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Fucking Anti-Semite!
Edit: /s
Nothing more antisemitic than a jew calling for an end to a genocide
Yep, that was the joke.
Clear sarcasm getting blasted. C'mon lemmy.
I've never seen a post where the /s seemed less necessary. You're better than this Lemmy.
Wanna know the dirty little secret about lemmy that we've all slowly had to realize about reddit too? We're not better than this.
Learning it the hard way
Bruh, it’s pretty much Reddit up in here. Sadly.
There really is no such thing as clear sarcasm in this political climate.
If they were actually a zionist, there would he a wall of text explaining that actually Israel is showing a lot of restraint and they have a right to "self defense." Generally the over the top tone indicates sarcasm. Worst case, check their profile and see if they're actually insane.
I'll send flowers to their next of kin
Poe's law says otherwise. Plenty of goof-balls here that would make such a claim boldfaced.
Forgot to put /s and paid the price (；一_一)
I'm not sure if it's recency bias or if Lemmy manages to be even worse about obvious sarcasm detection than the snoo site.
And to think the DNC wanted to attack him for being Jewish.
Please don't attack stupidity with ableism.
The original commenter was likely using sarcasm
Clearly sarcasm, it's a quote from The Big Lebowski
That's really not my issue.
I agree ableism is bad but the original comment wasn't stupidity, it was decent sarcasm.
The original comment wasn't bigoted. The r-word is bigotry. "The original comment is stupid" wouldn't excuse the N-word, would it? What's the difference?
If a comment is stupid, call it stupid. Don't be a bigot.
Since when did I excuse the r-word usage? I just said that ableism is bad. I condemn it. I object only to you calling the original comment dumb when it was satirical.
Pretty sure they're joking based on their comment history
One thing I don't miss about Reddit. A top level joke post on every discussion.
You're the one who can't detect sarcasm