cross-posted, via Microblogs Community.
Stop trying to make simple things sound complex – either because you like hearing the sound of your own voice or because of whatever insecurities drive you. If I’m kicking a puppy in the street, it’s because I’m an asshole. You don’t need to know my motivations. You just need to know I’m an asshole. And stop me.
Yes, this is about Israel.
I used the example of the puppy getting kicked as I’m painfully aware that, at least for some people, the thought of a puppy in distress is unbearable whereas tens of thousands of murdered Brown kids is just another Wednesday. (You’d have a hard time getting a politician who regularly kicks puppies to death elected but folks who consider themselves otherwise decent have not, so far at least, had an issue with voting for people who fund and arm Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.)
Out of curiosity, what nuance and careful consideration should we take when we see a state bombing and killing tens of thousands of civilians, included kids?
Or when another state bombs a school full of girls?
Are we also going to “carefully consider” the holocaust?
I think we can say there are actions that can be considered universally evil, and both bombing a school full of children and an ethnical cleanse are, to my careful consideration, evil.