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  • What about slavery in the US? Are black Americans not still suffering from the effects of slavery generations past even though they’re not actively enslaved today?

    You can’t ignore the bigger picture. The contention between Jewish and Arab people has never ended. It has only evolved. WWI ended only 100 years ago (Oppression by Ottomans). Holocaust survivors are still alive and many living in Israel. They also experienced the Arab Israeli war and other aggression from surrounding Arab countries.

    When does an oppressed group stop being oppressed? They can both be oppressed and do bad things.



  • Not sure how you can say that. The Ottoman Empire and British Mandate Palestine are directly related to regions that are currently Israel and contained Jewish people who had been oppressed in that area and who were being oppressed in other places like Germany and had migrated there.

    The point being that you can’t excuse violence that affects innocent people just because they are part of an oppressed group.




  • That’s a real slippery slope. If you go back through history you’re essentially saying Israel’s current genocide is just a product of the oppression they’ve faced from multiple civilizations/countries (e.g. Egypt, Rome, Germany, etc.)

    Based on your logic, what Israel is doing is bad, but really we shouldn’t be mad at them. We should be mad at their oppressors.






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    There are other ways to be a “hero” that don’t negatively affect innocent people’s lives. Who knows what kinds of toxic chemicals are in that warehouse and now in the lungs of people for miles around. Reckless, selfish and does nothing for progress.

    They have insurance on all of that. They’ll just move somewhere else and the people living around there will be exposed to ash, toxic chemicals, noise pollution and traffic while they clean it up and potentially rebuild.

    Our hero…

    For some perspective: