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SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 11 hours agoAre you against the genocide that Hamas committed on October 7, or do you deny that it was a genocide?
Comment on Current events dictate that I post this.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 11 hours agoAre you against the genocide that Hamas committed on October 7, or do you deny that it was a genocide?
MTZ@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Of course, I am against violence in all cases. It was, by definition, not at all a genocide in any way. It was terrorism.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
It was a massacre of every Jew they could find and couldn’t carry back to their dungeons. Why do you deny that it was genocide?
It seems you’re very selective about what you label a genocide. What criteria do you use?
MTZ@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Nope, by the definition, it was absolutely 100% NOT genocide.
What are YOUR feelings about the real, actual genocide of Palestinians in Gaza/West Bank that has been ongoing for decades?
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 7 hours ago
You’re a genocide denier then.
You don’t care about genocide, so long as it’s the people you hate being killed.
I actually do think what happened on October 7 was a genocidal act. The people that deny it are actually disgusting to me. You look the other way when Jews are massacred because you’re antisemitic. A war targeting the perpetrators of a genocidal act, that’s what you label as genocide instead.
You bought into the bullshit about Hamas being freedom fighters. When they committed a genocidal act, you’re too narcissistic to admit you were wrong to ever support them. So you needed to “both sides” actual fucking genocide. You’ve weaponized the word genocide. You don’t care when actual genocide occurs in Sudan. You look the other way when the Ayatollah butchers over 30,000 people in a span of 48 hours. If someone hates Israel they’re your ally and you’ll look the other way on any atrocity they commit.
If you actually cared about Palestinians, you’d hate Hamas. They’ve only ever made things worse for the Palestinian people. But you look the other way when Hamas tortures and executes Palestinians. You’ll look the other way on any atrocity, as long it’s done by those who hate Israel. If Hamas survives, another generation of Palestinians may be indoctrinated into their system of hate and sent into the meat grinder so Hamas can profit. You don’t care about Palestinians if you make excuses for Hamas.
If you were to admit that Hamas committed a genocidal act on October 7, then maybe I could think “this person applies the word genocide way more easily than I would.” But you don’t. You do not consider deliberately massacring women and children to be genocide so long as those women and children are Jews. That’s antisemitism.
This isn’t the first time antisemitism has been popular. You’re not the first one that just went along to get along. Look in a history book you’ll find many examples of people rationalizing their hatred towards Jews. You’re not the first ones to come up with a different term for Jews so you could deny being antisemitic. “Rootless cosmopolitan”, “Globalist”, “Zionist”, it’s all the same scam decade after decade. And you fell for it.
The Jews outlived the Nazis. They will outlive you. Iran’s propaganda machine is getting shut down. How long will you continue to be angry that the Jews outlived the people trying to kill them? You kind of get a pass for being upset when you’re seeing imagery being put in front of you by a propaganda machine. But if you continue to hate Jews (even if you’re careful to always use the word Zionist, that’s obvious bullshit) after the propaganda machine is shut down, you’ll be in some very bad company, historically speaking. There’s signs the “anti-zionist” movement will be folded into the post-Trump fascist movement. How far are you going to go down this dark path you’re on?