#'oh you claim to care about palestinians but i havent seen you talk about....'

[zvaigzdelasas]

I just don't believe anyone reposting those lists about "here's 15+ different places with Problems going on (just like palestine!!)" knows or cares enough to be able to explain what's happening in more than 1/4 of them in anything approaching the depth appropriate to doing the topic justice

#also very easy to group together w western propaganda #lost count how many times ive seen like cuban crackdown on free speech or uyghur genocide on those lists #or viet nam #youre not spreading solidarity by forcing dozens of qualitatively different situations into the same mold #not to mention that zionist apologists have literally been weaponizing those lists since day 1 #'oh you claim to care about palestinians but i havent seen you talk about....' #like this could be seen coming from miles away #forms of comparisons that dont abstract to the point of uselessness tend to come in pairs #moreover. the way those are often grouped under the label 'free x' or 'save y' #or vague calls to boycott when theres no labor organizations within that region even calling for that #who is doing the freeing who is doing the saving how do your means match your ends