A Boring Dystopia

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Modern apartheid. (lemmy.world)

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

What's it really about?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Assuming you're not baiting it's an extremely complex answer of which there are a multitude of factors including but not limited to

Religious exceptionalism (they are the chosen children of G-d)
Inability to adequately separate religious identity from cultural identity (a criticism of one is a criticism of the other)
Right wing lunacy (fuck Benjamin)
Superiority complex (see point one)
Historical prescident removing ability to discuss

For each of these points there is a lot and I mean a fuckton of nuance. But as someone who has spent the better part of 20 years in and around the community despite all the good people and caring people and loving people there is this underbelly that can do no wrong and cannot be reasoned with. There is a part in any conversation around the discussion of Israel and Palestine where there is no dialogue.

In that, both sides have failed spectacularly but it has to be stated that only one side has the full unequivocal support of the US government and yet still behaves like a bully in the playground because of something that happened years ago.

Hurt people hurt people. I would argue that Jews as a people continue to have trauma from WW2.

Now before anyone flips their shit remember that people are entitled their opinions and regardless of if you agree or disagree I'd like to think when it comes to what I have experienced those opinions are valid.