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"We want to live, both in the homeland, and everywhere else we may go, and that means you have no right to use our dead to let the ones who would kill us here too into power." (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/bestoflemmy

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How would I feel about people who are not LBGT+ but claim to care deeply and powerfully about them, so much so that they're advocating for Mike Pence to be in charge of the country, because Biden was okay with "Don't Ask Don't Tell" back in the 1990s and so clearly he's just as bad (or whatever the argument is)?

How would I feel about an LBGT+ person speaking up, in that situation, saying hey please don't do that, I don't like it at all, that actually will make me unsafe in a terrifying way? I would feel like, hey I think I should amplify that person's voice on the issue.

And so, that's why we're here in this post. Hello! Good to meet you.

[+] distantsounds -6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Cool, now what about people speaking up about an active genocide? Isn’t genocide worse? I’m sure the families dying feel rather unsafe…

I doubt either the victims of either (LGBT+ and Palestinians) aren’t wishing away outside support

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, you can either understand the plain and simple English of what the Palestinian person said that I then linked to, or you can't. If you can't, then it's probably not my place to try to break it down for you, and my effort to do regardless hasn't been working anyway.

So, good luck with your political advocacy. Cheers.

[–] distantsounds -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Oh please, none of that tracks. You mean the unverifiable single Palestinian?

Good luck with your gymnastics and propaganda

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Giving criticism and resistance to the genocide I'm very in favor of; maybe that wasn't clear so far. Taking the leap into "and that's why we don't need to keep Trump out of power anymore" is the only portion of it that starts to confuse and alarm me.

To your point - can we verify that all of the people saying it's very important not to vote, for the sake of the Palestinian people, are being genuine about where they live and their background and motivations?

'Cause I have some questions about some of that shit, if we're doin' verifying.