Twitch declares “Zionist” a slur — and a bannable offense
Twitch declares “Zionist” a slur — and a bannable offense
After calls for Twitch to address antisemitism on the platform, the site’s hateful conduct policy now includes “Zionist” as a potential slur. Twitch specifies this is conditional: you’re allowed to discuss the political movement of that name, but not “attack or demean another individual or group of ...
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Do a lot of slurs have a wikipedia page?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/*removed*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetback_(slur)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paki_(slur)
So yeah. Not that 'Zionist' is a slur
Edit: Really, shitty censorship bot? We're adulterating URLs now, and selectively only that specific slur? Gross on both counts
I actually do think “zionist” is in itself a fairly useless term for the Israeli apartheid question (as Norman Finkelstein and Judith Butler do too).
Do any of the forms of zionism (a belief that they should own the land) involve market purchases of the land they would like? (instead of settler colonial theft?)
Yes, probably most of them...