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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes
 

"I Ain't Reading All That; Free Palestine"

The meme enrages Israel supporters because Israel apologia depends on mountains of verbiage to spin obvious atrocities as reasonable and appropriate. At some point the kids noticed this was happening, and started dismissing all the narratives.

...Without mountains of narrative, all you’ve got is a nonstop deluge of raw video footage depicting the blatant genocidal criminality of Israel. No narrative overlay is required atop a video of a baby beheaded by Israeli military explosives. It stands on its own. You’d only need narrative to explain why the footage of the headless baby doesn’t say bad things about the side that’s dropping the bombs.

..Manipulators understand that they can use narrative to promote material agendas if they can get people to believe those narratives, and it enrages them when people handwave away the narrative and stick solely with the raw data of material reality. If you’ve based your life around trading empty narrative fluff for real material resources and gains, having your narratives dismissed can feel like holding a huge pile of currency that suddenly got devalued to zero. Of course the manipulators would be upset about this.

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[–] HeyMrDeadMan 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Legit question, if I don't believe in 'Free Palestine', but I do believe in 'Fuck Isreal', am I an ally or an asshole?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

You'd have to expand on that

[–] Wogi 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why should Palestine not be free?

[–] deltapi 2 points 2 weeks ago

Both, but that's okay too. Let's grab a beer sometime.