So apparently for lemmy.world mods pointing out that the word "anti-semite" is far more used than "antigypsyism, anti-Romanyism, antiziganism, ziganophobia, or Romaphobia” even though the Nazis targetted both Jews and Roma in the Holocaust, is, somehow, "Criticizing Jewish people as a whole".
Or maybe it's the whole "I don't care about any one specific race, I care about people and think it's always unjusct when people are treated differently based on things they were born with, such as race" that was deemed "Criticizing Jewish people as a whole".
Good old lemmy.world: they were called on it repeatedly so eventually walked back on the whole "criticizing Israel is anti-semitic" but apparently if you don't go along with the view that racism against a very specific group is much worse than racism against people from other groups, then you must be against that specific ethnic group.
My comment in text for reference:
All clearly as frequently used as "anti-semitism" /s
And yeah, I don't care about race, any race, I care about people, which includes that they're not unjustly treated for things that were not their choice, such as the race they were born into.
It's Racists who feel the need to care about a race or races, defending things for some races which they do noit defend for others, doing little performances about how others must care about those races too and that those who don't "are against those races" - for them race comes first, defining a person and dictating how they should be treated.
For Humanists race is something that should be of as little importance to how somebody is treated as the color of their eyes or how tall they are, and yet they see again and again race weponized by Racists to treat people differently even though those people haven't actually earned such treatment through their actions: in other words race fro Humanists is something that should be irrelevant yet has been turned by others into a pivot for injustice.
It's pretty obvious from your little performance which one you are
Naw mod made the right call
It was bait provoked reaction, OP and mod both had axes to grind.
There will be more like thus as the Gaza crimes continue and the perpetrators use the holocaust and anti-semitism as defense.
But having seen real antisemitism myself, this all makes me very nervous. Especially when the inevitable push backs begin in earnest.
There is genuine anti-semitism out there, a lot of it quiet and unvoiced but none the less translating into discriminatory behaviors against some people purely because they're Jewish.
(You can even see some obvious examples of anti-semitism here in Lemmy - which is supposedly more left of center and having in average more highly educated users - all the time: just notice those people who blame Jews in general for the actions of Israel, something anchored on the "logic" that a whole ethnicity is responsible for the actions of some individuals in it, a pretty common Racist trope)
That doesn't make any less real the chasm between how much the accusation of "anti-semitism" is thrown around and the actual prevalence and the intensity of anti-semitism in the modern era in Europe (which is what that thread was about and the whole thing was under a post entitled "Netanyahu Says It’s Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own Atrocities"), and the profound difference in how racial discrimination against Jews is treated versus how the racial discrimination against other ethnic groups is treated.
This is especially obvious when compared with the Roma People and Romaphobia, because in there the chasm is in the very opposite direction - in Europe the discrimination is huge yet the attention paid to it is minimal.
In my view this reflects the Racist Architecture in the minds of many self-proclaimed anti-racists - racial discrimination isn't looked at by them as a problem of injustices and even injuries committed against individuals by those who use race as an excuse (and hence were logically prioritization of addressing the problem should be based on harm done), instead it's looked at as a race thing - in other words, they're adopting the perspective of the aggressors (who in their twisted minds are "fighting against a race" and have objectified their victims as a "member of the enemy race") rather than that of the victims (who suffer as people, quite independently of race: it's not really their "race" that's hurting or even being harmed, it's them, human beings).
That a moderator actual thinks pointing this out is “Criticizing Jewish people as a whole”, is just extraordinary and in my view probably reflects the moderator's own internalized Racial Discrimination.