Western ML: "people only care about the palestinian genocide because they used to be religious"
all of this because a palestinian said the unforgivable take of "maybe china shouldnt trade with israel"
This whole narrative about people only caring about the Palestinian genocide and not caring about other genocides is really fuckin frustrating.
The Brunch Effect suppresses liberal involvement in action during Democrat presidencies and you see more pictures on social media now that social media exists...
But whatabout homeless veterans, genocide edition
Its bullshit cause these people do not care about those other genocides either. Its just used as gross rhetoric to talk down people speaking against the genocide in palestine.
As someone raised in a non-religious household: from the river to the sea.
Lmao this person is deeply unserious. Filed under "Goober"
I mean, it is a matter of apocalyptic significance
Fucking evangelicals want Israel because they think Jesus won't come back unless it's there for the Antichrist to blow up
The same evangelicals who currently hold major sway in the US government
It's not hard to put two and two together to see how it's a significant factor in foreign policy
Jesus freaks get to fulfill their prophecy, the opportunistic ghouls get to kill people and take their stuff
Exactly, this iSSrael apocalypse cult is specifically an amerikkkan evangelical thing. It simply does not exist for Catholics, mainline Protestant, or other religions AFAIK. Outside of North America it'd be rightly considered to be a mental illness. The Zionists have their own fascist derangement but it's mostly secular, if they don't get to dominate the region they'll just nuke everyone.
This is such bs argumentation. The whole point of critical support is the fact that you can, for example, criticize Chinese leadership for what (in my view) seems like a series of callous economic and diplomatic calculations that put Chinese stability and development of productive forces over international solidarity and fighting against apartheid and genocide.
I'm not even particularly affected by China's foreign policy (in)actions, and I feel this way. I imagine someone who sees it collaborate with the perpetrators of their suffering would have even more reasons to withhold unconditional support. Does it mean I don't support China at all, or don't recognize its role as one of the few nations who can contribute to a better, fairer world? No.
Ignoring entirely the most obvious conclusion that it's because Israel is a "western" ally and is being directly and publicly supported by the US, which is the global cultural and military hegemon. Therefore people in the US and its allies are more aware of Israeli crimes compared to other countries. If other ethnic cleansings received the same amount of media coverage and had the same US backing, I'm willing to bet they would also lead to support by "the left".
That's a pile of bullshit
The comments on Xiahongshu (rednote app) suggest to me that Chinese netizens are equally disgusted with Israel as western leftists
True but I've been told RedNote is sort of the trendy hip young progressive App in China. gauging Chinese public opinion from it is like trying to gauge American public opinion from tumblr.
True and I don't think anyone is suggesting their government to do anything anyway. But some people there are disgusted and it has nothing to do with religion, and they are also expressing joy at videos of Iranian strikes. Maybe the normal Chinese folk aren't paying as much attention