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'My school abandoned me': California university cancels pro-Palestinian student's commencement speech
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this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024
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Dude, I fully agree.
My eyes have really been opened.
Anti-muslim sentiment has been going on for a really long time. I thought it was just a few racist uncles who overreacted to 9/11.
But now that the propaganda and suppression is in full swing, it's become abundantly clear. It's not just normal people, it's a coordinated disinformation campaign.
Lemmy is still a relatively safe and reasonable space.
Anti-Muslim, anti-Mexican, anti-gay/trans, anti-atheist, anti-women, anti-etc.
I'm glad people like you've noticed. It's been going on for a long time and it legit makes you feel crazy when you realize it and it still doesn't help when you realize scholars have been studying and writing about this stuff for hundreds of years.
Mmmm... some of Lemmy. I use a script to block some instances.
Lol I swear hexbear is a psyop designed to radicalise LGBTQ people and turn them against the moderate middle, thereby creating exactly the villain the gender/sexuality wedge issue calls for.
...What?
Oh those aren't the instances you block?
...Yes. I do block Hexbear. That's not what I was stumped by.
I mean the community is pretty clearly astroturfed, as otherwise no such group could exist while fundamentally contradicting itself. Being gay and supporting Putin just does not make any rational sense. For all their talk of CIA psy ops left and right, I can't help but see a pot calling the kettle black.
And I would argue that support for Trump is clearly astroturfed, also. Reddit basically nurtured the community leading up to and throughout his presidency, then it spread from there.
It's worse than you imagine. The MAGA cult grew on reddit, with permission and dare I say nurturing from reddit admin.
It was more Facebook than anything and then it spilled over to Reddit and other places.
It's always been this way. It's just now that people are really paying attention, and we have the internet to thank for that.
Anti-muslim sentiment grows easily here because many of the groups who would normally speak out against intolerance are the same groups that would not be tolerated in a Muslim society.