I got banned in a community for calling out a tankie who for tacitly supporting October 7 and calling him a terrorist because of it. Israel’s disproportionate response by killing civilians does not make October 7 better. I got banned for calling a spade, a spade, but allow doublespeak if it favours their biases.
You don’t blame a kicked dog for biting. That’s not a tankie opinion, it was everywhere a year ago.
ETA: Hell, I just remembered that I dropped that line during a first date in February and got an “Exactly!” in response.
We aren’t talking about dogs here, neither are we talking about biting. We are talking about humans making the deliberate choices to kill, rape, abduct, and torture other humans. You do blame people for murder, no matter why they did it. Doesn’t mean Israel doesn’t do evil shit and their policy towards Palestinians isn’t disgusting, but it doesn’t justify murder, rape, a d torture. That doesn’t mean that Israel should not be pressured to stop some of their policies and operations which are openly in defiance of international humanitarian law, not justified by need, unnecessarily and unjustified brutal, and against common decency. To claim that the actions of either side are forced upon them by necessity or somehow dictated as response is to deny their humanity, their agency as individuals and political entities, and their right to self-determination. Neither of them is justified on their actions and all of them are committing grave, non justifiable, unnecessary, and self defeating evil.
Finally, someone gets it.
There is a reason that the most centrist position on the Palestine-Israel issue is two state solution.
Lmao why is this extremely reasonable comment being downvoted? Some pieces of shit in this thread.
Human beings aren’t dogs.
true and irrelevant
Quite relevant. As being angry is not an excuse for a human being to kill innocents. Humans have rights, including those innocents who were killed.
