TikTok Says It's Not the Algorithm, Teens Are Just Pro-Palestine
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In a blog post, the company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion.

TikTok says it’s not the algorithm, teens are just pro-Palestine — The company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion::In a blog post, the company denied allegations that it has been promoting pro-Palestine content in an effort to sway American opinion.

  • @Pipoca@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    The problem is when you mention Nazis to Jews, the first things they’ll think of are Zyklon B, Babi Yar, the piles of children’s shoes at Auschwitz, Mengele, that sort of thing.

    And while what’s going on in Israel is terrible, it’s not Mengele terrible, Babi Yar terrible, or Treblinka terrible. So they write you off as just another antisemite, rather than listening to your point.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11•1 year ago

      And yet that was only the very end. The stuff that came before that might as well be a mirror to the way Israel is treating the Palestinians.

      • @Pipoca@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15•1 year ago

        No, not really. Nazi Germany lasted from 1933-1945.

        From 1933 to 1939, things were mostly non-lethal: boycotting and vandalizing shops, banning Jews from public service or practicing law, harassing Jews, etc. The basic idea was to get Jews to emigrate out of Germany.

        The first open ghettos were established in 1939, while the massacres really started in 1941.

        If you’re going to compare Gaza to part of Nazi Germany, the best comparison is to the closed ghettos that were established in 1940, like the Warsaw ghetto. The period between the establishment of the closed ghettos and the beginning of the mass killings was way, way shorter than the mass killings. Of the 12 year span of Nazi Germany, the best comparison is to a period that lasted for about a year or so, 7 years in.

        Nazi Germany really isn’t a great historical comparison to Israel. Honestly, a better comparison is to the US’s treatment of Native Americans, though it’s still not a perfect analogy. The dream of Israel’s far right isn’t to murder every last Palestinian, it’s manifest destiny; an Israel stretching from the river to the sea even if there’s a few small reservations on it.

          • 📛MavenEnglish
            12•1 year ago

            I read this, and from what I can tell, he explicitly said they believe they need to kill every last member of Hamas, and a different unrelated person wrote an essay about how they need to kill all Palestinians?

            • @r1veRRR@feddit.deEnglish
              2•1 year ago

              Well, thats only a relevant distinction if they meaningfully differentiate between Hamas and Palestinian. Considering they’ve talked about using nukes, that they think sacrificing an entire hospital full of innocents to maybe kill a few Hamas, and that we DAMN WELL KNOW how racism means generalizing anyone of a group to be the worst kind of that group, and the fact that the totally un-Hamas west bank is getting ethnically cleansed too, it’s incredibly naive to think they’ll leave any reasonable amount of palestinians alive.

              • 📛MavenEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                Sure, but if you say someone “explicitly said” something, and you link a source, that source should show them explicitly saying it, not saying something that can be taken as implying it, with sufficient context. Otherwise, you risk giving someone nefarious “evidence” that you and yours are just “exaggerating”.