• LaLiLuLuCo@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Lemmy is mostly lefties despite a few glaring counter examples.

    Theres a lot of huffing gas going on on the left with near zero historical context or on-the-ground understanding. People still repeat “River t0 the Sea” as if it’s not a literal call to genocide for militant nationalists. Instead they post the decolonization blog. Meanwhile even Palestinian Authority reps and members of the negotiating team for the last n peace deals are publishing opinion pieces that the phrase is intrinsically a call to violent genocide and the Palestinian supporters really need to check who they are getting their “facts” from. It’s basically on siding with a terrorist org but because some people think there is a noble goal beneath it that makes it OK to chant.

    There’s also a lot of people too young to remember how the West and East conducts sieges in dense urban areas. It’s not good or pretty to look at.

    Also like most people outside of the region don’t seem to get that Palestinians and Israelis are both more or less the same ethnicity (Semitic though the term has fallen out of usage outside of describing the language roots of Arab and Hebrew and like half a dozen other languages) and look the same. There isn’t a skin color component. That’s projection from Americans/Westerners who mostly see Ashkenazi jews who tend to avoid light for various reasons and are pretty pale. Once they are back in the middle east everyone turns a shade of olive/brown and you couldn’t pick a jew or an Arab out of a lineup if they didn’t have religious clothing on to make it easier.