#history vs. reality

[delawaredetroit]

This...certainly is a selective retelling of their society's history.

Because from the little we've seen from the Dawn of Quirks era, it was less about "no weaponized quirks" initially and more like "the metahumans are unclean and should be shunned/eliminated". There probably weren't any out quirked people in the police force when this decision was made in the first place. This no violent use of quirks concept feels like a justification made after the fact.

And it's more likely that there were groups of vigilantes that gained public support first which forced the powers that be to accommodate them, and not the other way around (see the entire plot of the Vigilantes manga for an example of this even in their current hero society).

As heroes started out as vigilantes, it's more like they began outside the law and then the law changed to incorporate the ones it found to be the most useful to try to regain stability after their society realized the genie couldn't be put back in the bottle on the quirk situation.

On another note, it sure was an interesting choice to have a heteromorph character be the one to explain hero society's current spin on the history

#bnha reread #bnha 56 #bnha #hero society #what's unclear is how much of this history is actively censored vs the powers that be just trying to drown out every other message #bc looking at mha alone i'd say more censorship but with the context of vigilantes and especially makoto... #it might just be good propaganda and the reality of the situation is relegated to academia (see tsukauchi makoto)

[horizon-verizon]

Alicent would HATE Anne Boleyn, a reformist who helped instigate the break from Rome and the Catholic church, and would call her the “concubine”, “whore”, she-devil”, “Jezebel”. Alicent would call Elizabeth a “bastard” and would support Katherine of Aragon, the pious, loyal and dutiful wife, a daughter of Isabella the Catholic.

Anne was everything that the ideal woman at that time wasn’t meant to be. She wasn’t submissive, she wasn’t meek, she wasn’t somebody who withheld her emotions, she was bold, she was very outspoken, she was emotionally demonstrative, probably emotionally sort of rather immoderate and rather extreme and not at all retiring, very assertive. And I think ultimately somebody who wanted to be in control of her own destiny; in that way makes her quite modern. I love her speech at her trial, in which she describes her one “crime” as not having shown Henry enough “humility”. I think that’s an extraordinary, “feminist” insight for a woman of her time. “I confess I have had jealous fancies and suspicions of him, which I had not discretion enough, and wisdom, to conceal at all times”, she recognized that she had transgressed against the norms of wifely behavior, that she didn’t remained in her proper place. To describe her as a feminist would be an anachronism, but she did step over the ever-moving line that marked the boundary of the comfort zone for men of her era, stepping right into the epicenter of politics during a volatile, dangerous time.

What’s up with Alicent’s stans trying to force nonsensical parallels between her and controversial & challenging women (Anne Boleyn, Medea, Clytemnestra, etc) ? Who’s next, Scarlett O’Hara, Anna Karenina, Hester Prynne ? I thought Alicent was the Virgin Mary who never did anything wrong and whose only character trait is suffering.

Answer to this post?

Again, haven't gone into any real depth with Anne Boleyn, but these sound convincing from what I do know of her. You really got me with the supporting Catherine of Aragon bit, because...whoo, Alicent would.

#asoiaf asks to me #anne boleyn #alicent hightower #fiction vs reality #english history #medieval history #european queens

[ccarrot]

bsd manages to do cool storylines but never quite as cool as you anticipate. when i heard there was an arc called 'cannibalism' i was over here thinking the ADA had to fight some kind of zombie infestation or smthn. well we got the vampire arc i guess?

#sometimes i think about what i thought the series was gonna be back when i first got into it and it's very different #like. i didn't realize that the port mafia was gonna be a Thing. ofc we needed villains b u t i d i d n ' t k n o w ok #i lowkey sorta shipped atsushi and dazai when i first started reading. also thought that i'd be a kndz-er but no didn't work out #i knew chuuya existed/ had history with dazai. but i didn't know what so i thought he was gonna be some ex-ada member who had a falling out #i thought dazai would be my favorite like everyone else but nah. he was always kinda just okay for me until i started bcoming a chuuya no.1 #i also was expecting yosano to like. Do More. #expectations vs reality is so interesting with bsd.

[daisiesonafield-blog]

hi, how did the whole ‘enemy narrative’ between H & L come about? like did they just stop interacting?

asking bc i saw a post about a certain 1D concert in 2015 and they said oh H & L obviously didn’t interact

1DHQ pushed that narrative, starting in 2013 when their closet shifted and became much more severe and restrictive. They stopped allowing H and Louis to sit next to each other, interact directly on and off stage, they couldn't be pictured together, only with the band, couldn't post each other, etc etc.... basically they could only acknowledge each other in reference to One Direction and within the band. Everything else, they had to act like they didn't know each other.

1DHQ went as far as spreading this narrative that they hated each other in the press, promo, gossip articles and sites. Saying they didn't so much as travel together on tour and that they needed separate planes/cars etc.

It was bullshit, bc we have plenty of video, photos and stories that show that this narrative was totally a lie that they spread to fragment the fandom, create more engagement, boost their PR and closet H + L further.

We have plenty showing that they did travel together a lot on tour, shared clothes, shared a dressing room, interacted bts, etc etc etc.

This is why larrairport was such a big deal at the time too, bc after so long of that bs narrative, we got pap pics showing HL traveling together in the same private plane.

This narrative is basically the root of the state of this fandom today, and all the issues this fandom has to this day, and why it's so fragmented. We have antis vs larries, solos vs ot4/ot5, and a bunch of other fandom groups. It worked brilliantly for 1DHQ and 1D's PR bc by having fan infighting they guaranteed fandom engagement and retention.

#there's a lot more tied to this as well #it's basically linked to nearly all 1D history #rip #1d history #enemies narrative #narrative vs reality #1dhq #1d marketing #1d PR #for new larries #iron closet

[dimity-lawn]

I just had a horrible thought and now I’m sharing it with you.

We all know that the Stede Bonnet in Our Flag Means Death is a different person than the Stede Bonnet that actually existed, but despite the things he did, the atrocities he committed, there were still people who were in favor of him as he was tried for his crimes, and after his death those who knew him pitied rather than condemned him.

If people living in the early Georgian era had had access to the same technology/social media/similar that we have today, there definitely would have been people in Barbados calling Stede Bonnet a “poor little meow meow”.

#thought(s) from yours truly #stede bonnet #the real stede bonnet #ofmd vs reality #ofmd #our flag means death #history #18th century #pirates

[wild-at-mind]

Honestly really upset about the James Somerton thing.

#the plaigerism is really bad but honestly think the lies are worse #todd in the shadows who i already really like and respect as a longtime fan put up a video where he showed the worst ones #they are mostly lies and not misunderstandings or fuck ups #just...why to people do this i just don't know #anyway if you are going to repeat something you heard in a video essay to someone else please please research whether it is true first!! #this is vital to stop misinformation spreading #tumblr already has a serious problem with this about queer issues #i remember during the ace discourse years (which were already awful) a weird 'queer is a slur' vs 'queer is not a slur' debate started #which was mainly people claiming that all the people on their side were good and all the people on the other side were bigots #the marginilised people were all on their side and the bigots were all on the other side #it just got like....what the fuck are we doing?? :( #the ace discourse era may be thankfully over but the debate i described above is still going on #it's just fucking sniping and neither side is listening to the other i can't bear it #anyway my point is tumblr has been doing this way longer than james has so please resist the urge to do this #everything in history is more complicated than that...everything! #personally i think that's what makes it great and have found the reality is much broader and better than making up my own #to keep myself happy...you know??

[howifeltabouthim]

. . . it's my translation, i.e. a cross between what he wrote and what I wanted him to say.

Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

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[rottingsick]

ppl who sh for attention are so valid because oh my god no one who isn't mentally ill would sh as a way to get attention

#text #rotting #mine #I think abt this a lot #'oh they're just doin it for attention' and? there's clearly a fuckin problem if that's how they choose to do such??? #no one whose mentally stable would ever go 'hehehe hohohooo I think it'd be funny to fake mental illness by actually self harmin' #honestly writin someone off bc its 'attention seekin' is just gonna make the problem worse... #I think bein attention seekin with sh is a product of neglect or their pain bein dismissed/ignored and sh is often used as a measurin tool #by many for 'how bad is it' no matter how wrong that is #so by sayin they're just attention seekin and dismissin their pain yer just reconfirmin their already held issues #honestly its wild how much of a 'no I don't actively sh or have any plans to commit die' will quell any urgency a doctor will have to treat #completely ignorin the fact I am 100% impulsive and have a history of doin shit and creatin the entire plan to attempt in one day #or get a little off my rockers and notice oh shit I just did that after it's already dmged myselff #but then again I don't feel like bein locked up because I honestly cannot give any consistent way to check #if they'll just stay intrusive thoughts or if they're gonna become reality #also not to go off on a further tangent but I hate the ppl on tiktok classifyin impulsive vs intrusive thought by whether you act on them #when you can 100% act on an intrusive thought... typically in delusion or in a way to make it stop or it's so overwhelmin you loose control #in my experience as a delusional bitch.. intrusive thoughts can and have won #and it can become hard to tell whether that's how I actually feel when my brain is violently tellin me it is #anyways that's a long road down a tangent but also not really and it did come full circle if you consider the fact that #the push to sh for attention is one of my intrusive thoughts eyooo #mostly born out of the fact my pain was never real enough to those around me. I was never considered sick enough. I had no proof of my pain #I was just a lost cause and it was all my fault. so yea. it did start as a way to try to make my pain real #altho it has warped and adapted overtime as my mental health has gone down a slippery slope to sh for attention from one person directly #guess I've been taught as I grew up that if I'm hurt enough I'll get attention I so desperately crave. always ignored if I wasn't in crisis #and I don't know how else to get what I want so even then I naturally just break down as it's my only ability instantly get attention #even if I'm not doin it on purpose I'm just so wired and trained to mentally or physically hurt myself in an explosive attempt #to get what I want regardless of if I want to take that method but the infightin in my head just makes it happen anyways #and it sucks because tbfh. it works. my behavior is reinforced almost constantly but it's also extremely dangerous to not be reinforced #cause then I don't know how to handle myself and get sui and it just sucks a lot

[appsa]

Literally impossible to read a book in the tpw trilogy and not like have to sit and think for hours and hours about what it means to be human for me lmao

#the wayyyy its a complete reversal of the first books ending while also coming full circle #god. god. #rin realising in book 1 that gods are just tools that humans use to cause unimaginable violence.... a rise to godhood for herself #vs rin realising in book 3 that this world is nothing but the imagination of gods and history always repeats #because gods are fond of patters #the descent into becoming a human again. a human who is scared of her best friend hating her for the rest of their lives #the way both times it came down to kitay rejecting her for the reality of the violence to crash in. he has always been her anchor. #im so ill guys im so mentally ill rn. #the way its a choice for rin the first time to call on the phoenix and it was a choice again to shut it out #i still havent articulated a conclusion yet. of what it means that rin had the choice to not partake in historys repition #just like kitay had the choice to resist her for the first time #what does it mean that nezha went back #is it that there will be more of the same violence and suffering but rin and kitay have set the precedent of free choice? #is it that there will always be new/old things to suffer thru but we will survive it like we always do? #nezha represents getting to collect and build something new after rin has razed everything to the ground so. #hm #also divinity = pain..... many thoughts #ill figure it out

[deadbeatdadjokes]

Lancer please if you’re still taking requests!

See this one was difficult anon bc I think about him literally nonstop so I have a great many thinks™️ about Lancer ough

Whether this ends up being true or not, Lancer probably grows up believing fully that he is the Prince of Legend, though he doesn’t understand the implications/responsibilities bc he’s like 6. The knight/coup probably happened when he was still little (just growing out of being a toddler) and since the door between the two sections of the dark worlds was sealed, it’s also likely that no one knew of Ralsei’s existence, or couldn’t be certain of his royal status if so since he’s an elusive dude (at the very least Spade didn’t seem to recognize him during the fight).

In that vein, King Spade superimposes that part of the prophecy onto the only “Prince from the Dark” that he knows, and in turn, as he spirals further and further out of control, believes that his son will be the one to aid in the destruction of their world. He makes no secret of this to Lancer, bc kids are malleable, impressionable little fuckers, and hopes that by placing this enormous weight on his shoulders it will manipulate and scare him into complete obedience. 

It...didn’t work (in the long run anyways, probably fucked him right up in the short term though). Probably bc Lancer wasn’t really listening (not his fault, he was trying but it’s like explaining calculus to a 9 year old he is just a little guy). Doesn’t help to have the one person in your life that’s supposed to love you no matter what despise you for crimes you not only didn’t commit, but have no possible way to prevent when the inevitable occurs. 

It’s just easier not to think about it, that is...until it’s too late. And by choosing his friends, he fulfills his role in a destiny that could have possibly been circumvented had King Spade been a better father. (or not. Who knows) 

#I do know he straight up sent his small child out on the front lines to fight his battles for him #which ok fine if he's down with it whatever bowser jr pop off #but the fact that Lancer was all by himself for the first confrontation with the great threat his father had been warning him about #for like years #doesn't sit right with me like hmmm #And Lancer can take care of himself bc he's resourceful and tough #but the more I think about that I get sad bc he had to be in order to survive in that hostile and at times violent environment #I do wanna say though that Lancer choosing not to allow himself to be victimized/used as someone else's bargaining chip/pawn #by openly defying his father in spite of his immense love for him ughh he literally allows everyone to beat the shit out of him #the entire chapter in the name of keeping the peace or maintaining the illusion that it's all just a game and they're having fun #playing 'good vs bad guys' until they approach the castle and the reality of what he's about to have to do hits him too fast #but in the end he takes matters into his own hands and does what he perceives to be the right thing #taking a stand when all the adults in the castle have done literally fuck all to help up until this point #GodDAMN #the most iconic moment in cinematic history #Lancer ilysm you deserve so much peace and rest and love and worms or whatever #deltarune #lancer deltarune #king spade #ask #thanks for stopping by 💜 #SORRY FOR WRITING AN APA ESSAY IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN

[horizon-verizon]

Aegon III and Jaehaera “healing together” would be like:

Jaehaera: I miss my father.

Aegon III, having a PTSD trigger: Well, I miss my mother! AND YOU KNOW WHO GRUESOMELY KILLED MY MOTHER WHILE I WAS WATCHING ?!

Jaehaera: And I miss my twin brother! AND YOU KNOW WHO SEND THE MEN WHO BEHEADED HIM IN FRONT OF ME & MY MOM ?!

Aegon III: Nothing would have happened if your grandmother didn’t usurped my mother and your uncle didn’t ruthlessly murdered my brother.

Their marriage would have been SOOO INCREDIBLY UGLY, BITTER, MISERABLE AND HOPELESS. That union never stood a chance. Aegon III spent about 3 years married to her and never made any attempt to befriend her and had more interactions with Unwin Peake’s daughter than her. They wouldn’t have any children, he’d abdicate in favor of Viserys if he didn’t marry Daenaera and then locked himself in a tower.

Yeah, I agree. I understand that the real English War of the Roses that war/sub-battles ended with a happier and successful marriage between the two warring houses of York and Lancaster so it seems that Aegon III and Jaehaera could have also had a great marriage--or at least a civil one with a lot of kids/heirs. However, though yes we had the structure of "one child of the two warring families marry for peace" of the War of Roses, the Dance was modeled and takes inspiration from the Anarchy. Where Empress Matilda fought against her male cousin, Stephen of Blois, for the English throne. Where the conflict was strictly about who deserves the throne: the female declared heir or the eldest male relative? And who will obtain it, who fights for them, who suffers, etc.

Plus Henry VII of the Plantagenet branch of Tudor (through Jon of Gaunt) & Elizabeth of the house of York--the people who married each other while from the opposing houses after the Battle of Bosworth Field--were both relatively healthy adults AND Henry actually won the throne through his own leadership in battle after killing Richard II (her paternal uncle). The same uncle whose mainly held responsible for Elizabeth's younger brothers' disappearances. So Henry & Elizabeth had a way better beginning than Aegon III & Jaehaera.

Even with the Anarchy, GRRM doesn't transfer all of the events or major ones/results into his fiction. The conclusion of the anarchy was still a woman being passed over: Stephen won and got to rule but Empress Matilda's son--Henry Plantagenet-- was designated as the next to rule in the Treaty of Wallingford. She wasn't brutally murdered in front of said son like Rhaenyra, and despite Stephen's efforts his own sons never sat the throne. But the war ravaged England as the Dance did Westeros enough that in both the lords/barons sought peace above all AND Matilda lost the throne. GRRM seemed to want to capture the sense of futility of the war's destruction. There was no happy-dappy marriage or even an attempt at one in the real thing.

Jaehaera was made totally disadvantaged for a reason:

a) making her and Aegon both children in the aftermath of the war, controlled by ambitious adults still who do not have their best interests at heart makes to highlight theie vulnerability and the cause being misogyny and classism leading those in power to declare such wars

b) their parents fighting and destroying each other to the bitter end instead of what occurred in the actual Anarchy

c) the greens pushed for war under the principle of "men only" at the cost of its female members' mental and physical health or putting those in danger (mainly Helaena and Jaehaera) for the sake of power. Jaehaera could have grown up happier and for longer if her own father hadn't decided to calm down and not try to go after several of Rhaenyra's supporters in the way that he was planning to, nor should he have usurped his older sister. He shouldn't have celebrated Lucerys' murder at the feast he threw that was almost certainly part of the inspiration for Blood & Cheese whereby his oldest male heir was killed. His other male heir was put into danger when he, again, usurped Rhaenyra and led armies against her when she had been already declared and ACCEPTED as Viserys heir for years. All he had left was his daughter left, but bc the whole point of his claim was "males only" AND he was himself an asshole, he decided to marry again to get another male heir. It was also Alicent who tried to intimidate or persuade her granddaughter to kill Aegon as if the child wasn't already scarred from war and mentally fragile from her disabilities so that she, Alicent, could get revenge against the already dead Rhaenyra. The greens, not the blacks or Rhaenyra, are the main ones at fault for Jaehaera's demise--her death is on their hands since every which way, they chose power over her.

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[rawralittlerawr]

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[beaversatemygrandma]

I’m watching an informative thing on the No Child Left Behind Act and whatnot, and I’m now suddenly aware of what exactly those teachers meant when they said that I skewed their test results just enough to save the school from shutting down.

Like, when i was in 3rd grade, i moved from a city with proper school funding to a small farm town in the middle of nowhere with Very Little funding. Like a school with 35 or so kids per grade, and maybe 120 total. Small enough that one kid Could Indeed alter the averages. I passed their standardized tests with flying colors bc most of that 3rd grade stuff was stuff i learned in previous years just now with the addition of multiplication and such. And well, due to the laws related to the No Child Left Behind Act, if the school wasn’t preforming well enough, its funding gets cut and slowly but surely gets to the point where it may have to shut down. (Yes, this is half the reason why schools in the US are awful.) As it turns out, that school was on its last legs and it was getting ready to shut down and transfer all of its kids to the city twenty miles away. Me and two other kids aced the test which skewed the average enough to leave them safe for the next two years. (I got them competitive bc I threatened their top student role tbh, the weird part is I was at most a B-average student when put into a proper school.) 

Anywho. That’s how I kept a town with a population of 800 keep its only elementary school because of an act from the government that was only put in place because America was too low in education averages in comparison to the rest of the world. (It got worse, btw. Shocking I know. /s)

#taks speaks #i also learned how the military recruiters got my personal info in high school #this act apparently had a thing in it that required schools to literally give that out #which turns into a metaphorical dodging of bullets in high school #now if thats not fucked up idk what is #but now i know the reality of some things that happened over 15 years ago #but good news about that school i managed to somehow save. the fave math teacher everyone had is now the principal #so good for him. he was a great teacher #its also still open to this day and im proud of that little village #they got everything together despite the gov literally trying to kill them and they did GREAT #it was also the first school that decided that there was something off about me and brought in a therapist #good on them. that's how my mom learned i have adhd. and then proceeded to hide it from me til i was 17 #it was a good school. it didn't deserve all that stuff #its odd seeing the different types of education between cities vs villages vs towns #and the difference between states #what i was doing in that city in 2nd grade was equal to like middle school in the town #im talking literary analysis that literally made me cry after reading a question #only the town and village were normal when it came to elementary school stuff #and THEN when i moved to FL history wasn't even part of the curriculum til middle school #i can't remember the city history stuff but according to my sister its there and well #but in the village. i got the best history classes. the village used to be a booming city after the civil war and well: history. #in FL you could assume that bc it was a history based town they assumed the kids would learn about it just from being there #but thats very much wrong. the history stuff out there was a tourist trap #the history stuff in the village was civil war cemeteries fifty feet from the school #like just a normal part of every day. early america was literally that area #these comparisons still baffle me tbh #like why doesnt FL teach kids history? and why was it so strong in VA? and why was NC so focused on critical thinking? #tho critical thinking is the most useful. even if it was given at a young enough age that it was incapable of being learned #and then critical thinking in FL only being introduced to honors students in middle school? and ONLY HONORS.

[nozomijoestar]

you reblogging so much of shin megami tensei got me back on playing the game i had for a while (smt5) but i'm really curious what the one ur reblogging is about

I want to play four (the one with the samurai) if that's the one you mean but if you mean three then that's Nocturne and I'm playing it now. You play a guy who with his two friends is spared the apocalypse but are left to all fend for themselves in the world after, infested with demons because the people that ended the world wanted to bring about the process of creating a new one. Instead of dying immediately in what's effectively now a waiting room with everyone from Heaven, Hell, and myth, the player is saved because some kid (won't spoil his identity) who's part of these forces likes you and makes you swallow a parasite. You become half human half demon. Because you're now half demon you get excluded from being able to make a Reason ie. come up with an idea for a world to replace the old one, then get sponsored by a demon to fight in the struggle to make your Reason the new world. But being excluded from making your own allows you to choose what Reason you'll sponsor and champion into existence, or you can reject all of them, or you can leave the world to be solely for demons. Among other routes.

It's demonic pokemon just like other mainline SMT in a philosophical thought experiment, because the only way to gain party members is by fighting then talking to demons to collect them. I just really like the different Reason philosophies and how they interact and what happens when you reject them all; I like what the game is trying to say about what defines a human being, even if they get made demonic, really what's the difference between a human being and a demon at all and so on. It's not very character driven, characters are more a representation of the themes, commentary the game is making etc. and implications of where those intersect or what's implied but in this case I think that's fine. The music is bangin and the atmosphere is fantastic. I know it has a reputation for being hard but so far I don't care when it'll get hard for me, the combat is fun; getting absorbed in everything else is the real reward. And I love Demi-Fiend's tattoos that are more like his demonic veins. Really that was the first thing that always made me wanna play, his design.

How do you not find this cool

#Yosuga Reason and Freedom Reason make the most sense to me because either humanity should either take responsibility for our free will #or be exterminated to make room again for all other life on the planet if we can't and devolve into cleaning each other out #all the others are either temporary short sighted parts of humanity's problems or abandon it to death entirely which ig is also ok #there's also the one where you do choose to be a pawn but in the long run what's being a pawn getting you tbh #and by just ok on the others is i mean i think the coin toss between favoring Yosuga or Freedom is more interesting here #'but why like Yosuga at all-' listen if something's not working it's not working that means you do the practical thing & eliminate it #i am not wishy washy kiddie gloves when it comes to humanity as a whole if we can't fix our shit w free will we have earned our destruction #extremely selfish to make everyone suffer living on the off chance something 'good' happens while we cause destruction & horror to ALL life #what is that really in clinging on to good things if not chasing pleasure for your fleeting gain and evil persists around or because of it #all truly is vanity #also I see zero difference between Yosuga social darwinism until we die out from reality as it is- minus the suppression of free will #we're already suffering Yosuga in a sense #if you can't use your free will for good and betterment for others esp those who can't use free will themselves and yourself then you die #sums up how i see getting to try Freedom vs / alongside Yosuga #might makes right is already exactly how the world works and how it always has worked #the entirety of human history to right now is who can kill and surpress the best to take from others- Yosuga just makes it obvious #and the sole principle to exist but it's already existed even in a world with free will and Freedom

[abstractmelons]

i actually think that basically all the knowledge i gained from university being about alexander the great is bad actually

#my nonsense #i can tell u abt his biographers #his campaigns #his relationships #his birth #his portrayal vs the reality which is a difficult contention #like #depicitions of him #but nothing abt anything else #:) yasssss gawd <3 #i became an alexander the great specialist #when my degree is ancient history and history #in my defence i have been very mentally ill so have done no work :) #slayyyyy #and about homosexuality i can somewhat speak on #particularly the history in uk and ancient rome greece

[gingerswagfreckles]

I think people need to understand that when someone says the situation in Israel/Palestine is complicated they are not necessarily saying that the discussion of who the oppressor vs oppressed is complicated. The Israeli government has been oppressing the Palestinians for a very long time, that is clear, and it is not complicated to understand that at least since the 80s they have had dramatically more financial and military power to keep control of the territory in the way they like.

However, it is reductive and dismissive to insist that there is no complexity in the potential ways to move forward to bring peace to the region. Despite what people on tumblr.edu like to believe, "Israel should never have been created" is not a practical solution to an incredibly heated geopolitical situation in the present day. Israel was created and it does exist. 10 million people live there. 74% of the population is native born and the country has existed for 75 years. Hand waving these fact away with the opinion that "they should move back to where they came from" may make you feel good about being a Radical Leftist, but it does not give anyone a road map for how exactly millions of people without dual citizenship are supposed to just up and evaporate. Nor does it acknowledge the reality that 21% of Israelis are Arabs, the very people you are claiming to want to give the land back to.

Insisting that there's nothing complicated about expecting an entire country's population to willingly dissappear with no consequences is not a productive way to think about this conflict. It ignores the many massive superpowers that have an interest in proping up different states in the region, the power dynamics involved in any land back movements, and the inevitably negative consequences of totally dissolving an established state without a plan. It is also completely and almost comically unrealistic, so much so that it makes it hard to believe that anyone who's opinion starts and ends with this idea really gives a shit about anyone who lives in the area as much as they care about their online leftist clout.

There's nothing complicated in understanding that the Israeli government is and has been maintaining an oppressive apartheid state for decades. It is, however, very complicated to come up with a realistic way to resolve some of the most intricately entangled land disputes on the planet without plunging the region into total chaos. Not everyone has to be deeply educated on every geopolitical situation, but it is very hard to take people seriously when they know nothing about the politics or history of a region and yet insist that there is nothing complicated about it at all.

There's a lot of people on this website who are getting dangerously smug about their own ignorance, and are starting to go down Qanon type anti-intellectual paths in the name of being sufficiently radical. Not knowing the details of a very convoluted land dispute isn't something to brag about online as you call for intentionally reductive solutions. You can support the Palestinian cause and be aware of the oppression they have faced while also holding off on calling people trying to do real analysis and de-escalation work bootlickers. We need to get control of the urge to fit every global issue into a simplistic YA novel narrative structure that appeals to Western revolutionary fantasies.

#gingerswagfreckles #israel #palestine #israel palestine conflict #i/p #i/p conflict