• doben@lemmy.ml
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      19 hours ago

      You realize that’s a childish take, right? I stated a few facts, not even sympathy with Russia, surely not any defence of the Russian aggression.

      But I’ve heard commentary like that before. It’s usually from racists (Zionist) reacting in the very same way, when people show solidarity with Palestinians. They also say “Why don’t you go to Gaza, if you love them so much”. It’s quite deranged.

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        8 hours ago

        Jesus Christ, I don’t think you were supposed to respond to this one, but here we are.

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          7 hours ago

          You certainly should be able to differentiate between “Gaza and Russia are the same” and “The racist mechanic towards the people (of Western enemies) is the same”. Are you?

          If you’d want to discuss how Russia’s and Palestine’s existence, both are threatened by US and European imperialism, we could do that. But this thread is about the kind of rhetoric people use to dehumanize the other, the evil Hamas or the evil Russian or the evil Mullahs, again, the groups standing in the way of Western hegemony, the enemy we’ve all learned to hate through media such as the ones mentioned above.