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Bonus: they start malding about Russia/Ukraine later on
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Implies four things
They believe there's a hierarchy of marginalized people
They're willing to sacrifice specific groups of people for poltical expediency
Genocide is permissible as long as only certain peoples are targeted at a time
The genocide of other groups are permissible as long as the hierarchy of oppressed people is acknowledged
First they came for the Gazans and... I supported them because I was foolish enough to think it would stop them from coming for me
I'd add
Nazism meets capitalist realism, wearing the putrefied skin of a progressive idealist
I don't even think you need to believe in hierarchy of marginalized people, all you need is to not want to see killing happen at home because it's icky up close and all of a sudden it makes a lot of sense.
Maybe I'm wrong but I came to this conclusion because it seems people don't care (or at least don't care as strongly) if LGBTQ+ people are killed in oversees conflicts, but care a lot about the idea it might happen in their country.
That misses the fact that as genocide is normalized overseas abuse of the corresponding minority at home is also normalized; historical examples include the treatment of Japanese Americans, the explosion of Islamophobia as a result of the war on terror and recently the murders of Arab Americans and that assault on camera of a student activist by a tenured professor
No, there is absolutely a hierarchy in these people's minds and it shifts depending on which minority group and their corresponding international counterparts are in disfavor by will of the ruling class
These people also reveal their cynical intentions thru their omissions of Biden's horrific and disastrous polices that target the minorities they pretend to care about; record deportations, record police funding, prosecution of activist groups, and the refusal to even acknowledge let alone act against the unprecedented conservative anti-LGBTQ+ hate campaign of the last three years
Yeah, I think I definitely agree with what you've said.
I still assert that people seem to care more about the risk of LGBTQ+ people being killed "close to home" versus them actually being killed in foreign conflicts; however I suspect the reason is probably because the ones "close to home" are white.