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  • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmygrad.mltoPalestine@lemmygrad.mlStop filming!
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    11 months ago

    Whataboutism. A far cry from the claims of whataboutism when someone points out that the accusing side is guilty of the same thing, all he did was make reference to a completely unrelated conflict in a completely unrelated country while completely ignoring the original argument, the implication being “hey did you know this is happening? Well you’re a horrible person if you still care about the original thing now that I’ve brought this to your attention.” That’s literally, by definition, whataboutism.

    And he has zero cited sources mind you, you just have to trust that the guy who’s this biased toward Israel as to literally call filming their war crimes a war crime in itself, has complete, up to date, accurate, and good faith information about what’s happening in Pakistan.





  • Even completely ignoring all the history of the region and how the current State of Israel came to be and only focusing on the present in a vacuum, there is still is a glaring contradiction that I have never heard any sort of coherent answer from people who support Israel’s actions: If you truly believe that simply having a negative opinion of Israel’s actions against Palestinians is antisemitic (or simply being a Palestinian that’s still alive is antisemitic according to too many people), then surely it also holds that both Israel’s outright killing of Palestinians and their ongoing apartheid policies preventing Palestinians from existing in the same areas as Israelis is anti-Arab right? Is being anti-Arabic somehow preferable to being antisemitic? Are Arabs not human beings and do they not deserve the same rights and protection as Jews or literally any other human? What makes it okay for Israel to be anti-Arab then?

    One of the half baked arguments I have heard is that Israel is “justified” in being anti-Arabic because “it’s in self defense against Palestinians that want to kill them,” but if you make that assertion, then what makes the other side different? Israel is certainly not just attacking the Hamas and there have been more Palestinian civilian victims than Israeli civilian victims so wouldn’t you saying that also automatically imply the inverse and equally justify the Hamas’ actions against Israel? You can’t attack someone while claiming self defense and then cry foul when they defend themselves against you. Oh wait sorry that’s whataboutism isn’t it? My bad.














  • It’s how we solved the Indigenous rights problem! We just said “Hey sorry aboot that genocide eh?”

    Mind you, if they didn’t accept that we sent the RCMP in to shoot them so their land can be used for more pipelines. But that’s not authoritarian of course, because only Russians and Chinese are authoritarian. Did you know that authoritarianism is actually Latin for “Russians and Chinese”?