"Both sides are the same" people in Lemmy ๐
"Both sides are the same" people in Lemmy ๐
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2320476
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2320475
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If it wasnโt for where this was posted, I wouldnโt have been able to decrypt which side you think have done the worst atrocities.
I guess Iโm a liberal by western standards and I think the acts by Hamas and the acts by Israeli armed forces are both crimes against everything good in the world and I see no point in comparing them. Israel and the UN bears the responsibility for the conflict to begin with, but that turns into a non issue as soon as innocent civilians gets hurt.
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The larger context is important. One side forced the other one out of their homes at gunpoint. One side put the other one in a cage. One side is the oppressor and the other is the victim. Both sides using violence doesn't change that.
Edit: Also keep in mind that your perception of the atrocities is filtered through Western media, which has a clear stake. Even the smartest leftists are still unlearning propaganda.
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Literally the meme ๐
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There are no civilians in a settler-colonial project
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Colonial settlers stealing land from indigenous populations and participating in ethnic cleansing are NOT "innocent civilians". They are free to leave the war zone they created anytime they like. For Palestinians, this is homeland defense.
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If I broke into your house, chained you up in the basement for years feeding you only rats and gruel, and lived in your house with my family, would you want me dead? If you broke out and killed me and my family, that would be understandable to do, right?
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Um i have a toddler's understanding of history and
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Libs keep hanging on to one festival in which people were killed while Israel killed more civilians before the festival and already after it. I know it's not a race of who kills the most, but still.
This whole thing just shows that libs and even other leftists would side with the oppressor in a heartbeat. Haiti and Algeria? Well the French must be able to defend themselves! Indonesia? Those poor Dutch colonisers!