• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    10 months ago

    What if some of those merchant sailors (who are often so poor they can’t even afford to leave port) are Palestinians? Is it okay to kill those Palestinians?

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      10 months ago

      of course not. but its very disingenious to start caring about palestinians when trade routes are disrupted but not when millions of them are getting killed or displaced.

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          10 months ago

          good cause someone is actually doing something about it now…

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              10 months ago

              well asking nicely wont stop a genocide will it?

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                10 months ago

                And neither will this. In fact this just works against stopping it because it’s helping Israel’s allies sell the whole brown person bad line. It sucks but the proven way to stop a genocide is political pressure on those allies, a BDS movement, and international intervention at the location. Not hundreds of miles away and indiscriminately.