My meme is an expression of my own experience that a bit too often when Israeli apartheid and genocide come up on lemmy, invariably some German user pops up and starts shifting the discourse to victim blaming the Palestinians. That’s not “all Germans bad”, just like when we criticize American users for making every single topic be about Democrats and Republicans, we are not saying “all Americans bad”. I complain about a tendency, not condemning an ethnic group.
I see what you’re saying, I guess it comes off as “all Germans” to me because “a random German” sounds like, “any random sample of Germans is likely to contain a xenophobic/nationalist individual”; when I feel like that could be the case for almost any random group… thus, unnecessarily creating an outgroup
Maybe instead of “random German person on Lemmy”, it could be “random xenophobic German person on Lemmy”…a little wordy, but it captures the irony of your statement, while also bringing the atrocities of Isreal to the forefront of attention
Idk, maybe I’m too much of a/an (insert label) and I’m killing the joke by overthinking
Edit: maybe it’s like mentioning “school shootings and guns” or “pittbulls” and inevitably awakening the indignant who just “have to comment and prove their point”… thus proving (and reinforcing) your own point. To me, it feels like introducing discussion on an already lopsided court; though I still respect your self-expression. I just feel it could be a little more nuanced so as to avoid any extra division… but that’s just my own two cents
My meme is an expression of my own experience that a bit too often when Israeli apartheid and genocide come up on lemmy, invariably some German user pops up and starts shifting the discourse to victim blaming the Palestinians. That’s not “all Germans bad”, just like when we criticize American users for making every single topic be about Democrats and Republicans, we are not saying “all Americans bad”. I complain about a tendency, not condemning an ethnic group.
I see what you’re saying, I guess it comes off as “all Germans” to me because “a random German” sounds like, “any random sample of Germans is likely to contain a xenophobic/nationalist individual”; when I feel like that could be the case for almost any random group… thus, unnecessarily creating an outgroup
Maybe instead of “random German person on Lemmy”, it could be “random xenophobic German person on Lemmy”…a little wordy, but it captures the irony of your statement, while also bringing the atrocities of Isreal to the forefront of attention
Idk, maybe I’m too much of a/an (insert label) and I’m killing the joke by overthinking
Edit: maybe it’s like mentioning “school shootings and guns” or “pittbulls” and inevitably awakening the indignant who just “have to comment and prove their point”… thus proving (and reinforcing) your own point. To me, it feels like introducing discussion on an already lopsided court; though I still respect your self-expression. I just feel it could be a little more nuanced so as to avoid any extra division… but that’s just my own two cents
I hear you! Wish I had been more careful with the phrasing