Some comments here on hexbear feel so....white liberal. Like the post that mentioned unlimited genocide on IDF soldiers and the comments turned into an argument about how we shouldn't wish for genocide too, even as a joke, because it's bad and we're better than that. Or saw a comment in a different thread saying we shouldn't call people with anti-society beliefs(like "every man for themselves" thinking and we shouldn't improve society views) animals because it could lead to dangerous outcomes.
We are living through an actual genocide of Palestinians. They have no army and are fighting for their lives TODAY against a highly funded army backed by the us. But y'all wanna argue that it's bad to say every IDF soldier should be killed?? Make it make sense, white people confuse me. This "turn the other cheek" bs will only protect aggressors. If we had killed more slave owners, we'd be in a better world. If we had killed more nazis, we'd be in a better world. Everyone else goes to re-education camps before they can be released into society.
I guess growing up with white washed or white pacifist characters being seen as good does that, all western propaganda and media has the part where the marginalized have to be pacifists or be kind to their oppressor or else they're worse, it's in cartoons movies games textbooks, stuff that gets carved into their head.
If god forbid, I ever have children, I will teach them not to turn the other cheek; that striving for vengeance is admissible within certain bounds, and to never spend more than what one has on chasing it
Not sure if it was the same thread, but there was the one where the OP was talking about how they thought some protest organizers were feds for saying they support Hamas and wishing for more Oct 7ths to happen to Israel. But I admittedly had a bit of a lib moment when I said that they're probably trying to more negative attention to the protests. I kind of missed the struggle session that developed in the thread, but I read through some of it and I did some introspection. Especially after I was walked outside and saw how "Free Palestine" and other fairly general Pro-Palestine posters and stickers had been torn off of poles and wall or had pro-Israel and stop antisemitism stickers put over them. There's people who already think that just believing that Palestinians deserve to exist and exist in their homeland with out the an oppressive apartheid state think that this is antisemitism, why should I care about optics at this point? So, yeah. I was wrong and I'm mad at myself for even thinking like that.
I think it's important to challenge your ideas and change your mind. It means you're always self reflecting and applying learned principles to real events. So it's good you got to the right conclusions. When Palestinians are actively being killed, it doesn't matter what we hypothetically say about the IDF.
Some comments here on hexbear feel so....white liberal. Like the post that mentioned unlimited genocide on IDF soldiers and the comments turned into an argument about how we shouldn't wish for genocide too, even as a joke, because it's bad and we're better than that. Or saw a comment in a different thread saying we shouldn't call people with anti-society beliefs(like "every man for themselves" thinking and we shouldn't improve society views) animals because it could lead to dangerous outcomes.
We are living through an actual genocide of Palestinians. They have no army and are fighting for their lives TODAY against a highly funded army backed by the us. But y'all wanna argue that it's bad to say every IDF soldier should be killed?? Make it make sense, white people confuse me. This "turn the other cheek" bs will only protect aggressors. If we had killed more slave owners, we'd be in a better world. If we had killed more nazis, we'd be in a better world. Everyone else goes to re-education camps before they can be released into society.
Every IDF soldier should be killed and then some.
There, I said it.
I guess growing up with white washed or white pacifist characters being seen as good does that, all western propaganda and media has the part where the marginalized have to be pacifists or be kind to their oppressor or else they're worse, it's in cartoons movies games textbooks, stuff that gets carved into their head.
If god forbid, I ever have children, I will teach them not to turn the other cheek; that striving for vengeance is admissible within certain bounds, and to never spend more than what one has on chasing it
Eye to an Eye
Not sure if it was the same thread, but there was the one where the OP was talking about how they thought some protest organizers were feds for saying they support Hamas and wishing for more Oct 7ths to happen to Israel. But I admittedly had a bit of a lib moment when I said that they're probably trying to more negative attention to the protests. I kind of missed the struggle session that developed in the thread, but I read through some of it and I did some introspection. Especially after I was walked outside and saw how "Free Palestine" and other fairly general Pro-Palestine posters and stickers had been torn off of poles and wall or had pro-Israel and stop antisemitism stickers put over them. There's people who already think that just believing that Palestinians deserve to exist and exist in their homeland with out the an oppressive apartheid state think that this is antisemitism, why should I care about optics at this point? So, yeah. I was wrong and I'm mad at myself for even thinking like that.
I think it's important to challenge your ideas and change your mind. It means you're always self reflecting and applying learned principles to real events. So it's good you got to the right conclusions. When Palestinians are actively being killed, it doesn't matter what we hypothetically say about the IDF.