Moved this here because I watched the rest of the video and he gets shitty at the end.

How do we get people like Norm to stop being credulous about flawed science and fucking bigotry.

His larger point with the video is more interesting but it gets lost in anti-trans shit at the end

  • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    This. Palestinian parties accept it because Israel has made itself too powerful to destroy entirely, not because the conquest of 48 was more legitimate than the conquest of 67. They have to be politically realistic while we here can recognize that any Israel at all is an affront to the people who lived there before

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      What does your “recognition” do? I’m talking about meaningful positions. Is that a party which is taking actions working with Palestinian parties and a cooperative strategy which includes having a different position on this? It could be, and I’d find that super cool and interesting. Otherwise, my point is just that anarchic calls or recognitions aren’t as useful as just repeating exactly what Palestinian Liberation groups are saying. It has no extra positive effect except to make us feel good.

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        I’m an individual, my personal thoughts are meaningless, as is my position on the bear site. I could post resistance positions verbatim and it wouldn’t have an extra positive effect. I’m simply saying that just because the resistance accepts Israel’s existence doesn’t mean that I have to