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I feel like I’m actually going insane (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We all know the hypocrisies of the pro- Israel stances, I’m not going into specific arguments but it’s just everywhere. Normal people seem to have bought in even quicker than they did with supporting Ukraine. it’s awful. Free Palestine.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I really should be adding a qualifier of “White Americans” more often when I make generalizations about “Americans” loving genocide, being ignorant about the world, holding their own uninformed opinions to be gospel truth, etc.

I’m very critical of Evangelical Christianity but even there White Evangelical Christianity and Black Evangelical Christianity are almost like two different religions in many ways.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

most black people opposed the war in Iraq from the start!! and vietnam!!!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

made me think of this

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?

No, I am not going ten thousand miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over. This is the day when such evils must come to an end. I have been warned that to take such a stand would put my prestige in jeopardy and could cause me to lose millions of dollars which should accrue to me as the champion.

But I have said it once and I will say it again. The real enemy of my people is right here. I will not disgrace my religion, my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice, freedom and equality…

If I thought the war was going to bring freedom and equality to 22 million of my people they wouldn’t have to draft me, I’d join tomorrow. But I either have to obey the laws of the land or the laws of Allah. I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I’ll go to jail. We’ve been in jail for four hundred years.

—Muhammad Ali

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i love him so much. although i also like the fictionalized quote as well, very succinct. how do we not have a Muhammad Ali emote?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We need a word we can throw around that stands generally for white, cis-het, global north, middle class wealth, etc. attitudes. WASP is close.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Call em crackers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Another great option!

Though as a yt myself it might come off a little sus.