Like they agree with me in terms of being “team Palestine”, and understands my analogies of the initial Hamas attack being like if slaves in the 1800s had tried to stage an uprising etc but still “you can’t tell me terrorism is good because it’s never good”, even when I explain to them how non-violent protest actually working (like when schools taught us about MLK JR/civil rights etc) is propaganda…fun times.
Small rant.
If you truly cannot resist violence with violence, then you are usually killed by your aggressors. It’s easy for pacifists to exist in the first world where they’ll never have to lie down and let themselves be killed. They can just sit at home while the system they accept the continued existence of does the killing for them.
Ironically, it’s those comfortable material conditions that have shaped her “violence is bad no matter what” ideology, because seeing violence makes her feel bad, and she doesn’t have to see it when it’s inherent in the system.
I’m sorry you have to have these conversations often, because they’re indeed uniquely frustrating, especially with loved ones.
Yeah. Definitely. That’s well worded. I think many of us have a probably been peace-fetishists at some point in our lives, and now we’re here. So I hold out my hopes that I’ll get through some day.