear.net 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

By that logic, are we part of the makeup of the actual material conditions or are some groups more complicit than others? Your hands and your "peeps" are looking pretty bloody as well, comrade.

[–] SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Yes, they are, and that takes a toll on me. The genocide must be stopped.

[–] THEPH0NECOMPANY@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had a similar experience last semester with one of my closer classmates. He basically asked something like "How am I not supposed to be antisemitic?" I just explained to him that there are Jewish antizionists and that he only sees otherwise because the mainstream media amplifies only one side. And that was sufficient for him, but I also have a lot of credibility on this because I've been openly Pro Palestine.

Thing is that I can't blame him at all for coming to this conclusion, every and I mean every single Jewish org in our area is Zionist. So when they see mainstream media, politicians, and Israel conflate the two why wouldn't they believe them?

[–] SickSemper@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, how many synagogues are organizing against the genocide? How many jewish groups are actively advocating for an end to israel? Compared to how many are actively advocating for the genocide and deepening ties to israel

It's not just the media, the quantity of genuninely antizionist jewish organizations is vanishingly small and mostly located within Iran if I had to guess

[–] mar_k@hexbear.net 5 points 20 hours ago

Also there's definitely a decent amount of jewish anti-zionist orgs in the US. Jewish Voice for Peace (you might've seen their "Not In Our Name" slogan) alone is gigantic and probably the largest or most recognizable pro-Palestine protest group in the country. The name sounds lib, but they're very clear that they're firmly anti-zionist, pro-BDS, and have been calling Israel a settler-colonial, genocidal apartheid state for years. Liberal and conservative zionists alike claim they're infiltrated by Hezbollah

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[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 48 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So, a guest changed the username on the TV in the room. We need to involve the cops right now

Right? World's biggest crybaby shit

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[–] git@hexbear.net 63 points 1 day ago (2 children)

visibly Jewish

What did they mean by this

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 40 points 1 day ago

They just came back from performing Fiddler on the Roof.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Probably dressed in typical religious attire?

[–] git@hexbear.net 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What does it add to the reporting that “two Jewish guests” doesn’t already?

This is a media criticism angle question - think about why a rag like this would say “visibly” and what emotion that intends to stir. Why does it matter when they’re interacting with a faceless computer system that doesn’t know they’re “visibly Jewish”? Why should we care whether they choose to outwardly express their faith or not? Does it make them more or less worthy “victims”?

And so on.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 20 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Maybe they thought hotel staff intentionally assigned them to that room and quickly made that message while they were on the way to their room?

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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago

Because two visibly Rastafari people probably wouldn't be crying about a free Palestine message?

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 17 points 1 day ago

Considering how the news likes to play with words, it's entirely possible they were wearing clothes that had the Israeli flag on it but the news is choosing to define it as Jewish

[–] 3rdWorldCommieCat@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There's people dying who tf cares

Everybody should be greeted with it regardless.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 10 points 1 day ago

If anything, people at large in the US and Western Europe are the ones who need to be confronted with messages like this.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago
[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago
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