• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    By your logic, the US exists because of American terrorism.

    In fact almost every country would exist because of terrorism.

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      2 years ago

      Close, the us exists because a bunch of europeans moved to a new land and ethnically cleansed the natives.

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      2 years ago

      The USA got to do a genocide, so we get to do a genocide! Why are people so unhappy about this? “Never again” just means against us, right? We can still do it?

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        If both are bad, why is the US not being required to make up for their genocide?

        Calling for one to be disallowed, while continuing to allow the results from the other is hypocrisy. It’s not like the US couldn’t give back the land if the same level of will we see towards Gaza existed for native Americans. That’s never going to happen though, Americans are completely comfortable with the results of their genocide at this point.

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          There’s a huge movement to do so that. Look into land back rights and all that. But the Israel Palestine thing is more urgent because it’s better to stop a genocide from happening in progress right now, then to make up for one that has already happened. The only people comfortable with America’s genocide are the same right wing and centrist people supporting Israel right now.

          • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
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            No there isn’t. There’s a TINY movement to do that, and it’s never going to happen.

            They’re comfortable saying we should do something, until it would cost them something personally.

            You’ll find almost every American becomes very comfortable with the genocide very quickly when you start talking about taking away their home to give the land back.

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        2 years ago

        The problem with your argument, is that you want to continue to allow the results of the past native American genocide, while disallowing the results of the Israeli conflict. That’s hypocrisy.

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            2 years ago

            You can do something about the native American genocide now, but you won’t because it’s a hardship for you. If someone asked you to give back the land you own for free, you’d fight tooth and nail to prevent it.

            It’s still hypocrisy to call for other people to fix a wrong, while you refuse to do the same. If you won’t deal with it, they shouldn’t have to either.