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One of my classes has been talking about the Israeli-Hamas thing for the past couple days. How are you all dealing with interacting with libs? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Surprisingly, despite being in the south, most people seem to support Palestine. Except for this one trump supporting guy who screams that Israel is the "only democracy" in the middle east and how the Muslims are "terrorists" It's kind of funny because just a couple days ago, he was screeching "America First! America First! Stop giving aid to Ukraine. Take care of our own!" (Not a bad thing) but apparently, Israel doesn't count and we "need to send them more money."

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

I remember how it felt after 9/11, where it was like a deluge of hatred against Muslims and bloodthirsty. It was frightening.

Right now feels different. I haven't encountered a lot of pro-Israel people, even the conservatives and libs seem wary. I live in the south too. The only bloodthirsty type I've encountered so far is an ex-marine coworker who is a surface level lunatic. He keeps complaining the IDF has too much trans activism to fight against Hamas, so that's the type of rhetoric I'm hearing.

It's all been either tepid sort of "war is bad" or just unhinged racist conspiracy theories. Actually feels a lot different than the initial Iraq War surge.