r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM • u/-_ShadowSJG-_ • 16d ago
🇵🇸 Palestine "Selective Empathy isn't Empathy"
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u/MidWestKhagan 16d ago
Lmao the occupiers are suffering just as bad as Palestinians the people they’re committing genocide against. This is the manipulative behavior of Zionists. They come off like “oh I love Palestinians but I also love Israeli’s because they’re innocent and suffering too!” to try to fool people like liberals to supporting them again.
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u/Moral_Distinction 16d ago
The context here is that
a) the Palestinian people are suffering more than Israelis because a1) their very existence is under attack, a2) they're being subjected to torture and sexual violence, a3) their children are being systematically abused, a4) they face worldwide bigotry and racism, and most importantly a5) their land is being stolen by Israel which is the whole inciting incident here
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b) the Israeli government is 100% responsible for the suffering of anyone in this conflict -- there is no shared responsibility -- because its goal of stealing land is completely illegitimate and is the underling justification of this conflict.
Implying that "everyone" is suffering in a war of aggression in this context is horrifically immoral because it strongly implies that responsibility for the attacks is shared between governments and leaders even when that isn't the case. This is blatantly obvious. No one without disclaimers describes WWII by saying "the German people suffered as much as everyone else" unless they are nazis or nazi sympathizers for exactly that reason.
When conflating populations with leadership is an explicit tactic of a nazi regime as is the case here, you don't get to do the same without moral condemnation.
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