If It Was Just About Hamas, Why Are Palestinians In The West Bank, Which Isn’t Controlled By Hamas,

If it was just about Hamas, why are Palestinians in the West Bank, which isn’t controlled by Hamas, getting attacked?

If it was just about Hamas, why shut off water electricity and food that would harm the civilians the most?

If it was just about Hamas, why use white phosphorus and engage in chemical warfare?

If it was just about Hamas, why lie about babies being decapitated and produce AI generated images to try to prove that?

We need to start asking serious questions. Of course no one wants any civilian deaths but if you are constantly asking “okay but what about Hamas your supporting Hamas??” You have to see the large structural violence that is a daily reality for Palestinians and as I type this Gaza is being leveled.

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lemonsharkk

5 months ago

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lemonsharkk

1 year ago

hey i was wondering something and i wanted to know your opinion on it

Why is it problematic to say i hate men but not white people or straight people

(i'm a trans south east asian man btw)

I'd say on, like, a casual exasperated level, its not problematic to say "I hate [x]." It gets problematic when your venting about a group becomes your sole lens of viewing + interacting with that group.

Like, its entirely alright to be frustrated with behaviors common to cishet white men and express that in a vent by saying you hate them. But... its like how people make the correct point that they shouldn't be expected or obligated to give all their energy to coddling people with power over them, but translate that into "i never have to care about a member of this group at all" which directly conflicts with just. being in a community? Like women should not be expected to be caretakers for men, but people in a community need to take care of each other. When the only way you engage with a group of people is by expressing hatred and asserting how much you aren't obligated to care about them, its easier than people think to find yourself dehumanizing them.

Which does not mean "you are just as bad as a racist/misogynist" or "you are oppressing them"; you are An Individual whose biases are not necessarily backed up by powerful systemic powers. But, for one, its very easy for those biases to be used by systemic forces: with men, misandry is very easily used to justify all kinds of violence towards marginalized men & people perceived as men. You also have situations where people will say the Holocaust "wasn't as bad" as, say, US slavery, because it was "white on white violence," or saying the Armenian genocide also wasn't that big of a deal because "it was done to Christians and Christians are always killing people" (two real things I have seen been said). And, again: if you are going to care about community and restorative/transformative justice and all that, you need to be able to give a shit about all kinds of people who you live with. You need to be able to see them as whole beings you are capable of connecting with on some level. You don't personally need to date or befriend men, but you do need to be able to give a shit about men in your community.

Its fine to feel annoyance and anger and use "hatred" to express that. But the problem occurs when people take "its okay to be angry with your oppressors and not spend all your energy coddling them" and make that the end-all be-all of their relationship with people of whatever group; revolutions can't accomplish compassionate goals when they are run on hatred. Very hooksian concept but "love" (as in "a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust", not in a strictly emotional sense but as an action) is a skill that is as vital as understanding class dynamics and protest tactics. Maybe you don't need to love everyone, but try to have the capacity to love anyone; the ability to physically care for someone you don't emotionally like is, I think, a vital step towards truly challenging and bringing down the kyriarchy.

Basically its about recognizing when your venting stops being an outlet and starts being a way for unproductive feelings to shape how you view other people.

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lemonsharkk

4 months ago

🚨 !!!!! URGENT !!!!! 🚨

Help me, friends

I live in Gaza.

I am in desperate need of money and donations. 🙏🥹

I have five children and my husband is missing in the war.

I have no income.

I want to buy jackets and blankets for my children because the weather is cold and harsh and my children are freezing from the cold and cannot bear it, and we do not have any heating tools in this weather.