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[chouchou]

1. A Stereotype the size of Jupiter.

Disgusting.

[NCIndie]

2. You're using an anti-Semitic poster to illustrate antisemitism?

Isn't that a bit self defeating?

Particularly around here, I don't think a blunt instrument is needed to illustrate the history of these attitudes.

[Wednesdays]

4. If we hide all examples of propaganda,

then we never know what it looks like.

[sarisataka]

9. If it makes people uncomfortable- good

I have seen Biden called "stupid", "kissing Israel's ass", "war monger", supporting genocide". I have seen posts saying we must make him a one term President and one for him to resign.
I cannot even track all of the blatantly antisemitic posts I have seen. (No, not all criticism of Israel is antisemitic. I have criticized their actions several times this week)

Sadly most of these posts remain on DU. Perhaps a blunt instrument is exactly what is needed.

I am thankful a jury agreed with me, the post I referenced was over the line.

[Maru Kitteh]

14. Rec for your original post and for this one too. People must see. Russian troll farms target

even a little forum like ours because it is so widely seen. They encourage the worst impulses of a contingency of far left and try to push those attitudes and antisemitism into the mainstream.

We must be guarded against it, and against Islamophobia.

[sarisataka]

17. Completely agree

I posted about threats our Muslim congress members are receiving. Islamophobia is equally intolerable.

[inthewind21]

12. Right

I'm upset and alerting over antisemitism so let me post THE SAME antisemitism I alerted. Makes perfect sense!

[sarisataka]

20. Perhaps your issue is with the Holocaust Museum

Since that was my source.

If you think calling out current antisemitism and showing how the exact same antisemitism was expressed in the past is the same, I do not know how to help you. But I will try.

If a person says slavery was wrong, and then uses a picture to show how slaves were treated is that supporting slavery?

[Hugin]

3. That's what makes misinformation and propaganda corrosive.

It’s so divisive.

Like you, I refrain from alerting, but when an environment of highly charged emotions takes hold during a period of open conflict. These issues take on a new urgency and people feel that they must stand up for their view of the situation.

[Elessar Zappa]

5. I've alerted a couple of posts too.

I usually don’t but anti-Semitic canards shouldn’t be tolerated on a progressive website.

[edhopper]

6. What that poster said is true

in that Congress is in the pocket of many, many groups and lobbyists. Some domestic, some international.
But it is different from those, mostly Republicans, who are actually in the pocket of Russia and Putin.

[SouthernDem4ever]

8. The SCOTUS really fucked this country with Citizen's United

Dark money flows from every fascist orifice now.

[edhopper]

10. It really stopped us

from being a Democracy.

[Maru Kitteh]

16. You just stated that Biden and Congress is in Israel's back pocket because money. Do you

believe that? Do you believe as you said, that what the removed OP stated was true?

[edhopper]

19. No

I said the Congress is in the pocket of many, many lobbyist groups. Not all members the same groups, but most are beholden to one lobbyist groups or another. The ones who aren't are few and far between. It's how things are, especially after Citizens United.
Israel is just one of many of these groups.

[Wounded Bear]

7. I rarely alert, but I've been known to when I feel it is justified...nt

[Autumn]

11. Citizens United ring a bell?

[Emrys]

13. Well, a couple of weeks ago I alerted on a post that called for the torture of Hamas captives.

Another DUer challenged this by pointing out torture had been tried in the past and was not only illegal but unproductive, at which the poster I alerted on expanded on this vehemently by saying what they'd tried wasn't enough, and he meant "truly medieval torture."

Those posts stood for two days before I finally decided to alert on the second one, which I was then glad to see was hidden, or I'd have lost a lot of faith in DU. The first slightly less objectionable post still stood the last time I looked - I left it as I felt the poster, who regularly crops up on threads about Israel/Palestine and is vociferous in support of Israel, should own it. That poster certainly hadn't thought better of the first post, having gotten a hide, and deleted it.

I didn't post about this till now as I generally feel that's against forum etiquette and the jury result is enough and should be the end of the matter, but if we're sharing objectionable material we've found on DU, then why not?

[sarisataka]

15. I was a jury member

You are welcome

[Emrys]

18. Good. Did you see the first post I referred to while making your decision?

If so, was there any reason why you didn't alert on it? It called for torture.