• the_kid
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    1 year ago

    it doesn't suck for you to take the high road, you're sitting in the west living a comfortable life, it's super easy for you to 'condemn' both sides and go on with your day. what are Gazans supposed to do? they're living in hell on earth, and the entire world had turned their backs on them.

    peacefully protest? they've tried that

    try to get the word out about how bad their situation is? they've tried that

    what should they have done instead? just do nothing and let Israel keep building settlements and murdering them and commit a slow genocide? I can't blame them for violently struggling in whatever means possible. even under international law, occupied populations have the right to engage in armed struggle. it sucks that it came to this, but Israel is responsible for every death that happens because they want to commit genocide against the native population rather than peacefully coexist.

      • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        "And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard."

        -Also MLK

      • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        "First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."

        Shallow understanding from people of goodwill is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."

        -MLK

          • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Yes comparable.

            Saying that Palestinian resistance is only legitimate if it meets the standard of perfect moral purity is exactly saying they should wait around and get genocided.

            And you know what? They are getting genocided, right now, at this moment, Isreal is carrying out a campaign of extermination that will make October 2023 a subject of history books for centuries to come, and the hill you've chosen to die on is that the Palestinians are also imperfect.

            Try some reading comprehension on for size btw.

            Try talking like a normal person and not a smugness overdosing reddit shithead.

            I say that occupied peoples absolutely have the right to struggle against their oppressor, just not the right to murder civilians indiscriminately.

            No occupied person cares what you say they're allowed to do, you privileged asshole. No resistance in history has ever risen to your standard anyway.