While the original comment is maybe a little ambiguous, it’s very reasonable to assume this is a call for violence in the current context.

OP even confirms that was their meaning in the title of this thread.

Fair enough, we differ on our interpretation.

I don't think there is any issue with the moderator, or their moderation decision demonstrated here.

My issue is not so much with the removal as the reasoning. This casts a MUCH wider net for ‘calling for violence’ that, realistically speaking, would need to be applied to a much larger swathe of comments than is probably wise to be consistent.

Lemmy is a textual language based medium; Moderators are developing reputations by their actions. There will always be a requirement of interpretation. I don't see anything problematic here.

Totally agree. Would "will no one rid me of this turbulent ~~priest~~Netanyahu?" be censored too? Most likely.

Violence is part of life and part of politics, like it or not. While a lot of liberal-minded folks in the US screw their noses up in disdain at this fact, anyone who has read a history book (or read the news lately) knows that violence is sometimes that only way to end oppression. Instead of considering the violent act of killing that sociopathic CEO as the problem here, they should recognize that the legal system in the US is designed to protect the rich and keep the poors under the boot.

I honestly think a lot of them are still labouring under the delusion that the legal system is fair and justice is blind. They want us all to follow the letter of the law, no matter how unfair, unethical and corrupt the legal system is. I get that they don't want to get into any personal legal trouble, but ffs they need to grow a spine and actually stand for something instead of engaging in massively over-the-top policing of their communities.

If Trump enacts a law requiring people to report to the police every time they hear someone say anything critical of his government, then I wonder whether the LW admin team will roll over and comply with that law too? How willing are they to be collaborators with new fascist government policies? Sipping cups of tea with your new neo-Nazi neighbours might be the "civil" thing to do, but you had better get used to them living next door, because history has taught us you don't get rid of Nazis by being polite to them. Oops, was that another "call to violence"? Better turn myself in then...

Its a PTB as far as I'm concerned - maybe not from this specific mod, but from the admin team as a whole. Just because it's a rule they have decided to adopt, doesn't mean its a good or just rule.