Was reading a university sub-reddit-logo and I saw the same two hypocrisy gotcha responses from chuds.

1 ) These protesters should go live in Gaza since they keep complaining. I don't see the logic here? The protesters don't like the place getting bombed so they should go to that place and experience the bombing themselves? If anything shouldn't it be the opposite? That people who think current treatment of Gazans is justified should go experience Gaza for themselves to walk a mile in their shoes? Now that I think about it, maybe the logic behind the gotcha is that alternative left-wing types would not be accepted in a socially conservative muslim country? Even if that were true, still doesn't mean kids from there should get bombed.

2 ) The protesters are against the walls and checkpoints encircling Gaza from, yet the protesters have barricaded their encampment with a plastic sheath so they can control who comes in and out. So are the chuds here saying they're against all barricades including the Gaza one? Or are they saying they agree all barricades are bad? Or just hypocrisy in and of itself is bad? Denouncing the wall is fine, as long you stay consistent and also don't use a plastic barricade yourself? How are these things even being equated in the first place? Oh you're against the Berlin Wall yet your apartment complex has a fence behind the dumpsters. You're a hypocrite which is the real crime here.

Anyway I know I'm preaching to the choir. How do you all deal with braindead smug gotchas? I guess it's time to touch grass?

  • T34_69 [none/use name]
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    7 months ago

    You can still get that garbage shouted at you when you go touch grass, it'll come in the form of some coward shouting nonsense from his clean white pickup truck as he speeds away from you. Or in the form of some Karen coming up to your barricade and demanding to speak to the protest's manager. The pudding-headed gotchas are just another common part of the ambient American fascism at this point.

    • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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      7 months ago

      Or in the form of some Karen coming up to your barricade and demanding to speak to the protest's manager.

      I've gotten a lot of mileage out of a sarcastic "Would you like to speak to the manager, Karen?" in casual IRL conversations with that type. It's especially effective when "Karen" is a man.