• @Sekrayray
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    Really? We’ve basically descended to antisemitism now?

    I 100% think the use of force in Gaza is genocide and a war crime, but this is a cartoon I’d expect from the Right. We’re better than that.

    Looking forward to the downvotes for my ground shattering opinion that racial generalizations never have a place in political commentary.

    EDIT: I’ve never been happier in my life to be downvoted. Keep them coming. I love how I even said in my initial comment that I do not support Israel and think they’re committing genocide (which is the general Lemmy opinion), but I’m still getting toasted. I would say the same thing about a WWII cartoon that made racial generalizations about Asians, or about the imperialist cartoons of the late 1800s that made generalizations about any number of a group of other people.

    • @samus12345
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      Criticizing Israel’s government is not antisemitism.

      • Gloomy
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        And the big nose shit is a critic of said government and not antisemitism at its finest in what way exactly?

        • @samus12345
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          It’s a cartoon. Big noses are extremely common. There’s a specific way that a stereotypical “Jewish nose” looks, and this isn’t it.

          • @frunch
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            What’s worse though?! Comic artist giving people big noses or an army indiscriminately killing children and press then sweeping them both under the rug as terrorism?

            ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @RealFknNito
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      Israel are not the Jewish people. You’ve been propagandized to. I’m sorry and fuck off.

      • @Sekrayray
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        Yeah, the cartoon really conveys that with its stereotypical depiction of a Jewish person.

        There are better ways to represent a country.

        • @RealFknNito
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          Hey boss, they do everything in their power to make you think they represent all Jewish people. This is the most inoffensive way to illustrate them I’ve seen in a long ass time.

          I think you’re just struggling with the fact they’re the bad guys.

        • @[email protected]
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          The cartoon doesn’t have to. It’s common sense that a nation isn’t the same thing as a religion.

    • @[email protected]
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      The downvotes are because nuance doesn’t belong on lemmy. Only militant “agree with the hive or fuck off!” opinions are considered here.

      What you said is 100% correct. Not everything is as black and white as the lemmy collective makes it out to be. But pointing this out makes you as close to the enemy here’s as if you had posted MAGA propaganda.

      I’ll be downvoted too, but since up and down arrows have no value to anyone over the age of 12, - I wouldn’t worry about it.

      • deaf_fish
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        Being against the state of Israel does not make one antisemitic. Just like being against the US doesn’t make you anti-christianity. States and religions are not the same thing.

        People aren’t down voting you because of groupthink. They are down voting you because of OPs and your bad take. Quit whining. Get better takes.

      • the downvotes are because the opinion expressed is not only wrong, but monstrous. its like saying “its complicated” about the holocaust or any other of the myriad of crimes committed by the nazis. it is fucking not and muddying the waters by stating otherwise makes you nothing but a genocide apologist.

        from the river to the sea

      • @Sekrayray
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        Oh yeah, I’m not worried about it at all.

        It’s just disturbing to me to see the side that I see as the good guys (the left) getting increasingly drawn into the trap of violence and discrimination. It’s like no one in politics has the ability to self-reflect these days.

        • @[email protected]
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          It’s just disturbing to me to see the side that I see as the good guys (the left) getting increasingly drawn into the trap of violence and discrimination.

          You got disturbed by your own imagination which is something children do.

    • @zerog_bandit
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      You’ve learned a valuable lesson today. A large fraction of the Lemmy userbase is anti semites who got banned from Reddit for advocating for violence against Israel.

      • @stanleytweedle
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        “Everyone that downvotes me is an anti-semite! REEEEEEEEEEE”

      • @[email protected]
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        Violence against genocidal ethnostates is justified, why would anyone be banned for saying that?