#we are watching the world trend into horror and western leftists are applauding

[glassrunner]

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#insights #we are watching the world trend into horror and western leftists are applauding #normally i love western leftists. we are so quick to stand against what we perceive to be injustice #but two days ago a close friend of mine for many years retweeted that video of the concordia student screaming ‘you fucking kike’ #the next day another friend retweets a post saying that hamas should have killed more #that rape isn’t rape when it’s against colonizers #so many of my friends agreeing that it’s okay to dehumanize people you don’t like #i am no expert in what qualifies as deserving of respect but i was raised to believe that every human being deserves basic respect. #i’m not sympathetic to the israeli government at all and i hope they face repercussions for the crimes they’ve committed #but i am so so scared that so many people are watching ‘death to the jews’ trend worldwide and saying ‘they deserved it’ #it went from anti-colonialism to anti-semitism and there is a REAL lack of acknowledgement of that #meanwhile palestinians still suffer and all of this global hatred and insistence on black and white isn’t helping #jewish people everywhere had a right to be paranoid because they’ve seen this before and the left just laughed it off #probably now the same people who are holding pitchforks and thinking that hatred will solve injustice #i want a free palestine and for anti-semitism to not exist because these are compatible ideas #if you see anti-semitism or anti-arab sentiments please do call it out. #i didn’t make this into a textpost because i was afraid it would get passed around in a bad way #i’m sure somebody will still read this and scream ‘ISRAEL SYMPATHIZER!’ #honestly we should all criticize the israeli government (as so many israelis do) #but there are also a lot of free thinkers going ‘jews control the narrative / the world’ like that isn’t some of the pre-holocaust thinking #and they refuse to acknowledge it. #anyways i’m terrified for the world and for humanity and its strange urge to destroy itself