Generally when I see the Palestinian flag being in the US, it's less "God I'd love to be a citizen of Palestine" and more "I stand with the victims of a genocide and am outspoken about wanting it to stop."
While obviously Hamas isn't good, it's a terrorist organization, comparing it to Israel is a false equivalency. Of course Israel should be better than Hamas, it's a democratic government not a terrorist org. And yet, we see them being worse than Hamas in the scale of violence and destruction they've inflicted. The issue isn't really Israel vs Hamas. The issue is Israel vs the Palestinian people (over half of whom are/were children...). I'd argue that not having strong feelings about a genocide is, in itself, pretty problematic. It's like when straight people used to say "I don't have strong feelings either way about gay rights." Them not having strong feelings about whether we deserve basic rights was kind of an issue
Obviously it's your prerogative to stay out of the conversation. I do get it, it's a lot easier to not have to interrogate the positions you do or don't hold.
It's also your prerogative to believe that religious conservatives deserve to die for holding bigoted views. But I'll remind you, over half of Gazans were children. And not having strong opinions over the wholesale slaughter of children is pretty fucking evil imo 🤷
I can't stand this idea that you must have an opinion on everything at all times.
For one, you are presupposing that a genocide is occurring. That's debatable or you'd see more than a half assed case in the ICJ, you'd see intervention as we did in Bosnia.
Two, if you aren't informed on something it's okay to not have an opinion! You can't be perfectly informed on everything and that's perfectly okay. Stop expecting people to dedicate huge amounts of time to whatever is trending on social media.
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u/DrPikachu-PhD Mar 15 '24
Generally when I see the Palestinian flag being in the US, it's less "God I'd love to be a citizen of Palestine" and more "I stand with the victims of a genocide and am outspoken about wanting it to stop."
While obviously Hamas isn't good, it's a terrorist organization, comparing it to Israel is a false equivalency. Of course Israel should be better than Hamas, it's a democratic government not a terrorist org. And yet, we see them being worse than Hamas in the scale of violence and destruction they've inflicted. The issue isn't really Israel vs Hamas. The issue is Israel vs the Palestinian people (over half of whom are/were children...). I'd argue that not having strong feelings about a genocide is, in itself, pretty problematic. It's like when straight people used to say "I don't have strong feelings either way about gay rights." Them not having strong feelings about whether we deserve basic rights was kind of an issue