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cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au 1 day agoI want the killing to actually stop. Not pause. Stop. Exterminating zios is the only way. Every single one. Maybe there are babies too young to have developed language who can be raised by a second cousin in new York or something, but every single one old enough to know its a zoo must be ended.
Or this keeps happening. We keep putting out little fires and letting them start their little fascist movements and doing their one-off mass killings wherever the shards end up. That’s what they are. I’m not willing to sacrifice human lives for zio lives.
stickly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can’t kill an ideology; you can’t murder fear and tribalism. Your whole righteous fury shtick is promoting dehumanization and genocide.
“Human lives for zio lives” – dude get some help. People are people. Full stop. Every person holds a spectrum of beliefs, good/evil/complicated in multiple dimensions. There are undoubtedly many sadistic evil fucks profiting from and enjoying Israel’s genocide. But, as with any cult, the vast majority have been deluded into thinking that protecting their in-group is the only option.
People who commit atrocities should be punished. People who direct and stoke the flames of genocide should be punished a thousand times more. People who directly aid in these crimes should be judged harshly. But a label, applied on something as nebulous as human thought or circumstance of association, should never be a death sentence.
cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au 1 day ago
Yes you can. Its not easy, but it can be done. Nothing stopping it from being reinvented, if the circumstances that initially gave rise to it don’t change, but you can kill an idea. Especially a stupid one.
This isn’t an ideology. Its an identity. They’re not the same.
You’ve never met a zio. You’ve never dined at the table with one. You’ve never heard the songs they teach their young. You do not know what the fuck you’re talking about. You are irresponsible, and I suspect you can only continue acting like this because you do not consider Arabs to be people.
stickly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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No you can’t. The whole world is watching. You can’t just quietly sweep millions and millions of human lives under the rug and expect everyone to nod along. Sympathy and empathy are inherent human emotions; someone will view them as martyrs, someone will feel remorse.
There is zero evidence that erasure of an idea can be accomplished by brute force. Hell, look at the attempt to wholly dismantle German martial nationalism after WW1 to see the opposite effect at play. You have to deconstruct it on multiple fronts: removal of its loudest advocates, counter messaging, education, remediate material causes, etc…
I mean… Your bright idea to combat a belief system who’s core tenet is a paranoid delusion of extermination is to validate it with attempts at an actual extermination…
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So we’re looking at a set of beliefs based around an assumption of ethno-nationalist superiority, which builds up to atrocities such as genocide. Gee whiz, it certainly sounds like zionism is an ideology to me.
Sounds like a strong belief in zionism can be a core part of someone’s identity, but a human being is a complex creature with multiple defining facets. How much of a man is the zionist, how much is the musician, how much is the doctor, how much is the father…
How do you propose to root out these zionists? Ask them politely with a gun to their head? Kill anyone with some Nth degree of relation to known zionists? Polygraphs? The Thing-style blood tests?
How many false positives are acceptable? What percent of eradication is necessary to excise the cancer? What degree of confidence do you need to ensure this mass blood letting will definitively “stop the killing”?
I have. I have. I have. I know “what the fuck I’m talking about” because this vein of hate and violence is not new and your reaction is not a novel or useful solution. I have strong connections to Arab family and friends and have had these conversations, and I know for a fact they would be ashamed to have any association with your vitriol.
Please see a therapist because these thoughts are both counterproductive and self destructive. It’s clearly an important and (probably) personal topic for you, which is all the more reason to tackle it seriously and not default to your base instincts. There are real and tangible differences you can make to improve the world and none of them start with a baseline of mass murder. It’s not a matter of “taking the high road” or “being better than them”, it’s about taking practical and realistic steps to combat the deeply rooted violence of our civilization.
cavitationfetishist01@quokk.au 1 day ago
The fascist accuses you of what they are doing so that when you accuse them they can gaslight you. Fuck off with your doing their defensive work. How many more humans will die to try and coddle zio filth?