Guessing you’re German? It is used in place of the Palestinian flag, because it has the same colors. Since Germany is terrified of being labeled antisemitic, (and Israel immediately jumps to “you’re an antisemite” whenever anyone disagrees with them,) the German government has their tongue all the way up Israel’s asshole. So the German government labeled it antisemitic, (and started trying to propagandize their population to believe so as well, by equating it with Nazis) because they don’t want any Germans making headlines by using the emoji to support Palestine.
It’s not seen as a nazi symbol in Switzerland (at least in the french-speking part). But off course, the right wing labels everything pro-Palestine as antisemitic, like pretty much everywhere I guess
they* but no, I’m ukrainian, it took off as a meme a while ago but not everyone is aware it started in nazi groupchats and sometimes gets used as a dogwhistle, so I’m wary
Nope, just tired of seeing it get associated with the word “based”, bc I know who came up with that association. I think you can sorta deduce my country from that lol
Just don’t combine that with watermelons lol or I’ll assume you’re cool with nazis (or simply oblivious). Peep the other comment, I explained it briefly.
e: I guess it doesn’t make sense outside of my country so idc that much, just wanted to know the context
I generally don’t believe in inborn discrimination, I don’t like punishing people for anything that does not come about as their own actions. I also had a lot of tolerance before, but it backfired. I feel that I need to be a lot more vindicative nowadays.
Not always, it’s the memes combining watermelons with “based” lingo, and for the most part people using them are fine, just not aware that it got started by nazis and is sometimes used as a dogwhistle
edit: you can draw a parallel to how pepe is used, only the origins and users are flipped in that case
this is just a shitpost
free Palestine🇵🇸🍉
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Should not be surprised you’re a rad one, violet08!
You mean: violent08
What’s up with the watermelon? Asking bc it’s a nazi-adjacent thing where I’m from
Guessing you’re German? It is used in place of the Palestinian flag, because it has the same colors. Since Germany is terrified of being labeled antisemitic, (and Israel immediately jumps to “you’re an antisemite” whenever anyone disagrees with them,) the German government has their tongue all the way up Israel’s asshole. So the German government labeled it antisemitic, (and started trying to propagandize their population to believe so as well, by equating it with Nazis) because they don’t want any Germans making headlines by using the emoji to support Palestine.
In America watermelons are associated with racist stereotypes about black people
I think she said Swiss in another post? There’s a lot of cultural cross-pollination
It’s not seen as a nazi symbol in Switzerland (at least in the french-speking part). But off course, the right wing labels everything pro-Palestine as antisemitic, like pretty much everywhere I guess
they* but no, I’m ukrainian, it took off as a meme a while ago but not everyone is aware it started in nazi groupchats and sometimes gets used as a dogwhistle, so I’m wary
Oh, I got mixed up in the comment chain, I was talking about OP
Nope, just tired of seeing it get associated with the word “based”, bc I know who came up with that association. I think you can sorta deduce my country from that lol
That’s based!
Just don’t combine that with watermelons lol or I’ll assume you’re cool with nazis (or simply oblivious). Peep the other comment, I explained it briefly.
e: I guess it doesn’t make sense outside of my country so idc that much, just wanted to know the context
But Palestine is based too.
I hate the Hitler ate sugar trope, I will appropriate Nazi memes and use them against them all I want.
It is only as evil as the user wielding them.
True, it’s a bit hard to tell sometimes though, in other contexts that is
I generally don’t believe in inborn discrimination, I don’t like punishing people for anything that does not come about as their own actions. I also had a lot of tolerance before, but it backfired. I feel that I need to be a lot more vindicative nowadays.
If i understand correctly, in Ukraine watermelons equate to nazis?
Not always, it’s the memes combining watermelons with “based” lingo, and for the most part people using them are fine, just not aware that it got started by nazis and is sometimes used as a dogwhistle
edit: you can draw a parallel to how pepe is used, only the origins and users are flipped in that case
I’m unaware of the origin, in western europe it’s a synonym of support for Palestine.
It contains the colours of the Palestinian flag 🇵🇸
Oh, gotcha
I think another bit of context is that it was used as sort of Palestinian flag stand-in emoji when there wasn’t a Palestinian flag emoji
TIL, thanks
Are you from Germany by chance? Been adopted as a symbol of Palestinian resistance and therefore labelled anti-“semetic” by certain governments