Thank you for obtaining my comment! I couldn't find it in the modlog and didn't know how else to get it, so I had to recall what I wrote from memory.

Seconded. This is a perfectly normal and reasonable response. anyone who thinks Israel isn't committing a genocide is either ignorant, a troll, or malicious

Associating anti-genocide with tankies is a tactic.
The libs don't like to be called tankies so it's used to scare them off anti-genocide comments.
Very similar of associating anti-genocide with antisemitism.
Cheap hasbara tricks.

Looks like @PugJesus@lemmy.world has been going on a rampage against people who are critical of Israel lately, PTB for sure.

Lately?

Idk, if he didn't kick our pj before why would goat do it now.

Yeah it's not a good look that Tankie now means "I don't like genocide". Just further dissolves the word's meaning and enables .ml and hexbear to do more things.

I'll investigate later, thanks for the ping. I've since unbanned some of the users, such as @hark@lemmy.world, the others I'm still investigating and some are also spam

I'm fine with people sharing different views, even if they're controversial. Tankies are also allowed to comment in the community, as long as everyone follows the rules and is mutually respectful towards each other, feel free to engage.

If you call out genocide, you're a Tankie.

If you defend genocide, you're valid and will win the election now!

The mod never elaborated, but based on their behavior, I assume the latter.

How can the mod be a turbolib when he claims to be “vaguely leftist”? /s

Maybe he’s simply lying, but I suspect it’s that he’s oblivious to or suppressing his own unexamined political positions.

that mod just such a turbolib that they think you must be a tankie if you're farther left than blue maga

It's that one. Perfect description of pj

Ideology to some extent is behavior, or at least helps determine behavior, when people act in a manner consistent with their own ideological positions. I can see an appeal to "allow all ideas as long as they don't make trouble", but when the nature of most ideologies is to include something along the lines of "it is a morally good thing to spread this ideology to other people" to a lesser or greater extent, and some ideologies require harmful behavior for one to act consistently with it, the conclusion that seems obvious to me is that believing in certain ideologies is itself bad enough behavior for it to be justifiable to exclude those people from a given online community, because such a person will either cause trouble or be a hypocrite. And after all, ideology isn't some immutable inherit trait, a person can change one's ideology and people often do.

All that being said, that particular statement isn't really a clear statement of ideology at all. I disagree with it's implication, but all it really does is demonstrate either a misunderstanding of what harm reduction means, or a viewpoint that is too black-and-white to allow for it, which can be a feature of too many ideological positions to narrow it down.

Yeah, I absolutely agree with you. !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works allows Tankies to comment and engage, some of them do, but only if they follow the rules.

Most of the time they don't bother with the community though because their views and extremism don't hold up to scrutiny.

Thank you for letting us know

Thank you!