EDIT: Being neurodivergent is a giant pain in the ass.
I linked to a Reddit post instead of just making the post here, because I find making posts on Reddit easier. The post composition screen on Piefed has too many fields; it is too cluttered and “busy” for me. I feel drained when I make a post here. I have some cognitive disabilities which I think are to blame.
I didn’t realize that linking to a post on Reddit would piss everybody off. Fuck me for struggling to execute basic executive functions, I guess 🤷♂️
Maybe I just need to forget about posting here and go back to using my dormant Mastodon account.
Great to hear – wish it was more common all over the place.
Like when muslim terrorists were all the rage, muslims stood the heck up and said “YO, NO, That’s not US!!”, and in many regions (like where I am) they put on all sorts of cool cultural community events to invite people to celebrate the positives of the religion, and to disavow/condemn the actions of those extremist elements. They started putting any temple leader that spoke along radical lines on blast in social media/reported the hate to the authorities. They addressed the issue, and did a great job of it.
The common approach we’re seeing from Israel/Jewish folks, is to sue and litigate anyone that questions the Israeli regime. We’re seeing back-channel levers pulled to censor free speech in western countries on the subject. We see jewish folks trying to get any cultural symbol of arabs in that region, including basic things like “a scarf with a black and white checkered pattern” (keffiyeh) considered as a hate symbol for antisemitism, and anyone that wears these things punished – here in Canada, we’ve had jewish folks use that one to get people kicked out of things like Hockey games (which is tantamount to sacrilege by Canadian standards! Hockey is for everyone!!!). It’s an incredibly negative, punitive, and adversarial approach for the most part. So it really shouldn’t be too surprising that there’s a negative response.