# Bad Moderation in "Hamas Attacks Israel" MPSIMS thread

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> [@DrDeth](#):
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> I mean, calling your post anti semitic might not be

Like the idiotic “call the post racist, not the poster” rule, that’s a distinction without real difference.

> [@DrDeth](#):
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> calling _you_ one

Not with the precise word “antisemite”. But the intent is always clear, as in posts like this one:

> [@The creation of Israel was not a colonial project](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-creation-of-israel-was-not-a-colonial-project/991967/207):
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> Claims that Israel is a “colonial project” or some sort of artificial construct of the post-WWII British Empire are nothing more than attempts to de-legitimize the Jewish state by radical Islamic fundamentalist and their antisemitic leftist supporters in order to justify further atrocities.

in a thread where I was one of the posters doing exactly that. I’m not a radical Islamic fundamentalist, so that would make me a…?

> [@DrDeth](#):
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> Speaking of a term that has been overused- _genocide._

Not going to get into another one of these hijacks.  
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