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I literally can't think of a single person I've seen on Lemmy who doesn't care about what's happening in Palestine or doesn't think it is a horrifying genocide.
I have seen a bunch of people say, the point is the genocide under Trump will be much much worse, and our options for this short term are Trump or Biden, so I'm picking Biden. That is an anti-genocide view, not a pro.
You can say that's a tactical error and they should withhold support until Biden starts doing better. Sure, that makes sense. Or, you can say a few other things to pick holes in that viewpoint in some other way. Sure, makes sense. But building this fantasy world where there are all these people around who are okay with what's happening in Palestine is, I think, more or less just a way of assigning cartoonish views to people who don't agree with you because that's easier than engaging with what they're actually saying.
One might note that the general opinion at the start was very much "both sides" on Lemmy. Until people woke up to the fact that Israel doesn't seem to think Hamas members and Palestinians are different things.
Hm... I looked over this thread.
I do, actually, in a literal sense see some people pointing out that "both sides," i.e. that Hamas also committed a monstrous crime (which they did). E.g.:
IDK, I can maybe see the case that as Hamas's crime faded further and further into the background it stopped being part of the conversation whereas it had been before. But there's an overwhelming consensus even in that early thread that the main thing is Israel should stop killing innocent people and stealing land.