Democratic socialist politicians like Cori Bush and Rashida Tlaib are right about the violence in Israel and Palestine: we should both be mourning civilian deaths and calling for an end to the Israeli occupation.
I’ve even seen some people try claiming that the attack didn’t happen and Israel must have fabricated it. My first thought was, “Really? We’re going to ‘Alex Jones/Sandy Hook’ this?”
You can both want Palestinians to be treated fairly and be against Israeli citizens (among others) being slaughtered. Saying “Hamas was wrong to do this” doesn’t mean you’re saying “Israel is blameless in this situation.”
Sadly, way too many people need there to be a Good Guy Who Never Does Wrong and a Bad Guy Who Never Does Right.
I hope someday, at a minimum, some really impactful social science comes from the timeframe we are experiencing right now.
I’m just constantly baffled by people’s capacity for evil, in the name of a good. Also, people’s willingness to intentionally share delusions with people they unquestionably believe in, frightens the hell out of me. There is a very obvious a conscious choice happening when people are choosing to accept lies as truth.
As horrific as it all continues to be, its also fucking really morbidly fascinating. I remember being a little boy and reading about the horrors of the Holocaust, and failing completely to wrap my mind around how an entire Society could allow things to escalate that way. I want to be somebody who says they still don’t understand it, but I can’t. Because it’s happening right here in front of me, and I see why and how. And I hate it.
I’ve even seen some people try claiming that the attack didn’t happen and Israel must have fabricated it. My first thought was, “Really? We’re going to ‘Alex Jones/Sandy Hook’ this?”
You can both want Palestinians to be treated fairly and be against Israeli citizens (among others) being slaughtered. Saying “Hamas was wrong to do this” doesn’t mean you’re saying “Israel is blameless in this situation.”
Sadly, way too many people need there to be a Good Guy Who Never Does Wrong and a Bad Guy Who Never Does Right.
I hope someday, at a minimum, some really impactful social science comes from the timeframe we are experiencing right now.
I’m just constantly baffled by people’s capacity for evil, in the name of a good. Also, people’s willingness to intentionally share delusions with people they unquestionably believe in, frightens the hell out of me. There is a very obvious a conscious choice happening when people are choosing to accept lies as truth.
As horrific as it all continues to be, its also fucking really morbidly fascinating. I remember being a little boy and reading about the horrors of the Holocaust, and failing completely to wrap my mind around how an entire Society could allow things to escalate that way. I want to be somebody who says they still don’t understand it, but I can’t. Because it’s happening right here in front of me, and I see why and how. And I hate it.
I don’t want Palestinians to be treated fairly, I want an end to the genocide that Israel is perpetrating.
That’d be a lot of fuckin’ crisis actors.
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