He’s dehumanizing the many over the acts of a few. He’s just trying to make it easier to justify the ramping up of their genocide.
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THIS! When those in power start dehumanizing others, you know there's killing coming. Hotel Rwanda is a great history lesson on this.
It feels like a great time for everyone to take a massive chill pill.
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And the western leader support this war crime instead of stopping it.
Israel: we literally don't think people in Gaza are human
Westerners: I can't tell the difference between the two sides!
"Hah! Nice argument~ but you failed to consider that
[reverb bass boosted] Itttssss cooommpliicccaaattteeeeeddddd"
Strange, terrorist organization don't seem to pop up in countries with better human rights.
They can pop up anywhere. Terrorism occurs when extremists of any type had enough of whatever they are upset about and it pushes them over the edge. Whether it is reasonable or not. Regular people can also be pushed to do terrible things with just the right amount of propaganda and other emotional manipulation. Some people just enjoy it.
Believing it cannot happen to you too with enough pressure and lies is wrong.
You have a good point I was a bit too black and white with my comment. There definitely seems to be a correlation between size and violence of terrorist groups, and the human rights of the area they riside in.
Also totally agree that it can happen to me. Gotta acknowledge that you don't really know anything and you are pretty much always just taking someone's word for things. I believe the Earth is round, but I'm just taking people's word for it.
Out of curiosity, what results do you get when you search "US White supremacist militia"?
Those seem like terrorist organizations to me, and I think the U$ has better "human rights" than Gaza.
Better than gaza maybe, but I seriously hope that the US isn't your best example for a country with good human rights.
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You have a point. Though the US white supremesists haven't launched such organized and open assaults. So maybe it just scales with human rights abuses.
They don't need to because cops can just flat out murder people off the streets. And brownshirts are a thing too they show up at protests to harass the strikers. Also they're not under an active genocide (as much as they try to feign that they are) so there isn't a lot of violence gas to go ham with.
Reminder that everyone in this conflict besides Civilians are bad people. Hamas is a terrorist organization. The Israeli government support the genocide of the Palestinian people. Everyone else are just planning to profit from this.
Every single liberation group was considered a terrorist organization. Fuck, even Antifa gets called that and they're not even an organization.
I've always wanted to find sources of the monarchy calling American revolutionaries terrorists. Maybe that language wasn't prevalent then.
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Israel: we literally don't consider the people of Gaza to be humans
You: sheesh, I really I can't tell the difference between these two!
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What definition of "terrorist organization" are we using here?
There are non-combatants in this conflict that are bad people. They cheer on the extermination of others. Sometimes that's Hamas or the PLO (they run a fund that gives stipends to families of terrorists). Other times it's certain Israeli Jews who encourage conflict while not risking their own necks because they can claim a religious exemption from military service. They seek an Israel without Palestinian territories, or for that matter Palestinians at all (aka ethnic cleansing).
I'm not saying that non-combatants should be targeted. At the same time, I am saying that just being a civilian does not mean someone lacks blame.
In the Western country that I'm in the propaganda has been flying thick and fast all day today on every single media outlet there is about this. You can tell they're trying to justify a lot of bad things that are about to happen and have already begun.
This shitbag is a right wing fascist who would make Hitler blush with pride.
And you're a fuckface for dehumanizing people.