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[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 50 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

You can’t hide genocide or war crimes like you used to be able to before the internet.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 11 points 12 hours ago

Sure you can! It just has to be in Africa.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 42 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Analyst: This is either a magic wave of antisemitism, or a reasonable response to Israel's actions.

Anchor: So you're saying a Muslim used one of their genies?

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 29 points 13 hours ago

Almost impressive how he managed to get through several minutes of describing the shift in position not only without mentioning genocide but without even referencing the conflict

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Americans love turning the Middle East into a game with teams, good guys and bad guys, black and white, like a real live version of risk. Americans think they own the world and they should fix it, instead of fixing their own dumpster fire

Edit: those down voting should know im an indigenous brown Latino whose country was raped by the US, the same one who is now rounding up my people into camps. This is why I say fix your shit. It’s easier to criticize the genocide across the world instead of stopping the one your country is revving up. It’s also easier to downvoted and rant to an indigenous person about colonialism without a hint of self awareness of the hypocrisy

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

There is no gray area in whether anyone approves of the American genocide of Native Americans in order to make room for their colonial expansion.

There is gray area in whether anyone approves of the genocide of Australia's, or Canada's, indigenous peoples in order to make room for their colonial expansion.

These actions were fundamentally, morally wrong. The wholesale theft of Palestinian land is fundamentally, morally wrong. Your attempt to denigrate this Holocaust as an issue of rooting between teams is an indelible stain on your soul.

I hope that one day even you can recognize that the wholesale slaughter of a people and its culture is not the same as a team sport.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

I’m an indigenous Latino, your white ass wants to keep moralizing to me about genocide or do you want to stop the one your people are currently committing against mine? Or is it easier to make noise about Israel so you don’t have to hear our screams.

Or is there a number of us that need to die before you care and call it a Holocaust? I’m 67% pipil Mayan Aztec, did we get genocided or does it not count to you cause Instagram didn’t make videos about it? My point is that if you guys cared as much as you claimed, you’d be stopping the one at home, but you’re not