The colonial situation dehumanizes the colonized and the colonizer. While the colonized are treated worse than animals, the colonizers treat themselves like gods (and, in the process, turn into monsters).
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Israel must be destroyed. From the river to the sea.
I wonder what the poll would be if a global one asked if the state of Israel should be disolved and given BACK to the Palestinians, just a random musing.
Based on global reactions, I think there will be a minority of yes and no's
Then the vast majority will be "I don't care anymore"
This is your brain on colonialism.
Survey was 1005 people. I’d be interested to know how broad the demographics were.
Either way, disgusting.
Unless they're asking the same thousand people every time, this is a good representation. I don't think I've ever seen a single poll linked that doesn't have similar numbers.
The way statistics work, 1000 people is more than adequate for a population the size of Israel. It's honestly overkill, if anything. The real question is "are the respondents a representative sample?" That is, is the way you chose who to question and how to question them introducing any systemic bias in your results? For this survey, if everyone lived in the West Bank, that would be a clear source of bias in the data. But if people are randomly selected by, say, phone number, then you would have to worry about more subtle biases before agreeing that the data is sound.
Monsters. And while the have their dog in the white house, nothing will happen to them.
When haven't they had their dog in the white house?
Nothing will happen to them because they are an integral part of US power in the region. It's not about an individual in the white house. The last president was just as loyal (if not more) the majority of the house and senate are loyal to them, even the majority of the "disloyal" elected officials are only mildly opposed to specific actions.
Sorry. I didn't mean to direct to an specific president. It applies to any US president. Trump is a bit more aggressive, but he is like this about anything.
The Zionist Entity is a dog of the Amerikkkan empire (and its most rabid one at that), not the other way around.
Israel is just begging for the world to hate Jews right now; I don't fucking get this shit we're a huge portion of these people's grandparents not Holocaust survivors?
Israel indoctrinates them from their youth that if they don't kill all the Arabs that the Arabs will kill them.
Pretty similar how Hitler told the Germans that the Jews were trying to eradicate all the white people.
antisemitism has been an important tool for the occupation regime of west palestine. it uses it to force migration to feed its frontier so it can expand and legitimise itself as a "the jewish homeland". thats why they keep collaborating with fascists all the way back to, including, and even beyond the nazis.
And the other 18% aren't against it, they want a kinder version of it
"It´s unfortunate, but we have no other choice"
The main thing we learned from the Germans was almost any onecould do unspeakable things with enough propaganda and authority pressure. Most countries did not learn and change enough to stop such an event from occurring again, they assumed it was just a fault in German culture and most of the attempt to pursue and convict Nazis ceased with most getting away with their crimes against humanity. We determined no way to deprogram Nazism.
Maybe this spin of Nazism across the globe and the horrors it is unleashing will put in place the right reaction when popularism starts lying to the public to gain votes and stop it before it becomes a movement.
They say when nazi Germany fell, the USA took the scientists,the soviets all the industrial infrastructure. The Zionist looked around saw nothing left so picked up mein kampf.
Fucking sickening
The more I read about humans, the less I identify with them.
Zionists aren't human.
Trying to define political enemies as not human is literal Nazi shit, do better.
I ultimately agree with the premise, which is why under any other context I don't focus on Zionists humanity, but their actions and ideology, but this was a quick, slightly snarky, reply to someone saying Zionists make him lose faith in humanity.
A better way to have phrased it would have been "Zionists don't represent humanity".
But also, I don't think a negative comment online about the modern day Nazis being inhuman due to their ideology which denies basic human values is akin to the systemic dehumanization Nazis performed from a position of almost absolute power on innocent groups who weren't conducting a heinous genocide.
Nazis dehumanized vulnerable groups in a genocidal effort. My words are specifically towards denouncing the followers of Zionist ideology for enaging in those same genocidal efforts.
Again, your intentions are absolutely valid but I don't think the whole "this is literal Nazi shit, do better" is necessary and on some level actually lessens the harm of what Nazis actually did, similar to how my comment accidentally leaned into their rhetoric.
I can agree with "Zionists don't represent humanity".
I take your point that dehumanization by itself is a tiny part of what the Nazis did, it isn't unique to them, and that the surrounding power dynamics are important. My comment was a "quick, slightly snarky" reply 😉
I do think that dehumanization is a dangerous tactic because, while it might have been a small part of the Nazi regime's actions, it seems like it was crucial in order for them to get social & moral licence for a lot of the rest of their actions (as happened during the development of racism, and is now happening against migrants).
And, while recognizing that not every Zionist is Jewish, the amount of antisemitism that still exists (and the sad number of people who just swap out "jews" for "zionists" to get cover to keep pushing the same antisemitic conspiracy theories) does seem to add up to a bit of "vulnerability" as you put it, which seems to add to the danger of dehumanization.
I want to believe this, but an article on a site I've never heard of which provides zero sources is not really enough to be trustworthy
Israelis are true monsters. It makes me sick to be on the same planet as these scum. What a failure of humanity that such a sick society was able to fester.