• goat@sh.itjust.worksOPMEnglish
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    6 个月前

    uhhhhh… saying death to any country or group is inherently violent and extremist.

    • Klear@quokk.auEnglish
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      6 个月前

      What gave me pause was this

      Calling for the destruction of Israel must obviously mean you want to kill every last man, woman and child, rather than simply wanting to overthrow Netanyahu’s genocidal fascist regime. Because [bad faith] reasons.

    • Emopunker@feddit.orgEnglish
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      6 个月前

      I told them that it is not good to wish death on Israel or Palestine. Just because shitty people are in power, doesn’t mean the populace has to suffer because of it. It doesn’t matter which side.

    • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
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      6 个月前

      Travel writer Rick Steves recorded a taxi driver in Tehran exclaiming “Death to traffic!” in English, explaining that “when something frustrates us and we have no control over it, this is what we say”. Steves compares the phrase to non-literal use of the word damn in American English.

      There’s definitely a cultural translation issue here

      • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        6 个月前

        Tehranian’s talking about death to inanimate abstractions that must be interpreted figuratively have an excuse that competent English writers who understand coherent literal meanings do not. We don’t use “death to” this way: the right word is “fuck”, eg, “fuck traffic!”, “fuck Israel!”.