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Roy Brander🇨🇦

@ReneeWestberry @augieray
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Thank-you both for your comments. BTW, the *only* issue I am awaiting instruction on from my moderators, is whether offenses should be removed if followed by context/withdrawal.

I think such is more valuable to the conversation than being afraid to bring up such topics at all.

I think that's very relevant today, as a certain mid-east government is protecting itself from criticism by saying criticizing the current government is to denigrate an ethnic group.

@ReneeWestberry @augieray @admins

The word "Israel" used to denote a bronze-age tribe that was 100% mapped to "an ethnic group". Now it can mean that group, or it can mean a national government that is hated by a fair fraction of their own population, which includes multiple religions and ethnicities.

So if you say "Israel is [bad]", then clarify in following posts that you meant only the Netanyahu government, does the original post have to go?

I'll abide by their call.

@ReneeWestberry @augieray @admins
The removal was notified by email, the rejection of appeal, only appeared on my account page. While puzzled by the timestamp, I accept it, and will follow this limitation in future.

I've been killing a lot of time on Mastodon over the holiday, leading to more posting, and now this mortifying embarrassment.

A great time to shut up for a few months, meaning not reading, either (can't help clapbacks). I will check on Feb 1 for messages.

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