Israelis brag about stealing from houses that they bombarded and ethnically cleansed their owners. (nitter.net)

submitted 11 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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The genocide is literally being streamed live, and people in the west continue to look the other way while western regimes keep fuelling it.

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[-] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Agree on being skeptical, not because it’s not plausible, but because we should be skeptical of the firehouse of misinformation going on right now. There’s no journalistic source attached to this, as far as I can see.

But strong disagree on the whataboutism of “name a military that hasn’t done x”, as a way to justify horrible behavior. That’s just depraved.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee -3 points 11 months ago

Saying I’m justifying something is putting your words in my mouth. Don’t gaslight, it’s beneath you.

[-] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Speaking of gaslighting! “Who hasn’t done x” is a construction whose only purpose is to minimize how horrible x is.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee -2 points 11 months ago

Nope. I’m saying they’re all trash. Equally. It’s very horrible, not to be minimized. But on that same note: I’m not as shocked as OP wants me to be. Are you?

[-] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

To say “they’re all trash” is to minimize the horrible behavior as commonplace, and the party committing it as not especially worthy of scorn. For example: “Germany shouldn’t have committed genocide, but what country hasn’t committed genocide?” This is a statement that minimizes the seriousness of genocide. It is a shitty thing to say.