• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Reminds me of this one, and how in the US you can lose your job in academia (and many other sectors) for supporting the BDS movement to boycott Israeli goods:

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      43 minutes ago

      “It’s bad to support smothering orphans” what country does this guy live in
      Saudi, UAE and (to a lesser extent) Egypt are all for whatever Israel does. It’s more complicated in other countries because the people are against it but the government isn’t, so you have to be against Israel just enough to please the people but not too much that you displease the government ❤️

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      5 hours ago

      Lmao, I’m taking a Europe after 1919 history course at a notoriously conservative college and it is a struggle to not be openly vitriolic towards the imperialist bloc.