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[–] Azzu@lemm.ee -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

If you had looked at the link of this post, you would have read:

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 people on the basis of their background or religious belief.”

I.e. nothing is masqueraded here as long as they keep to this. This seems to be a reasonable policy. I've seen a couple of instances of people being derogatorily called zionists just for supporting the people of current Israel not being pushed away out of their now decades-old homes, which is hard to still call Zionist if they don't support any further expansion and any offensive military action.

There's almost never anything gained to use "Zionist" on someone as if saying "asshole".

[–] anas@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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 people on the basis of their background or religious belief.”

Zionist is a political term, it has nothing to do with one’s background or religious belief.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You're entirely right.

But see if the political view is only held by members or a certain religious group (even if not all members of said religion accept said political thought), it's easy to conflate it, so that you can ban anyone opposing said political thought based on "they're discriminating against me because of my religion".

Fuck twitch.

[–] Schmoo 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except not all Zionists are Jews, many are Christian.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Well, I guess, but... you could argue that Zionists are mostly seen to be purely Jewish due to the nature of the movement.

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