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What should we do about whataboutism? It seems to be a popular alternative to engagement.
Like the what aboutism associated with distracting the electorate from every other issue on the ticket to focus solely on Gaza?
Like that what aboutism?
How is it what aboutism to confront the people most concerned about Genocide with another Genocide getting zero attention? I detect hypocrisy and this whole adversarial discussion we are having now is only proof of its existence.
Edit: How about this one? How does me commenting about another Genocide; which is seemingly forgotten by most gaza advocates; in a thread strictly about supporting oppressed people; take away from the message of the thread?
hey maybe we should stop the fucking genocide. maybe, if you're a fucking human being with basic capacity for compassion, you could consider that SORT OF IMPORTANT, and the only other thing that could be considered more important or urgent is climate change, which there is no hope of any elected politician doing jack shit about within our (and humanity's) lifetimes.
also tho, yeah, wish we had serious action to take to protect uighurs, kurds, armenians (FUCKING AGAIN!), etc
Never seen someone so angry about something so not controversial.
thank you for assessing my emotions and deciding that the genocide that is still ongoing and nobody has intervened in, and in some cases made BDS illegal to do, is uncontroversial.
I'm not saying you shouldn't be angry I'm saying most people agree with you. We are all captive to things beyond our control. Let me know if you want help reconciling that.
if something can control you, you have SOME amount of control over it.
When the US is funding the persecution of the Uyghurs, the situations will be equivalent. Oddly enough, citizens of a country tend to be more occupied with the actions of their country than situations that they are not invoked in
Got it, you support genocide.
FFS. Learn to read
Lol, frustrating, no?
You guys truly have no hobbies. What a shitfest
It’s like someone from rdrama started mining lemmy and those are godless scumbags
Edit: also If you haven’t already post it there because at least this way it can have some purpose
What you going to do about it r-slur? We've been mining drama from lemmy since day 1 of the API protests.
Good to know lemmings still fear us LMAO 🤣🤣🤣
It's like, what did I do? I mentioned there are other people being oppressed. I cannot figure out why that's controversial in the context of this thread.
Who won the oppression contest anyway? What are the latest ladders?
Apparently, gazan's are ranked holocaust. Uyghurs are close behind at detention camps. Ukraines on the board with war crimes.