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I'm with you on violence bad, but if you were to consider Nat Turner's rebellion, where many enslaved Africans escaped their captors and murdered white Americans (including women and children), as justification for slave owning Americans being unjustly brutal towards Africans and prohibiting them from learning to read, most people would justly tell you to fuck off and say those people that thought they could own other human beings based solely on the color of their skin should be condemned for all eternity. Hell they might even say those Africans didn't kill enough of those evil whites
I'd say, you'll never achieve peace by attacking the other side, but you can only achieve peace if both sides want it. White Americans in the South during 1938 absolutely did not want peace with African Americans in much the same way Israelis don't want peace with Palestinians today. It's oversimplified but this feeling has always gone mostly one way. Black Americans have mostly just wanted peace, they don't want revenge. The same goes for Palestinians. It's truly amazing how hard it is/was for many white Americans and Israelis to learn and accept that fact.
You need better friends if any of them condone the murder of children in any circumstances.
If they were justifying slavery because a few dudes killed some kids?
Uhh.. I don't think you understoood what I wrote.
I'm specifically saying it doesn't matter how many kids one mob of people killed in comparison to the sanctioning and proliferation of chattel slavery for the sole purpose of increasing profits for a few wealthy white men.
Personally, if someone told me 'yeah, slavery was bad but there was this one group of slaves that killed a bunch of kids so actually slavery was kinda justified.' Well, I'd have to disagree and I'd tell them to stop talking to me. And then I'd think what a ......... (censored so I don't get banned)
Who the fuck said anything about a comparison? Killing children is bad. Full stop. Like seriously, just stop there. No comparisons, no deflections, no justifications. No other issues required.
Killing. Children. Is. Bad.
Ridiculous I have to spell that out, what the fuck is wrong with y'all.
Uh I did. That was the whole point of my comment. I made a comparison to the situation going on in Israel. Why did you reply to my comment if you don't care what I'm talking about and don't care to understand?
That's a rhetorical question. I'm blocking you now because you're being disrespectful and I don't care enough to educate you or satisfy your need for attention
Yeah fuck you too, ya fucking child murder apologist.
I can understand killing their former owner, but not random civilians who had the misfortune of being born white.
Let's not lose sight of the fact that Hamas tortured and slaughtered hundreds of random civilians at a music festival.
Maybe you don't understand it, but that's exactly what's happening to the 15 to 25,000 children killed by Israel in retaliation for 7-Oct.
You: immediately loses sight
Sure, pal. One evil doesn't justify another. Get some perspective.
https://www.svsvision.com/book-an-eye-exam/
I agree, which is why you'll note that I'm not defending Israel's actions. I said they were entitled to do something, but not this. Keep swinging at that strawman, though.
I totally get that. I'm not saying it's cool or anything. I'm specifically saying if we use that relatively minor **retaliation ** as justification to be 10x worse or 1000x worse then it almost doesn't matter what the they did because it's not even comparable.
I'll be honest, personally, of all the American history I've learned I couldn't care less about what the group led by Nat Turner did to the group literally led by the various presidents of the US. It barely registers. It's more like random gang violence driven by ignorant, emotional passion, where as what Americans were doing was legit calculated genocide (destroying culture, in this case, since obviously they were still breading people for profit) - it was done methodically and done to maximize profits and political power.
I agree, and can't defend what Israel are doing. The irony is that both sides are essentially doing the same thing that they accuse the other of doing. They are both hyper-aggressive, racist zealots. I don't know what kind of "reset" could make it stop.
I'm not American and never heard of this incident until today, so I can't provide an informed comment. I think I agree with your assessment in general, other than the killing of innocents. I understand why they did it but I can't condone it.
They are not doing the same thing at all. One group is defending their home, trying to survive, living under an occupation with a horrible life, no state, no support, and are constantly losing their home, while the other side is spreading, taking their homes, and trying to do a genocide and prevent the other side from having a state. It's two completely different things.
They are both trying to put a genocide on eachother since the 1920's
What you're seeing is a looong stretched religious territorial conflict. Sometimes it lasts a year. Sometimes it lasts centuries