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[–] Daxter101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Seeing this little interaction here, and your long historical explanation comment below, even though it was two days ago, I just wanted to tell you.

I've been in your position before, and wanting to inform clueless people of the opposing ideology, is a good thing to aspire to, and it's good to try in many other cases.

However this specific person you're responding to, is not clueless, and their opinion isn't what it is because of lack of knowledge.

Their comment, was textbook D.A.R.V.O. (Wikipedia link, see if you can track the exact sentences for each step lol), followed by the simplest moral grandstanding.

It's exactly the comment a propaganda bot would make, and, while I don't think this person is an actual bot, the very core of what they're (probably thoughtlessly) writing, is 100% ideologically coherent and pure and intentional:

"If it was not the Israelis, it would be the Arabs."

This means they can strictly, only believe in one of the two following things:

  1. Either "Israelis" and "Arabs" (funny racist equivalence lol) are the same, and it's human nature to genocide without cause, which is why the Israelis have to currently genocide first as self defense to prevent something that hasn't happened, or

  2. "Arabs" "genociding" Israelis would happen with cause (I wonder what that cause would be), and prevention of that "genocide" is morally acceptable and neutral (therefore the causes of that enmity, are not deplorable (read: the current ongoing genocide is not morally deplorable))

This is not a clueless perspective. It is the, textbook, fascist ideological perspective.

One can never "stumble" into this opinion, whether a refined and experienced apologist, or just intuitively picking up the most useful and most defensible-sounding argument, that really represents their opinion, without understanding that opinion.

That's a fascist.