the Ghetto's destruction was done by an invading and occupying external force, not by the country's own army with the full support of the citizens.
The destruction of Gaza and the genocide of the Palestinians are also committed by an invading and occupying external force, the colonial entity called Israel. Or are you suggesting that it is committed by Palestinians?
There are clear parallelism between both, at least in my opinion.
YDI, at least in the community of the lemmy.blajah.zone instance. In the other communities, a long ban could be excessive, but it's not easy to judge that the transphobic^1] post was done in good faith.
^1]: e.g., two people with the same physical traits, one a cis woman, the other a transgender woman, your reasoning will let the first one practice the sport and will forbid it to the second one.
to clarify that they were community bans (not from instances).
Students have developed effective self-governance through student plenums or assemblies, where each student has the right to speak and all decisions are voted on. Ad hoc working groups are put in place to deal with various issues, from security and logistics to PR and legal questions.
The university occupations function without a discernable leadership, alternating the representatives who speak to the public. They are adamant about their autonomy, vocally distancing themselves from all political parties and party politics, as well as from established civil society organisations and even informal groups.
In doing so, they are creating a new political space and new means for the political to be enacted, breaking through the confines of ossified institutionalised politics and representative democracy.
[...] students in Serbia are fully controlling the institutions they have occupied while enjoying an overwhelming support of the public: around 80 percent of Serbian citizens support their demands.
All my support for the students and the Serbian working class, I was not aware of their conflict. The struggle reminds me of the Spanish 15M and, a bit, the US Occupy Wall Street. I hope they have better luck.
Sorry for the poor quality of that response. But I did not have much time at the time, and it's hard for me to write in English (it's not my native language). I thought it was important to point out that in your post, well argued in general, you had introduced a statement without arguments that I don't think fits reality.[^1].
Although this may be a licence to give more force to an argument, I find it especially alarming when this is aligned with the construction of a narrative to promote American imperialism —Yankee anti-imperialism as my subjective position— with an argument with a clearly racist bias —for example: removing the whiteness and Europeaness of ethnic Russians, inciting hatred of Asians, especially those of Han ethnicity and those of Chinese origin—. All of this promotes the fascist drift of the USA and its Western allies.
In any case, and to clarify, I am not accusing you of doing so intentionally, but rather that these types of statements, which seem to me to be at the level of QAnon or flat-earthers, strengthen this fascist drift. BTW, I would have upvoted it without that phrase.
[^1]: Elon Musk lives in the USA, is a member of the US government, has not disagreed (or I am not aware of it) with the tariffs on China or Russia, most of his businesses are based in the USA, he has used the Skyline satellites concurrently with the geostrategic interests of the USA —at least in Ukraine and Iran—,... He could be a detestable human being and an opportunist politician, but their interests seem aligned with the new techno-aristocrat group of the states-unitians oligarchy-only party, now controlled by their Republican faction.
Culture and language have been used for the oppression of national minorities and to settle colonial and imperialist projects. The English, as a lingua franca, is most related to those concepts that with socialist internatioalism. That's not the case with Esperanto.
If ending a joke is promoting violence, where are the bans of the people defending Harris, Biden or the Democrat party, for promoting a violent genoocide ?
[Author] is a founder and a project leader of MapInfluenCE and China Observers in Central and Eastern Europe (CHOICE) and a China Projects Lead at the Association for International Affairs (AMO). She is also a European China Policy Fellow at MERICS in Berlin. In 2023-2024, she advised the Vice-President of the European Commission, Věra Jourová, on Defense of Democracy Package.
The copyright holder of MapInfluenCE and CHOICE is AMO, which is financed[^1] by NATO (and others).
As a european (and from an EU state), I see the influence of the USA much more dangerous.
