New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles

Re:New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock s... by huevosabio on Thursday June 19, 2025 @01:47AM (#44315818)

On that one (and many of the Israel-related ones) I think the problem is that it implicitly assumes that because you do, you do it because of antisemitism.

But I could have double standards for all type of countries! I tend to hold the US at a higher standard than most countries for almost anything, and I think everyone holds Germany to a much higher standards with respect to minority rights (particularly, Jews) than other countries.

I think people overindex on Israel as "the only Jewish state", and less as "just another country". I wish we could entirely separate the identity of the Jewish people and the state of Israel at least in the discourse. It would make everything healthier.

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Re:New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock s... by birn559 on Thursday June 19, 2025 @02:17AM (#44315948)

All of the mentioned bullet points could be applied to other countries.

While I think there's quite a lot of antisemitism out there, I find it questionable trying to deduce antisemitism. Explicitly expressed antisemitism itself is something else. I also find it very questionable to redefine the term that it includes deductions.

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Re:New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock s... by dlubarov on Thursday June 19, 2025 @11:27AM (#44319584)

If there's some universal principle underlying your treatment of the US, I wouldn't really call that a double standard, assuming the principle is based on things like economic or military capabilities and not race, national identity, etc.

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