28
How to talk to Israel supporters
(www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk)
A community to discuss everything Palestine.
Posts can be in Arabic or English.
Please add a flair in the title of every post. Example: “[News] Israel annexes the West Bank ”, “[Culture] Musakhan is the nicest food in the world!”, “[Question] How many Palestinians live in Jordan?”
List of flairs: [News] [Culture] [Discussion] [Question] [Request] [Guide]
it's deference, not tolerance and those people have unknowingly ingested propaganda since birth, so they're unaware that it's bigotry. also: that propaganda has put them in a false reality and that reality is reaffirmed daily by an overwhelming majority of americans so it seems like reality if they never leave that bubble; most americans don't even bother to leave the country much less anything else.
they know that people who actually live in reality exist; but that propaganda paints those people as boogeymen so any attempts to create a discourse with them has to take these preconceived notions into account; because that discourse is not going to anywhere if you don't and the zionist will go back to that false reality where it'll be reaffirmed.
it's worth the bother because; like in the lemmyverse; they're an overwhelming majority with the numbers necessary to exert their unconscious bigotry onto society using the ballot box and the law (defederation in lemmy) where it can stay enforced for decades/centuries and diminish/reverse progress for generations. no white supremacist groups nor the KKK enjoy the popular support and finances to do that anymore, but the isrealis can, did, and do; hence the deference.
i'd like to think that this is true.
my ancestors were genocided out of existence this in this country 100 years or so ago and i think that they would find this situation extremely familiar; especially in regards to gaza; and this comes after decades worth of the "trail of tears" paragraph in american history books.
i think that today's public opinion is manufactured like consent is; how else can something like a genocide be treated the way it is when we should know better after doing so many and advocated against it for so long?