If someone compares Jews to Nazis, the group that killed half the Jews in the world, that is Nazi Inversion, and it's antisemitic. Invoking the Nazis or the Holocaust as so called "rhetorical speech" to talk about the actions of Jews is antisemitic.
It's very clear, it's very simple, and it's not stopping anyone from criticizing anything, because the same argument could be made without Nazi Inversion, and if it couldn't be, then it's not criticism at all, but simply words used to attack, intimidate or in some other way harm Jews.
I'm happy to see that other instances are starting to take Nazi Inversion seriously and act on it when their users engage in hate speech. I strongly encourage all instances who want to stop antisemitism to do the same.
I should probably mention that current thinking is that Nazi Inversion is likely illegal in Germany, so if your instance is German, or hosted in Germany, or run by a German legal entity, it's likely going to need to be acted on.
I would hope that admins would act on hate speech because they want to make the world a safer, more tolerant, more loving place, but if the government has to take that role, I'm happy with that too.
@serge true, the same argument can be made without that. but as with all genocide stuff, people bring in the most egregious example in modern times, which was nazis. in this case, it also adds irony. "i want this country to stop killing starving civilians when they are at the food trucks" is not synonymous with "i don't like jews." i'm buddhist and have zero issues calling out muslims for what they do to the rohingya. i'm not anti buddhist. i'm anti-slaughter.
@serge also, what the israeli govt is doing? is not at all good for the jewish people. not politically, and not for their own well being psychologically. its well known that killing harms those doing it as much or more than those they target. that's regardless of why. and it gives cover to actual antisemites.
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