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Anybody else here dislike how beehaw is becoming a bit of a hub for the israel-palestine talk? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I don't wanna dive super deep into this, but ever since the news broke it feels like this place has become a hub for shit-flinging from literally everybody about the topic. Sure, I've seen some nuanced opinions and some people attempting to have a normal human conversation, but I just dislike people using this particular instance as the "place to be" to continue this endless flame war. Isn't this counter to the goals of the instance? How many of us come here to argue like children about geopolitics?

Plus, a lot of the people I've seen pointlessly arguing about this have accounts from other instances... I've even seen one person post on their beehaw account, get flak for it, then switch to kbin for no reason.

And at the risk of sounding too conspiratorial, something definitely seems off about a lot of these comments. Maybe it's how a lot just seem to be infodumping. I dunno.

It's only been a few days. Maybe it'll simmer down. But I don't like the direction this is going.

Edit: I'm not recommending we censor political discussion, however in this particular instance I would say it's wise to take a step back and think about what we say to each other

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This instance is explicitly about being good to people, so it makes sense that a conflict will be very divisive when everyone but the civilians are being bad.

This isn't some psyop against Beehaw to try to disrupt our ethos; this a major world event where we're watching the mass slaughter of innocent men, women, and children.

People here are also likely more sensitive than most to settler-colonialist and imperialist violence.

I have seen a few people who are clearly trying to turn it into "x side good", usually because they have dehumanized the other side, but that's maybe been 3 posters I've seen, and they're the same ones in each thread. And as much as that sucks, I don't think we need to ban them, we can handle their anger with sympathy.