Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months agoMy point is that that is bad, it obscures reality and leads to incorrect conclusions.
Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months agoMy point is that that is bad, it obscures reality and leads to incorrect conclusions.
guy@piefed.social 2 months ago
Incorrect conclusions about bad actions being bad no matter who does it?
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Bad actions have different intensities and scales. Such equal condemnation for unequal evil leads to people who refuse to take a Pro-Palestinian stance, which implicitly sides with Israel as the stronger force.
guy@piefed.social 2 months ago
The whole point is to condemn evil whatever the intensity, scale or who is responsible.
But somehow it always comes to a comparison of evilness (obviously always the US) which somehow excuses (mostly Chinese or Russian) atrocities. And that is the issue.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I just showed you the consequence of your framing, correct? The goal isn’t to excuse anything, but to come to correct conclusions. Your line of thinking supports the genocide of Palestinians, because it becomes a toothless “both sides bad,” resulting in “continue the course.” It’s the equivalent of coming out and saying “cancer is bad,” it doesn’t change anything.