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the no state solution (lemmy.today)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 4 points 8 months ago (21 children)

What's up with the watermelon? Asking bc it's a nazi-adjacent thing where I'm from

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It contains the colours of the Palestinian flag 🇵🇸

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, gotcha

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago (15 children)

    Guessing you’re German? It is used in place of the Palestinian flag, because it has the same colors. Since Germany is terrified of being labeled antisemitic, (and Israel immediately jumps to “you’re an antisemite” whenever anyone disagrees with them,) the German government has their tongue all the way up Israel’s asshole. So the German government labeled it antisemitic, (and started trying to propagandize their population to believe so as well, by equating it with Nazis) because they don’t want any Germans making headlines by using the emoji to support Palestine.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I think she said Swiss in another post? There's a lot of cultural cross-pollination

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    It's not seen as a nazi symbol in Switzerland (at least in the french-speking part). But off course, the right wing labels everything pro-Palestine as antisemitic, like pretty much everywhere I guess

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    Nope, just tired of seeing it get associated with the word "based", bc I know who came up with that association. I think you can sorta deduce my country from that lol

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    That's based!

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (7 children)

    Just don't combine that with watermelons lol or I'll assume you're cool with nazis (or simply oblivious). Peep the other comment, I explained it briefly.

    e: I guess it doesn't make sense outside of my country so idc that much, just wanted to know the context

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    But Palestine is based too.

    I hate the Hitler ate sugar trope, I will appropriate Nazi memes and use them against them all I want.

    It is only as evil as the user wielding them.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    True, it's a bit hard to tell sometimes though, in other contexts that is

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I generally don't believe in inborn discrimination, I don't like punishing people for anything that does not come about as their own actions. I also had a lot of tolerance before, but it backfired. I feel that I need to be a lot more vindicative nowadays.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    If i understand correctly, in Ukraine watermelons equate to nazis?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Not always, it's the memes combining watermelons with "based" lingo, and for the most part people using them are fine, just not aware that it got started by nazis and is sometimes used as a dogwhistle

    edit: you can draw a parallel to how pepe is used, only the origins and users are flipped in that case

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