• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Here’s my take that no one asked for.

    Most of these people do not know about the horrors going on in places like Yemen or Myanmar. And if you tell them about them, they don’t suddenly feel a need to rush out and start pressuring others for a cease fire.

    To me, this means that most don’t personally care about what’s going on in Palestine, they’ve just been told what to feel by social media which has filtered all Israel/Palestine information through a megaphone. These people flitter between one cause after another, never forming their own opinions or taking the time to view things objectively. They just wait for what the internet tells them they should feel and act on it.

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      7 months ago

      Most of these people do not know about the horrors going on in places like Yemen or Myanmar. And if you tell them about them, they don’t suddenly feel a need to rush out and start pressuring others for a cease fire.

      Countries around the world erupted in protests against Israel and in celebration of the attacks on Oct 7th before Israel even responded.

      The answer is quite simple, they hate Jews. The reason those other issues don’t elicit a reaponse boils down to no Jews no news

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      7 months ago

      Lmao the left has been trying to get the government to stop helping the Saudis in Yemen for a decade. And Myanmar was literally headline news.

      Do you know about what’s going on in Sudan right now?

      Ethiopia?

      Somalia?

      Sri Lanka?

      Tao Tao?

      The Sahel?

      Haiti?

      Mozambique?

      Democratic Republic of Congo?

      Mexico?

      Pakistan?

      Chad?

      If we have to tackle every conflict every time we want to denounce one actor in one conflict; we’re going to be here a long time.