I agree some of the comments went a little overboard and hopefully moderation will address the death threats. My personal experience has been positive with them in the Israeli topics. They are very quick to ban anyone that compares Israel to Nazi Germany which I appreciate. : P Era is not perfect, but they try the best they can to be fair and reasonable on a hostile topic like that.
At least we agree on the death threat thing, but I genuinely feel you're being naive if you think they'll ever address it. You saw the people in that thread that were actually contesting the death threats getting banned and even someone hoping the kid dies in a car accident without so much as a warning. These people have been successfully dehumanized even among the staff, which is what allows people to wish or explicitly threaten harm on them with at best a slap on the wrist.
And just to be clear, I DON'T think those kids were in the right beyond going after CNN. Being underage doesn't preclude someone from being a shithead. I won't go as far as to say the maga hat is the same thing as a klan hood, but it's absolutely incendiary in many situations and is just asking for trouble. ...Which is kind of interesting, don't you think? For the longest time, "look how she was dressed" was a way for right wing misogynists to justify all kinds of shit. How we present ourselves absolutely has consequences, but there are expectations that they won't be disproportionate. You may argue that the difference is being intentionally being incendiary, but as someone with brainwashed Trump supporting family members in Kentucky, I can tell you right now that for many people, it doesn't even cross their minds that they're being threatening just by wearing that shit. But either way, you and I both know if Sandmann got murdered, they'd be using the "just look at what she was wearing" defense, just in a more roundabout way.
On the Jewish/Israel thing, that I just can't wrap my head around. You made (or was it a bump?) a thread considering moving to Israel
for your own safety and people started attacking you for it. They only started getting banned after a mod came in to set guidelines, basically exonerating the people making direct attacks against you before that post.
Or what about this thread:
CNN Calls for Jersey City BOE member to resign intensify, while some come to her defense
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One person got banned for a derail while other people agreeing with him didn't get anything. People are in there basically talking about the community there the same way 1930s Germans were talking about the Romani, and we both know how that turned out. Which is funny because the school official didn't even make a distinction between the types of Jews (she still has her job by the way), yet that thread is all about "we should hear the concerns of this blantant antisemite. It's not like Jews matter in this situation because they have all the money and aren't fearing for their lives in the wake of increasing antisemitism from all sides of the political spectrum." The thread also died after 2 pages because 1. people were too afraid to spout their antisemitic dog whistles now that a mod made things clear and 2. people don't care about Jews if their involvement in something doesn't fit their narrative (notice how white supremacist attacks against Jews got 10+ page threads at minimum).
What about this thread:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/mass-stabbing-at-jewish-synagogue-in-rockland-county-ny-reports/2251668/ Multiple people were reportedly stabbed at a Jewish house of worship late Saturday night. The Orthodox Jewish Public Affairs Council said five people, all Hasidic, were transported to...
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Another one that died after 2 pages with a single ban over a weird tangent and another ban about... contesting the white supremacy accusations in the thread. Think about that, the biggest ban in there is on a Jewish guy not trying to shift blame of a crazy black guy stabbing people (including a child if he wasn't stopped) to white supremacy, all while people that minimize the situation or spout another "we should listen to the concerns of the black community there and not the other marginalized community this thread is about" justification that gets no ban or even a warning.
That includes a mod by the way, and I can tell you from actually talking to her that Nepenthe doesn't give a shit about Jews when they aren't politically useful for whatever hotep rhetoric she wants to spout.
What about this thread that you posted in:
- Store will open in Tel Aviv, at one of the big malls - This is a mere month after Nintendo opened an online store in the region (https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-israels-online-store-is-now-open/ ) - This will be the second store to open (after NYC), with the Tokyo store due to open...
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The one ban is from a person complaining about the antisemitism in there.
Oh, and there's also a big antisemitic dog whistle in there that went unmoderated. "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" is a Palestinian nationalist slogan insinuating the extermination of those that currently live there and is NOT a slogan in favor of a one state solution. When I had an account, I reported that post. Heard nothing back.
But if none of this will change your mind, there's really nothing else I can say. Enjoy your time on Era and hopefully you won't turn into a useful idiot like many Jews have on the left.
I avoid the politics section and this thread for obvious reasons, but I enjoy posting on off topic
