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"If those civilians didn't want to be murdered, they shouldn't have been born part of Bad Race instead of Good Race!" - Tankie 'Wisdom'
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Welp, looks like he started the whole thing off an old comment he found. He was looking for a fight by directly going with the most controversial statement he could find.
That being said, I don't like this whole line of thinking from both sides tbh, I think its jumbling up a lot of things together.
It implies Israel is fighting Hamas in a kind of greater evil vs smaller evil scenario. It's similar to the whole "Israel is defending itself" line.
From my point of view, Israel is waging war on civilians mostly. Hamas is a non issue that can only deal the damage Israel let's them.
Terrorist groups can't be defended, but they can't be used as justification for wholesale slaughter of a civilian population either. That's the main issue that I think gets people riled up.
Thanks for the link.
That's not even the most controversial statement in the thread, man.
I would agree. I would go so far as to say that calling it war is generous. It's nothing more than a genocide. Hamas isn't much more than a cat's paw for Israeli domestic politics - which makes the defense of their targeting of civilians (something both morally abhorrent and without significant gain for the Palestinian people) all the more ridiculous. At least, ridiculous from an anti-Zionist point of view.
The main issue in the real world (thankfully). Unfortunately, on the Fediverse, there's a fairly large contingent of folk who think that ethnic cleansing is Good, Actually, if it's pointed towards Israelis.
np