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Look, I grew up in a seriously abusive household which caused me constant psychological distress and I can relate to hearing the key in the front door being the "Oh shit, here it comes... I wonder what shit is going to come down on me today" feeling.
What I cannot tolerate is the idea that this is in any way close to what the US and its shitbag allies inflicted upon Afghanistan.
Does this person seriously believe that the counterinsurgency work, the rampant human rights abuses, the kidnapping and literal torture, the fucking war for God's sake, etc. inflicted by the NATO axis upon Afghanistan is in any way comparable to an abusive household?
Do they think that the issues of domestic violence didn't occur in Afghanistan during the war and the occupation, like they were somehow put on pause, rather than the war and occupation compounding the trauma that abused children in Afghanistan faced and continue to face today as a consequence of the war?
Have they no idea how domestic violence rates increase as a direct result from war and occupation? Or do they just have no compassion for other victims of abuse?
Did their psychologically abusive father happen to use depleted uranium weapons on them, for fuck's sake?
This is just gross and a classic case of a victim not only appropriating the trauma of other survivors but using that appropriation to silence the very victims whose trauma they are appropriating and they should be disgusted in themselves for doing this, if they had any capacity for humility or shame.
To steelman what you're replying to, I can understand finding it difficult to care about another tragedy, even one as large and affecting as many people as that, when you have your own personal tragedy to deal with on a daily basis.