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I sent this to some friends with my own added text of "Russia: doing a genocide. Israel: totally a-ok, no genocide here, carry on"
One of the people surprised me with a "how can you possibly think Russia isn't trying to genocide Ukraine" and was completely flabbergasted that I was actually suggesting that Israel fucking is.
Even if that's the way you think, I thought my sarcasm was perfectly clear and would be obvious to them what my stance is...
You think you know some people.
Ukraine: 12,340 civilians killed in nearly 3 years
Gaza: 44,786 civilians killed in just over a year
That is 12 times as many. How can ~~you~~ they possibly conclude that Russia is conducting a genocide, but Israel isn't?
(These are confirmed kills, the actual numbers are of course a lot higher in both cases)
I interpreted their comment as both Israel and Russia are committing genocide?
yeah sorry it was directed at the parent commenter's friends. I probably should have made that clear, my bad
I believe that by "you" they mean other people, not actually the person they were responding to. That is to say, the commenter is agreeing with the previous one, not criticizing them.
exactly, thank you :)