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In reply to the discussion: The left needs to handle its antisemitism problem - Now. [View all]Avalon Sparks
(2,747 posts)society says opposing a genocide is a far more egregious offense than committing one.
Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than some privileged Ivy Leaguers pretending to feel unsafe or unwelcome on campus.
Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than whatever youre pretending to believe From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free means.
Stopping the slaughter in Gaza is more important than making sure everyone says all the right words and condemns Hamas with sufficient fervor.
It is a symptom of the cancerousness of western civilization that there are people living their whole lives under the entirely unquestioned assumption that their feelings are so important that it is fine and normal to expect that a limitless number of impoverished foreigners may be killed without any opposition whatsoever in order to promote the interests of their favorite ethnostate, and that anyone who does oppose it is persecuting them.
It is a symptom of how diseased our entire society has become that people are so narcissistic that they now perceive protests against genocide on university campuses as a direct attack against them and their identity, and will use any amount of spin and mental contortion to make this seem true.
Peoples feelings should be uncomfortable when a genocide is happening.
None of us should be feeling comfortable with any of this. We should be feeling very, very uncomfortable, and letting that discomfort drive us to end this nightmare forever.