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- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
I’m a linguist by education. I’m used to people being startlingly wrong about language (pop coverage of the field is utterly abysmal) and when someone tries to play the “I cAn’T bE aNtIsEmItIc, I’m A sEmItE” card (to say nothing of right-wing nationalists who think their language is Perfect and the Ancestor of All Languages), I get hot and bothered.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
The Colonies revolted. And then, for good measure (/s), they terrorized everybody else.
The Bluecoats were terrorists. They had no legitimate basis to rebel against the Crown.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
I did my best to avoid Israeli sources when finding these polls for that exact reason. If you’re going to ignore the evidence I’ve given you in response to your claims, there is no further point in engaging with you.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
We never should’ve gotten into Afghanistan or Iraq.
Even the very existence of the United States was caused by an illegitimate insurgency. That we happened to win was because of attrition and logistics. I make no illusions about the dawn of my own country.
But reality is often disappointing.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Read the rest of the tweet thread.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
I’m talking about
And even Hamas claims it’s changed somewhat since the original charter.
I know people support Palestine.
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Same goes for Israel then, no?
In the broad, sure. But as everybody else seems to concern themselves with talking about Israel’s crimes, while painting the Palestinians as some helpless, repressed dove in a cage, I will leave them to the former and disprove the latter.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Fatah wins against Hamas in West Bank cities and Hamas wins in Gaza Strip cities [given a putative snap election]
To break the deadlock, 56% support popular non-violent resistance, 50% support a return to armed intifada [emphasis mine], and 48% support dissolving the PA
The largest percentage (42%) views armed struggle as the most effective means of ending the occupation
In the poll, 53% of the 1,200 Palestinians surveyed said they believed Hamas is "most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people." By contrast, just 14% said the same of Fatah.
You tell me (PDF warning):
It’s not letting me select and copy from it; read the damn thing.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Funnily enough, this has happened in the West in the last century. It was called “Vichy France” and those who rolled, les collaborateurs.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
…they have killed more civilians this past week than in either of the Intifadas.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
When you opt for war, you’re the one putting your and your children’s lives on the chopping block.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
“Strong democratic tradition”? So you’re arguing that they were too stupid to vote is what you’re saying?
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
You don’t. War is a blunt instrument. If you went door-to-door and mapped out households with different-colored thumbtacks, your enemy would take the advantage and strike at you while you worried about it.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
2006. They were judged free and fair by observers. Hamas won the majority, to the surprise of many outside the region.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
The difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist is whether they’re shooting are you.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Who do you think ran the Underground Railroad? Harriet Tubman wasn’t alone.
More to the point, the existence of anti-slavery actors in the South did not remove the basis for engaging them in battle.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that in the Third Millennium AD people will still come to the defense of terrorists, but here we are.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Not this bullshit.
“Antisemitism” as a term refers to hatred of Jews. That’s the common definition. You don’t get to hide behind your neckbeard “Well ackshyully”. Try again.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Could just as easily be rewritten “Dying Israelis criticized for not using their last words to condemn their existence”.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
I’ll believe that when I see it.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Anti Zionism ≠ Anti Semitism
In the West, maybe. For Hamas specifically…am I seriously the only one who read their charter? They cite the most notorious antisemitic hoax of all time with a straight face and their stated goal is to wipe out Israel and kill Jews.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
If they vote for candidates who support them, then yes, the body politic is responsible.
Democracy comes with responsibility.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Hamas’ charter explicitly calls for the destruction of Israel.
They don’t want a resolution.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Whites voted to support (wanted) an avowedly racist system. Whites brutalized Blacks—beating them, maiming them, raping them, killing them. War came calling.
Palestinians vote to support (want) an avowedly racist system. Palestinians are brutalizing Jews (and others who happen to be there)—beating them, maiming them, raping them, killing them. War comes calling.
In both cases, the people voted according to their views and values.
It should be noted that even after the War (and we can blame the Republicans for this, the deal that got Rutherford B. Hayes into office ended Reconstruction) these things continued. The KKK is still alive and kicking today. The Union was not without sin in this.
You don’t appease antisemites. Apparently the lesson didn’t stick last time.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
How is it a false equivalence? The Constitution literally said that Black people were 60% of a person. The South chose officials who enforced and fought tooth and nail to subjugate Blacks (Bleeding Kansas, anyone?).
The South had to go. (Or do you consider them a poor, marginalized population for what the Union did to them?)
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
And the Founding Fathers in the United States created the situation of slavery in the South as a power play. Doesn’t make the South any less culpable for their misdeeds.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Palestine is also a state (of dubious status).
They are democratic.
Their constituents chose—chose—a party of genocidal antisemites to represent them. Hamas has been transparent about their claimed “struggle against the Jews” since day one. The people seem to want this.
The last two times the West had racists in power we got a Civil War and then a World War (the second being directly antisemitic).
The world said “never again”, and then when someone tried it again, they cheered them on.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
And the Palestinians vote them in.
If White Southerners are responsible for the Civil War, the Palestinian people bear responsibility for choosing a genocidal majority.
My sympathy for the Palestinians only goes so far—it ends with their ballot box.
- Comment on lemmy.ml 1 year ago:
Palestine voted Hamas, whose founding documents are dripping with antisemitism (they cite The Protocols of the Elders of Zion which isn’t so much a dogwhistle as it is a klaxon), into power.
If you’re a democracy, you’re responsible for whom you vote in.
- Comment on What kind of upbringing makes an incel? 1 year ago:
I have autism. It is 100% a disorder.