the mod said they will unban him if he remove the post in /r/viking
“God”: Based. Cool. Trad. The foundation of Western Civilization. Protected by the first amendment. Maybe we’d all be a little better of we honored him more.
“God” but in Arabic: Extremist. Scary. Woke. A corrupting influence on the global politics. Clear and present danger. We need to expunge it from our nation and the world.
Wait to they find out about Arabic numbers and start banning upvotes and downvotes
In Germany someone trolled a mayor candidate of one of the Nazi parties with that. He fell for it
https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-german-candidate-promises-to-get-rid-of-arabic-numerals
The funniest part of this is they’re literally the same god.
It’s all different forms of YHWH, Judaism, Islam, Christianity.
It’s all the same god with the fanfic changed up a little.
Don’t you dare attempt to explain that to an Evangelical Christian though
I tried pointing that out to my dad and he screamed “THATS BLASPHEMY” and turned purple.
Wanna know something even funnier? Look up the word for “God” in Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke.
Jesud called God in a way similar to “Allah”.
Very true.
Also worth noting this isn’t just a cognate with Arabic ʾIlāh (Allah) but also Hebrew ʾEloah/Elohim (which is the standard way hebrew speaking Jews refer to god in spiritual settings).
Even within the same religion it’s the same word; Arabic Christians and Jews use the word ‘Allah’
Reddit is embracing the new christofascist dictatorship.
Is that the state flag of Ohio on the right side astronaut?
🔫 🧑🚀 always was
Islamophobia still get a pass on the internet. Especially on Reddit.
it very much also gets a pass IRL
it gets a pass everywhere, the decades of propaganda against arabic people via, bush’s wars had a generational effect. but criticism against christianity, is where they draw the line.
This is particularly dumb considering that Allah is the arabic translation for God. Even Christian arabs use Allah.
Yes. Before Bush Islamaphobia was still promoted to justify the Cold War. This is probably the one miserable thing that doesn’t originate from Reagan.
Lots of overlap between ‘viking enthusiasts’ and white supremacists unfortunately. This specifically seems more christofascist but obviously lots of overlap there too.
https://www.norwegianamerican.com/viking-symbols-stolen-racists/
Guy probably got confused when confronted with “conflicting” ideologies, i.e viking jewelry with Arabic inscriptions.
Also, it says “for god”, since it is a translation. In the ideological state of things it is kinda inviting prejudice to translate half the phrase.
They got it from pillaging probably, right?
Disgusting and such a clear example of the damage we do to another when we accept the all encompassing conditions of corporate social media without resistance.
When a social media website is being run for profit, this kind of shockingly ugly simplification of “foreign” ideas (Islam is NOT foreign to the US) is inveitable. In order to monetize at scale, the system demands this degree of ignorance, it is not optional nor an unintended side effect it is rather how “we” ensure the “right” history is recorded as a racist, xenophobic society choking to death on its own bigotry.
It is the same situation with mainstream corporate news. The more money you add, the more practiced and willful ignorance you get.
Nah this isn’t corporate influence, it’s just plain old bigotry and racism. This smells strongly of “brown religion bad”.
A lot of Americans fell victim to this after 9/11 and it never went away. Anything Muslim is terrorism. I doubt most of them even know that allah is just the name they use for their god, and certainly not that it’s the same god as the Christian god.
allah is just the name they use for their god
Christian Arabs use this name for God as well
they also get upset if you call anything christians put into law as 'sharia law"
This smells strongly of “brown religion bad”.
Jesus was a brown, middle eastern, palestinian jew.
Yes I am aware, but good luck convincing white Christians of that.
Try to explain to an American Christian what a Coptic is.
Usually you can watch their brains melt inside their heads.
i feel like we’re in need of another Life of Brian or Blazing Saddles. I wish I were talented enough to write or film either
“devout” sees him as a white , blue eyed man.
It’s not a name. It’s literally just the word “God” in Arabic.
Yes, this is ridiculous, we aren’t even talking about an especially specific word or concept, you might as well call the word for “love” in arabic inherently extremist, threatening and violent.
Ask 1000 Christians what “god” means to them and get 1000 different answers, why would it be any different for Islam?
almost any comment against christianity=bad, even MEDIA/MSN dont touch this, but more than happy to frame muslims as a violent sexist religion, eventhough christianity has DONE ALOT worst.
Mods are always the actual dumbest most power tripping little fuckers. (InB4 banned from this com)
Edit: This is actually just straight up racist / xenophobic the more I think about it.
Mods are always […]
You mean Reddit mods, right?
There’s sadly way too many mods like that here too
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Mods are always
Generalizations are fun, aren’t they?
the actual dumbest most power tripping little fuckers.
This is actually just straight up racist / xenophobic
No, more just anti-authoritarian like an ACAB teen. Racism would have been easy to spot if you’d called the mods a racial slur .
The small userbase of lemmy really allows you to see that 80% of really stupid posts are made by very few very stupid users.
hey, i only account for 5% of those really stupid posts
Remove it so they unban you.
Post it again, and add all this history too.
Immediately unsubscribe from their shit sub.
Just delete all the content and then stop posting: posting again has almost no effect as the mods have no social life and will manually delete the post within minutes, almost nobody would have the time to read it
The most absurd about this imo. is that Arabic is considered promoting terrorism, but Vikings are not.
Don’t you know, all us Arabs are terrorists, and anything in Arabic is immediately illegal!! FFS
Us Arabs? You’re one of them! I’m terrified you’re going to bomb me now on account of you being Muslim. Neo-nazi would be fine OBVIOUSLY
Doh! I gave away my cover, blast you meddling Butterfly!! *angry fist shaking
Sorry I can’t understand you cos of your accent (as you’re muslim you must be foreign, obviously). I’m just going to assume it was a jihad.
Wolowolowolowolowo. (In as much as a UK educated Muslim Arab accent as possible)
Mate I lolled fucking brilliant.
Excellent! My Job is here is done, this world needs a few more giggles.
To be fair, only one of your examples exist in real life, why would media constantly try and ruin the image of Vikings? Ie. Roman republic and empire, loved by western culture, were basically ancient nazis.
Roman republic and empire, loved by western culture, were basically ancient nazis.
This is one of the hardest things to realize after a lifetime of indoctrination, but it explains sooo much about white-supremacist (aka western) “culture”.
1000 year old? How dare this dude threaten us with scary Arabic numerals
reddit must be going hard on the anti-palestine rhetoric. if the mods wont ban you, the site filters would eventually. im seeing quite alot of shadowbannings that dont make sense.
Not even a new thing either, just much worse now. I know a mod who got banned for making a post about boycotting Israel in his own sub of very obvious anti Israel supporters.
Admin banned <1 hour, wiped his post with almost a hundred comments, and then threatened the other two or three mods to fall in line or face the entire sub getting banned or mod replaced.
About 4 years ago, left reddit shortly afterwards when a similar situation happened to r/dankvideos where the admin team nuked ~6 months worth of posts and banned the mod for not moderating content to their agenda.
i heard in another forum where the mods were unilaterally removed by reddit.~ reddit just wants to be a facebook clone, a word that REDDIT ALSO blocks.
Yeah that’s a big reason why I left. The amount of institutional support for genocide on reddit is absolutely gross but unfortunately totally normal.
Reddit has always been a fascist shithole… At least since the state murdered aaron…
state murdered aaron
I want a President do declare Aaron Swartz Day a day of national mourning and shame, with hopeful reflection on the immense value of open source & creative commons. Maybe with a public investment in open source commons like browser or mobile OS.
Yes this is my hobby horse and I am riding it
I mean, that’s the standard of moderation for any online space. Lemmy isn’t any better it’s just more benevolent.
Lemmy is better because there are open standards and alternate servers.
Humans are mostly all the same; incentives pervert or ennoble us.
Centralized power and monetary incentive tend to the former
I wonder how this guy would react to the existance of the Arabic Christians.
The oriental orthodox and assyrian church of the east would blow their mind.
Or Arabic numerals.
They’d react in wonder and reverence, then immediately forget about their existence for the rest of their life while continuing to actively support their literal genocide in Palestine.
The most incredible thing was that the guy got a reply from a mod. That never happened to me when I got banned from subs.
One thing I learned from reddit is that if you breathe wrong, you will get permabanned and accused of racism and if you try and argue your case, you will be ignored.
I don’t miss that site.
Your friend’s rings look really nice btw.
he’s a very talented jewelcrafter. im not sure you can promote on lemmy but you can google his name and see his website
Your friend is very talented! Got a little chuckle out of the wolf head eating putin’s head xD The little punk duck pendant 🤌 I love how he does so many different things and you can clearly see he’s just having fun with his craft and challenging himself. His recreations of old jewelry is super fascinating. I hope he never stops making these little works of art 🤗
Lemmy is pretty much there now. Been banned from a few and you either get back a hostile explanation or none at all. Hurt feelings gets you banned. IMO Lemmy shouldn’t have a ban option for mods, let the downvotes do the talking
I mean with Lemmy you always have the option to invoke the Bender protocol.
They did that!
I thought piefed was its own separate software?
it is, their own new one with blackjack and hookers and more Python, less Rust
So it’s not actually part of Lemmy? I did get that right?
I’ve never heard it called that before, but I like it.
Mods should be allowed to ban bot accounts, though.
A protocol that could never be routinely abused right?
What dipshits.
I got reddit ban once for saying that some paedophiles are so bad, that lots of people think they should get the death penalty.
Community ban from r/unitedkingdom, followed swiftly by…
Reddit is a vast network of communities that are created, run, and populated by people all over the world. In order to keep communities welcoming, safe, and great places to be, everyone who uses the platform operates by a shared set of rules.
Permanently banned for hate
Reddit is moderated by the worst people in the world.
I got banned for the same reason after a comment that contained a direct, attributed quote from Donald trump. TBF he is a hateful little shit so I probably should have known better.
I got reddit ban once for saying that some paedophiles are so bad, that lots of people think they should get the death penalty.
Tbf, some people are hiding their LGBT-phobia under the guise of “i hate pedophiles”, I’m not accusing you of anything, but I can see how that statement could be problematic.
Wait, there’s more!
Pedophilia is a sexual/romantic interest in prepubescent children. Most pedophiles never engage sexually with a child, and a good share of child molesters are not pedophiles and are just looking for easy victims.
So on top of potentially shitting on LGBT community, this also concerns people born with a shitty sexual interest that know full well kids should never be abused.
And the rates of pedophilia seem to be higher among child sexual abuse survivors, so they get death threats on top of their trauma. Not great.
Honestly that sub is a cesspool anyways, you’re better off without it lmao
