Used to be in awe, terror, and confusion at how genocides in history were allowed to happen.
Now I just look at it with awe and terror. Americans' responses have cured my confusion. This is how it happened. Eat up state department lines. If not that, just ignore it outright. It's not happening to us and we can't do anything about it, right? The world just works the way it works and we totally couldn't have been organizing against this for the last 100 years. Anyways, here's a cool fucking shoe model I found. Look at this recipe! "Oh the world is so messy. Time to get back to work!"
How a group of people can be so stupid, how they can apply such racist double standards, how they can be so fucking silent and cowardly. You live in the most violent and powerful empire to ever exist. Is there no drive to make things better? Are we that jaded? I swear to God the average American can't see anything but what's 10 feet and 10 minutes in front of them. If THEIR child isn't being blown up or genocided it's not on the front of their mind.
"Civilized" society my fucking ass. Bunch of barbarians. I hope the pictures and memories of the Palestinian people haunt their memories forever when the rest come around to realize what's really going on. I hope they know exactly where they would've been during past historical events: silently on the side of the oppressor.
I have never felt this disgusted with the world and my "fellow USians" (as if I even want to identify as one anymore). This is fucking pathetic.
Don't want to be "poor me I'm so disgusted" because there's obviously real things happening to real people. Just voicing this to an audience who actually gets it.
The worst part to me (and this isn’t an original opinion, I’m sure everyone here feels it) is that the people calling this the New Holocaust or whatever are never the same people who were calling out Israel for being a War Crime-oriented Apartheid State. It’s complete silence for the killings in 2014, complete silence for the Al Aqsa Mosque Raid, but when these people living under oppression and bearing witness to their own children being murdered and put in cages finally fight back, that’s when these liberals take issue. Not to mention the many Israelis killed BY ISRAEL in their efforts to kill off Hamas in crowded areas. Sickening
Yes, great point. I've almost come to the conclusion that this is no longer naiveté, just blatant apathy and racism. Maybe I'm late to the party on that.