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When you compare what is happening to the Palestinian people versus the Ukrainian people, you are downplaying the Palestinian genocide.
Looking at the history and the causes of escalation, they are not the same.
Ukraine is a pawn of the US and NATO, which is only used to continue to push for regime change and aggression toward Russia.
Ukraine is much more similar to Israel in that the US gives them unlimited military support so as to continue aggression against the nations around them and push for more forever wars.
I wasn’t doing that. They’re obviously massively different situations. I was just pointing out that Cornel West is okay with genocide, just only certain types of it.
Oh hey Jimmy - what do you think of Uighur genocide?
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I agree with that.
I don't think we will agree on this topic; Cornel West does not believe the government and military talking points around Ukraine.
I make it a priority to try and follow the military leaks and whistleblowers that helped call out the lies of our nation. I see why people are waking up to the reality of US imperialism, where we continue to push for more forever wars, Ukraine and Israel being examples.
So… nothing about Uighurs?
Our government and our military will always have an excuse to push for more wars.
We are doing much worse things than what other nations are doing, the only difference is that everyone has a phone and can share the videos and images of what we are doing and funding around the world.
We do not have the excuse of not seeing the images and videos being shared in social media.