#for saying israelis are human

[mixmangosmangoverse]

So when a celebrity says something pro Palestine or even pro Hamas everyone goes "yeah woo celebrities should always use their platform to talk about issues"

But when a celebrity says "actually killing Israelis is bad" suddenly celebrities shouldn't get involved in conflicts and shouldn't use their platform to talk about issues

It's so blatant that people just mean "celebrities should only boost the opinions we deem correct and should never ever express sympathy for Jews, that's so lame"

I'm so done

#yes this is about the Tara Strong situation mostly but it's also about every other public figure who was shamed #for saying murder of civilians is bad #for saying israelis are human #for pointing out that Hamas are terrorists #it's all disgusting hypocrites who hate seeing Israelis be treated as humans #anyways when do we start gatekeeping everything ever made by jews from antisemites #there's one specific youtuber who i want to go to and say 'actually I'm taking Gravity Falls and Prince of Egypt away from you' #because he clearly hates Jews and i think if you hate Jews you're not allowed to praise our works because itll always be insincere #also please tell me what Prince of Egypt is about. before you starr retweeting your 5000th 'jews are white europeans' tweet #mango rambles #personal fruits #jumblr #ישראל #ישראלבלר

[carsonjonesfiance]

“Unlike me, a rage-baiting nationalist from a country that has 99.9% cleansed its Jewish population except for some old ladies in Cairo.”

#‘Israeli Leftists are useless’ is a hell of a thing to say when you’re a Tumblr Leftist #but anything to make sure that no one ever humanizes an Israeli I guess

[forthesakeofthefuture]

When zionists call others self-hating, whether it's jews or non-jews, is that also a confession like all their other accusations...

I mean, I've heard of IOF soldiers needing therapy from the PTSD they suffer because of their "war" in Gaza...

Would stopping their acts of terror be beneficial for them too on a psychological and spiritual level?

Dunno if they would accept retirement, though. Either the brainwashing is that great since childhood or they genuinely enjoy murdering babies and children and seeing the look on their mothers' faces as they hold those corpses. Or they just really want that promised land and are willing to enact every tactic of terror and bloodshed there is for each and every single day.

#free palestine #palestine #free gaza #gaza #israel is a terrorist state #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #gaza genocide #israel is committing genocide #genocide #human rights #every accusation is a confession #israeli propaganda #israeli lies #dunno if this has any connection but also have you heard that israelis consume a lot of marijuana? ...it makes you think. #something about israelis consuming the most weed per capita anywhere on earth. it's in the jerusalem post if you're interested. #are we going to start feeling sympathy for child murderers? heh. at least we can agree that - guess what - #killing children is not good for the soul! #israel is everything they say hamas is #(and more)

[soullessjack]

boycott fatigue is actually the stupidest fucking thing ever because how in the ever loving fuck are you experiencing “fatigue” from not going to Starbucks. how is not watching rushed cgi on disney+ and not eating a breaded slime nugget at McDonald’s “fatiguing” you. genuinely how fucking dare this even exist as a concept. entire bloodlines, children, newborns are dying slow and bloody and all of these companies are giving Israel the money to do that. they’re using YOUR fucking money to do this. and look, practically every war has been funded out of our pockets by a means we can’t fight around. almost all of the food and drink we have in the states is owned by some large corporation that makes it fucking impossible to not give them money because they are the sole providers. I understand there are some things we can’t boycott because of our own needs. but this isn’t basic needs that we are being asked to boycott. it’s fucking Disney+ and McDonald’s and Starbucks and a whole slew of luxuries that you’re not only capable of living without, but would actually be better off entirely without.

there’s been a lot of talk about how privileged we are to only be witnessing this human rights atrocity through phones or news and being able to get away from it with a button click and that’s entirely real, but the fact that somebody out here just felt soooo inconvenienced by not going to a drive thru for overpriced garbage that they literally coined the phrase “boycott fatigue,” is probably the biggest load of privileged dog shit I’ve seen in the past few days. do you want to know who’s actually experiencing fatigue right now? the millions of displaced families in Gaza without homes anymore. without any clean water to drink because it’s either been poisoned by the Israelis or contaminated with their peoples’ blood. the children without enough food to get by, or without any food at all. the injured and sick and disabled Palestinians who don’t have access to any medical aid for themselves because their hospitals and fuel trucks are being bombed. these people who have absolutely nothing but each other, and not even that in the worst circumstances, who can only keep walking for days on end, hungry and thirsty and in pain and unable to do anything about it. that is real fucking fatigue.

I understand we’re all seeing war crimes and death and atrocities that nobody should ever have to see and yes it’s difficult to process, but the people of Palestine are experiencing these atrocities in real time, every day, every hour. every ten fucking minutes a child dies. They aren’t even asking for help anymore. They’re only asking to be witnessed and remembered and for us to stop going to places that actively fund their deaths and you’re saying you just can’t because you’re exhausted by not going to that place? I know we’re all born and raised in a consumerist hellscape but you seriously need to get a fucking reality check if offering the bare minimum support to a dying people is ‘fatiguing’ to you. Jesus fucking Christ.

#cal.txt #Gaza #Palestine #free Palestine #free Gaza #bds boycott #boycott fatigue #sorry this is out of nowhere I’m just so fucking fed up with everything right now #look at what is being done to them and realize that you’re lining Israeli pockets to make that happen every time you get ur fucking starbies #look at the bloodied children and infants without legs and bodies in plastic bags #then look at yourself and ask yourself if your fucking pink drink is worth what’s being done to them #you do not get to be fatigued. #and I’m saying this as someone who is actively experiencing autistic burnout. you do not get to be fatigued. #I am so sick and fucking tired of this country and the cattle that call themselves people while offering zero humanity to others.

[bisexualseraphim]

I gotta say, I am seriously fucking concerned with the amount of people here who seem to wholeheartedly believe that the correct answer to the genocide against Palestine is ANOTHER genocide except the other way around. Please stand back for 2 minutes and seriously think about whether you think it’s ever a helpful or just cause to advocate for the deaths of millions of people, especially when plenty of said people are Jews whose families fled there after barely surviving the Holocaust because hardly anywhere else would treat them like human beings or accept them at all since the antisemitism that allowed the Holocaust to happen was not solely in Germany and didn’t magically disappear after the war ended.

Look. The situation is simple when you boil it down to this: Israel is bombing and starving Palestinians like fish in a barrel and doesn’t want to allow aid to Gaza, which consists of a population of over 50% children. Israel allowed the Nakba and displacement of Palestinians for decades and tries to hide it from public view. This is genocide. The Israeli government is at fault for this. Israel holds the power here because they have the power to bomb and starve millions of people and force them out of their homes, and Palestine certainly does not. It’s an utterly horrific, inhumane thing to do with no excuses for it and it needs to stop. This is the simple part that is glaringly obvious for everyone to see and it’s almost laughable for anyone to deny it.

Okay. You’ve successfully identified the main problem and the “bad guy,” if you want to put it in childish simplistic terms. So the question now is: what next? Say Israel agrees to an immediate ceasefire. What do you, impassioned activist on the internet, propose should be done to solve this situation after that? What should be done to free the Israeli hostages? Do you think the UK and the US, two of the most powerful countries in the world who actively help Israel commit its atrocities against Palestine, will ever do anything to help the Palestinians once Israel loses its power, even if better governments are eventually elected? How should the Palestinian land be claimed back? Where should all the Israeli citizens go? Should they all be forced out to Europe and America, even if that isn’t where they originate from, where the already-rife antisemitism has spiked even further since October 7th and Jews who live thousands of miles from Israel and have nothing to do with Israel’s actions face horrific hate crimes every day? Do Israeli children deserve that? Who’s going to pay for their travel and accommodation? Or, should they all be allowed to stay there and live side by side with the Palestinians? Do you think most Palestinians would be happy to remain neighbours with the citizens of the country that has oppressed them so fiercely for over 75 years, even if said citizens didn’t partake in it or in fact opposed it? What about the 20% of Israeli citizens who are Arab or Palestinian? Do you hold the same opinion of foreign settlers in Israel as you do its citizens whom have made a home there for many generations? How do you discern between settlers and “real” Israelis? Do you see any difference between them at all? Why? And what should be done about Hamas, the group that openly calls for the genocide of all Jews around the world and commits war crimes against Israeli citizens? How much of the history behind Israel’s occupation of Palestine are you aware of? Do you think the British government should be held accountable for splitting Palestine in the first place? How would you go about that? Would it be fair to punish the British people for their government’s actions when British citizens didn’t vote for it? How does that compare to your view of Israel and its citizens, and why?

I am absolutely NOT asking trick questions here or trying to “gotcha!” anyone. I am asking these questions precisely BECAUSE they are extremely difficult to answer, with several of them contradicting each other, and they are meant to get an emotional reaction out of you. I certainly don’t know what the “correct” answers to most of those questions are, and that’s exactly my point: there is no simple answer to a problem that has been going on for decades with such a wide, complex history. Historians and political experts who know all the facts and have studied this shit for years don’t know the answer and it’s honestly insulting to all the people suffering to log on every day and see so many people go “actually 😌 I, a random 20-30 something year old on the internet who isn’t even touched by what’s happening in Palestine, have figured it out before everyone else! Just delete an entire country and all its citizens off the map 😊 This is a moral thing to suggest! And if you disagree with me you’re promoting Zionism/terrorism 😘” There are no simple answers and if you think there is one — and especially if you think that answer is to kick citizens out of the country their family has lived in for generations — then you are both wilfully ignorant and evidently fuelled more by hatred than an actual desire for peace and an end to death and oppression and I don’t believe there is a crumb of sincerity in your activism.

Am I naive enough to think that fighting against oppression and occupation is always going to be peaceful? Obviously not. But you’ve got to think about where and when said violence is actually going to be beneficial, and where and when it’s violence purely for the sake of violence, which is NEVER justified. You can’t advocate for human rights and then turn around and say “oh, but not for you.” EVERYONE deserves food and water. EVERYONE deserves shelter. EVERYONE deserves to receive treatment for sickness or injury. NOBODY deserves cruel and unusual punishment or torture. And EVERYONE deserves to be alive. Those are essential human rights that should never, ever be denied wherever it is possible to give them, and disagreeing with that reflects extremely poorly on you and your principles. Think about what narrative you are pushing when you claim an entire people “deserves” bad things. The constant dehumanisation I see happening in online activism (and far too often in real life too) is actually terrifying and if you want to do some real good in the world, I need everyone reading this to examine their potential internal prejudices, even the ones you don’t think you have, and think about who exactly you’re helping when you express thoughts that perpetuate them, and who you may be harming in the process.

Anyway, now that I’ve gotten that out of the way…

Here are some useful resources if you want to make a difference and help people:

Standing Together (an Israeli movement advocating for ceasefire and peace between Israelis and Palestinians)

Zochrot (an Instagram page that seeks to educate the public about the Nakba)

Parents’ Circle (an organisation run by relatives of Israelis and Palestinians killed in the conflict who advocate for peace)

Operation Olive Branch (a Google Doc of Palestinian families seeking evacuation)

Mesarvot Network (an Instagram page run by young Israelis seeking to refuse the IDF draft and end military violence committed by both Hamas and the IDF)

Other Gaza aid organisations to donate to

#I’ve kept this in for too long I had to say something #I wonder if anyone will call me a Zionist for saying that Israelis are people who don’t deserve death #Despite the fact I’ve been spreading awareness for the Palestinians all this time #Tumblr activists when you don’t advocate for human suffering: 😡😡😡 #Tumblr activists when you don’t treat a genocide like a sports game: 😡😡😡 #Tumblr activists when you think death is bad: 😡😡😡 #Tumblr activists when a Jewish person exists: 😡😡😡 #I’m not Jewish but if I was I would likely be too scared to post this oop #Do you know how many Jewish mutuals I have who advocate for Palestine to be free #But they receive antisemitic abuse and get called Zionists for not wanting Israelis to die #I’ve been too scared to say all this for a while tbh #But if people have a problem with me saying ‘I want as little suffering to anyone to happen as possible’ #Then are those really people I want around me? #Oh fuck British politicians for supporting genocide btw #free palestine #free gaza #gaza aid #palestine resources #israel palestine conflict #i/p #genocide #ethnic cleansing #human rights #antisemitism #islamophobia #holocaust #activism #fuck the tories #fuck labour #long post

[cravenhearted]

I have finally watched The Creator yesterday. Watching that while the genocide in Palestine is currently unfolding was very, very painful.

Reviews on letterboxd I've seen focused so much on the what they perceived to be "boring sci-fi trope of wow robots have feelings/souls too" and neglected to point out how this film shows how US military DEHUMANIZE people.

It really grinds my gears how many people missed the totally not-subtle anti-military, anti-imperialism aspect at the very heart of the film.

#i do agree though the script is NOT good #the characters and the interactions and the emotional moments could've been written better #but as someone from Global South I absolutely adore the way they show how dehumanization works #i will probably say more about this film later. esp in regards to us war on terror and the on-going genocide of palestinian people. also th #whole 'A.I. must be stopped cus they will replace human' thing made me think about how people excusing israeli ethnonationalism #because 'Arab birth rate' would replace Israelis or whatever. that's why Palestinian children are considered to be massive threat to Israel #and this film a 'choosen child' is considered to be the highest threat to West military #The Creator #Gareth Edwards #John David Washington #The Creator 2023 #/text mine

[ruthlesslistener]

[Through gritted teeth] I still hold firm to the belief that civilians should never be the targets in a war, however. The people of Israel are making it extremely fucking difficult to remember that belief. Doubly so when they're very willingly placing themselves into the war effort to make the life of innocents living hell

#i dont want to talk about it much because my feelings are very very violent and ugly and not 'politically correct' #but god. i dont think there is anything more disgusting than what is going on in palestine rn #showing the absolute ugliest aspect of humanity's nature #and no before anyone says anything- wanting the israeli forces to be blown to bloody bits isnt antiseminism #because i *know* that these human monsters are not following any religion other than the vitrolic hatred in their hearts #judaism has nothing to do with this. it's a paper-thin excuse pulled over the teeth of imperial colonization #to justify the slaughter of natives and the rape of their land

[hope-ur-ok]

Something I really don't understand are the assumptions people on the side Israel seem to hold about everyone who is free Palestine, I.E. that we don't think the hostages should be returned or that we think all Israeli citizens deserve to die for the crimes of their government. Like I'm sure there are people who think that, which is gross and frankly unacceptable, but the fact that they approach everything said in support of Palestine from that angle isn't okay either. All that they are doing is trying to simplify everything in a way that makes Israel the indisputable victim and everyone who opposes them into an antisemitic monster when the reality is that most of us just believe in the value of ALL human life and don't think more than 23,000 peoples lives are acceptable collateral damage. Like we just think that Palestinian civilians should have basic access to food, water, healthcare, and shelter and should not be facing arrest just for being Palestinian as if that somehow makes them inherently dangerous, where are you getting the batshit assumptions from in statements like that?

#every time I have made a post in support of palestine I get anon messages accusing me of thinking the hostages shouldn't be returned #or that i don't care that a little more than a thousand israeli civilians died on oct 7 #as if me saying that I believe in a need for a ceasefire means i think that their lives are unimportant #this is literally how all the conversations go #me: 'i dont think that thousands of people should be dead while thousands more are injured and starving' #an anon in my inbox: 'oh so you think all jews deserve to die' #like no - shockingly - a person who believes in human rights is just calling out the fact that a huge group of people #have had their basic rights taken away by the israeli government #and they are now being forced to live in intense fear of death and starvation #anyway i was sent into an anger spiral about this seeing what people are saying about the ICJ trial #this is by no means a comprehensive post of my thoughts I just needed to get them out

[gay-impressionist]

The French minister of the interior just forbid any demonstration in favor of Palestine 🙃

#but we're a “democracy” and “the country of human rights” #i'm not saying we should celebrate the deaths of israelis #and i guess that's the excuse for forbidding the demonstrations #but you can support palestine and denounce israel's colonialism without celebrating war and deaths #anyway in what world do you forbid demonstrations #in favor of a country??? #wtf #*this is fine* meme #upthebaguette #tw racism #free palestine

[menalez]

apparently criticising anti-palestinian racism and opposing hamas without reiterating baseless claims israel makes to justify killing palestinians is antisemitic now 💀

#i didn’t say a single thing that can be misconstrued to be anti-jewish people #i didnt even talk about jewish people. or talk about israelis as a population #i literally just. criticised a racist post & disputed the baseless claim that israel’s killings are all bc hamas uses ‘human shields’

[thedreadvampy]

Yes people are fucking dying and no I don't ever feel like. Great about people being killed in missile strikes.

But I also don't feel great about decades of civilians, including over 2,100 children in the last 20 years, being killed both by missile strikes and by being shot or beaten to death in the street.

250 people were killed in the Hamas rocket attacks on Saturday, which is around the same as the number of Palestinian people the Israeli security forces had murdered this year before Saturday, and significantly less than they've killed since Saturday.

look the people are not the state and despite Israel being an apartheid colony, being an Israeli citizen doesn't necessarily imply 100% agreement. It's been 70 years and 3 generations since Israel was established as a state and the majority of Israeli civilians now didn't choose to come, they're living in the country they were born (although the same is not so much true for people living in Gaza who have recently occupied the stolen homes of Palestinians). Israelis are human people with lives and hopes and passions and deaths of any person are tragic.

BUT.

Palestinians are human people with lives and hopes and passions and their lives matter just as much and are snuffed out without the international community batting an eye - I remind you again. 212 Palestinians including 38 children were murdered this year before this weekend's missile strikes and if you didn't give a shit until Hamas killed the same number of Israelis at which point everyone went OH MY GOD THE HUMANITY HOW COULD PALESTINIANS DO THIS (while Israel killed 300+ more Palestinians in under 24 hours) that's bc uhhhh you're fucking racist and don't think Palestinian lives are as important as Israeli ones

so like. sure we can acknowledge that 250 Israeli civilians' deaths are a tragedy, if we can also agree that the 300+ Palestinian civilians killed in retaliatory strikes are a tragedy and most importantly if we can agree that the 200+ Palestinians killed in 2023 before the Hamas strikes this weekend are not just a tragedy but a deliberate atrocity.

in January the Israeli government made it vocally clear before the UN than not only do they consider the occupation of Palestine permanent, they are explicitly focused on taking over as much Palestinian land as possible in perpetuity. Since then this whole year there have been a total of only FOUR (nonconsecutive) FULL WEEKS in which NO Palestines were killed by Israel (compared to only 8 weeks in which Israelis WERE killed, of which 2 incidents were friendly fire from another IDF member)

It's legitimately tragic when people are killed. And Israel has been systematically killing Palestinians to the degree there are Palestinian casualties recorded about 3 days in every 5 this year, usually multiple, with displacements, demolitions, injuries, arrests and beatings recorded almost every single day. I do not know how LITERALLY anyone can look at the numbers from this year, let alone the last 75, and conclude that Israel is the victim of unprovoked violence.

#red said #i note again. ISRAEL THE STATE provoked the violence which ISRAELI PEOPLE face regardless of their political beliefs #Israel's government does not represent the beliefs of all Israelis. no state does. #Israelis live on stolen land in an apartheid state. some of them chose to do so and to enthusiastically participate and some don't. #the Israeli people en masse are as responsible for the Israeli state as the American people are for the American state #or the British people for the British state #which is to say they run the gamut from thinking the government doesn't go far enough to protesting constantly #Israeli doesn't mean evil. Israeli people are people like anyone else. and resisting apartheid from within an apartheid state #isn't easy and a lot of Israelis do. and even if they don't they're still human people. #Israel as a state like most colonial states puts work into propaganda fear and dehumanisation of the other. #people are responsible for breaking out of that but they're not personally culpable for the crimes of their country #it fucking sucks. that Israeli civilians are killed indiscriminately as part of this conflict. #IT JUST ALSO FUCKING SUCKS THAT PALESTINIAN CIVILIANS ARE KILLED DISPLACED AND IMPRISONED #WHETHER OR NOT THE NATIONS ARE INVOLVED IN DIRECT VIOLENT CONFLICT #Israeli civilians are collateral casualties in violence which is happening bc Palestinians would like to stop being killed almost daily #and that sucks. it isn't a good thing and i don't delight in their deaths. the people are not the state. #but it also sucks that Palestinian people are killed at a rate of 15-60 every month regardless of what if anything happens to Israeli people #prior to this week the highest monthly conflict-related death toll for Israel was 7. the lowest for Palestine was 12. #and btw at least 3 Israeli deaths recorded were cases of one IDF member accidentally shooting another while trying to kill a Palestinian #in September 0 Israelis were killed by Palestinians and yet 15 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces. #that's not to pretend it's good for Israelis to die. it's to point out that the violence of Palestinians against Israelis is in desperation #while the violence of Israelis against Palestinians is of opportunity. #where Israeli noncombatants are killed by Palestinian forces it's almost always collateral damage. and to be clear that is still a tragedy. #Palestinian noncombatants are regularly collateral damage but they're ALSO singled out and shot dead in the street #and that's a much more deliberate act. #if a 13yo is killed in a missile strike. if a 13yo is hit by a car. if a 13yo is shot by a gunman. all those are tragedies. #for the victim. they're dead however they die. for their families it's the same level of grief. #but there is a DIFFERENCE. between knowing your actions may kill children. and putting a child in your sights and shooting them dead. #that kind of targeted violence against specific individual civilians is something Israeli forces do to Palestinians. #it isn't something that is on record as happening the other way around

[orbiyoo]

the post in question is about youtube taking down decades of videos of life in palestine en masse.

dodge the fucking draft or just own your spinelessness for 'defending' stolen land from apparently the entire population of palestine that is majority children.

#do palestinians even register as human beings in your fucking head or is there a whiteness threshold to be met for you? #conflating antizionism with antisemitism and then saying you have no choice but to go terrorize palestinians is fucking incredible. #sorry i thought when we say NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYBODY it means NEVER AGAIN. FOR ANYBODY. #like i looked through the notes of that post for a few minutes and found nothing before it clicked. people doing this makes it #inpossible to keep track of ACTUAL antisemitism #i am so fucking mad. a population of 50% children trying to steal ''''israeli''' land. dont make me fucking laugh #as if living in isntreal is just a necessity. Fuck off #i havent been making my own posts on anything because theres nothing i can say that ahsnt been said better. However i can say Fuck you #and do it perfectly well #zionists calling themselves 'children of light' and having the audicity to associate themselves with judaism.

[pacifymebby]

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#went to a houseparty this evening and one of my pals started talking about being pro palestine but in a genocide the jews way #and its just made me really sad because what happened to just valuing human lives #what happened to being pro not genociding people at all #why have i got to listen to friends say they think my bfs family should be killed just bc they fall on the wrong side of the tiktok argumwnt #like im not pro killing anyone on either side i think its a really complicated issue #just sucks to have friends look you in the eye and tell you ur family should be murdered when at the end of the day #everyone that isnt the israeli government specifically is just a person looking for a home in a world that doesnt believe they deserve one #and thats true of Israelis and Palestinians respectively bc theres people on both sides of that argument #since when did saying i dont think murdering the jews is the answer become wrong? why cant i be anti israels government #and anti palestinian genocide #and anti jewish genocide #maybe im just a fucking hippie but i just dont believe in any genocide sorry???

[mariluphoto]

via. IG: abdallah.dalee

#say she passed away. #israel is a terrorist state #i stand with palestine #free palestine #palestine #end israeli occupation #end israeli apartheid #end israeli siege #gaza #human rights #humanitarian crisis #current events #news

[maziodynez]

how are yall on here thinking the catholic church somehow supports lgbt rights. how did that come up in any sort of conversation because why am i seeing a post going around explaining how the vatican doesn't like gay people when it's like ? yeah ? obviously ? where the fuck have you been for the past like thousand years ?

#vero.txt #t #if that was in response to the tweet going around about how isra*l is hating on the pope for calling for a ceasefire ... how did you guys - #think that just because the pope called for a ceasefire in gaza did you think he was a bastion of human rights like #not only that but the post in question was saying how insane it is that people aren't even more left than the pope and how that's saying st #like maybe its because i was raised catholic but how do you all not know that the catholic church is a colonialist etc institution

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

If you think women and girls being bombed is compatible with your feminist beliefs, you are wrong.

If you think women and girls being acceptable collateral damage to the things men have done is compatible with your feminist beliefs, you are wrong.

If you think retaliating by harming women and girls of one group for the harm done to women and girls of another group is compatible with your feminist beliefs, you are wrong.

If you think women and girls dying may be necessary to "liberate" the people, you are wrong.

#no this isn't solely about the Israeli attack on Gaza or the hostages Hamas took #but rather an attitude I've seen by so-called feminists regarding this and other conflicts and wars and massacres etc. #over the years #well decades now I guess I'm 36 lol #but anyway #I keep being reminded of the Iraqi women saying western feminists don't care if middle-eastern women are bombed #as long as they die with their genitals intact #your concern for non-western women cannot stop at the actions of non-western men #imperialism #it always weirded me out #how people would point to this or that atrocity committed by x group of people #to justify thinking of them as non-human #but their victims were...women and children of their own group #and it was like...but if they're monsters and it's down to something inherent aren't their victims also monsters? #and if they aren't then it can't be inherent to that group #so why would we support something that would further victimize those women and children? #as if western peoples don't have their own sordid histories #and not even all that long ago #both against other peoples #and against women and children of their own #not to mention the things they still do #and a lot of those things are done by men who are the loudest in saying x group of people are basically animals and should be put down #put yourself down first #but anyway if you're a woman and consider yourself a feminist #you can't be of the position that it's acceptable for some women to die in war or massacre or retaliation or whatever #no matter what justifications you have in your head for it