Reddit is a fascist shithole.
I’ve always been a little suspicious that the Fraktur script styling on their page header was a dog whistle but now I’m pretty convinced.
I loooove one of the comment is like “I’ve seen footage of Russians collecting their intestines on here, but Palestinian footage is too much”. Which has so much wrong with it.
I saw one video of a kid pulled out of the rubble of a Syrian building in Damascus wailing for their parents and I cried and had a nightmare days later. I haven’t actively sought out combat footage in years.
Maintaining the aura of Israeli invincibility is 100% key to that settler colonial project.
This makes perfect sense.
Ironically the thing that kind of got me questioning the narrative around ukraiane is how there was never a video from the Russian perspective and it seemed hard to believe that it was actually that one sided of a fight that there wasn’t some random videos of successful attacks or defenses by Russia.
Then when you start applying that same lens of framing to everything else it was a lot less surprising to me than the libs of reddit that the counter offensive wasn’t literally just ukranine skipping into Russia while handing out flowers.
Also maintaining the aura of Israeli righteousness. By banning this they are basically claiming this footage is illegitimate or complicit with criminal activity.
Surprised the comments were against this until they started saying why
Hamas openly and gleefully shows off what best could be called war crimes and at worst genocide in their videos. By suppressing these videos that is going to give more people a sanitized view of what is going on.
Reason: “not to glorify any terrorist group.” This is a slippery slope. Plenty think Israelis are the terrorists. How is anyone supposed to be enlightened to the nature of the actual terrorists, Hamas, when what they are doing is censored? It’s almost as if the Admin are Hamas apologists and only want the scenes produced by the Israeli forces to be seen. Great way to bias.
They really are going to use “Genocide” for any type of violent conflict.
They’re going to use ‘genocide’ for all bad things. Someone told them about the distinction ‘acts’ of genocide when Trump was the bad man doing border things now children being taken from a war zone is genocide. Their read on cultural genocide is even worse.
I remember endless discourse on the Warcraft lore forums on Battle.net (Blizzard forums) about whether so and so faction did genocide in the lore, and long, long discussions about what constituted genocide. Typically users would just be blaming the other side of genocide, while claiming anything their side did was not genocide.
