Iran has banned a weightlifter from sports for life and dissolved a sports committee after the athlete greeted an Israeli counterpart on a podium.
Mostafa Rajaei, a veteran weightlifter, finished second in his category in the 2023 World Master Weightlifting Championships in Poland and stood on a podium with an Iranian flag wrapped around him on Saturday.
On anther step of the podium stood Maksim Svirsky from Israel, who finished third.
The two athletes shook hands and took a picture together, which led to the Iran Weightlifting Federation banning Rajaei from all sports for life due to what it called an “unforgivable” transgression.
also can we just lose the “hexbear is so hostile for no reason” shtick. Every other instance is hostile and has its trolls, the only difference is that there are for more of us than you.
With the greatest of respect, and in my personal opinion, hexbear users have the reputation they deserve.
Lmao you only receive hostility when you’re a condescending dickhead. Every time I see people complain about hostility I just look thru their comments and - yup - they started it by writing some smug gotcha, and then instead of engaging with people arguing in good faith, they kept going down that path. Why do you think you deserve to be treated in good faith, when you yourself cannot do the same? Civility is a two-way street
I completely agree civility is a two way street. I also agree that I have started to dismiss users from hexbear apriori. I’m a very courteous person generally and I’m not happy to engage in these discussions with hexbear users (I’ve done it a few times by now and my sole purpose isn’t to convince hexbear users that I’m right, which I never could, but to convince others that Lemmy isn’t just full of “so left-wing you’ve flipped to right-wing” hexbears. In some ways I feel it’s a fight for the soul of the wider Lemmy community. I’m but a drop in that wider ocean, but I wish more people would speak up against the extreme viewpoints you generally espouse. If the tone doesn’t change, I’ll probably drop off and see myself out.
lmao, distilled full of themselves redditor right here. Muh horseshoe theory both sides enlighted centrism too.
Oh no. Please don’t go.
So you’re only courteous to people you think agree with you? Neat! You’re not courteous just because you say you are.
It’s a niche forum made by marxists lmao, stop behaving like it’s some noble fight, and if it was you’re the one corrupting “the soul” you fucking dweeb. Go outside and organize, posting isn’t praxis.
Ah yes extreme viewpoints like “people shouldn’t starve” “war is bad” and “child labour should be illegal” and “the people responsible for children working and starving and being homeless should be held responsible for these actions”. Very extreme.
You could also consider actually engaging with the arguments and learning something, but if you’re incapable of that, good, fuck off. Go back to your echo chamber on reddit.