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I hate that it's even necessary to make a personal qualification on the good-ness/bad-ness of either group.
I shouldn't have to say "I hate both", I would like to simply observe - "The current conflict is - in part - a result of decades of systemic oppression and disenfranchisement on the basis of religious nationalism" - without someone jumping down my throat to accuse me of antisemitism or of supporting a terrorist group.
Yep, but the team sports! You gotta make it clear you're not rooting for anyone, you just want people to stop dying. But that means you have to condemn, cause if you don't, the team sports people think you're talking bad about them (and that doesn't cause any alarms in their heads to go off, cause "they made me feel bad" instead of "maybe this shouldn't be a team thing")
But yeah, that's a part of being human, as frustrating as that is. Our brains want to make "us and them" cause that's a remnant of how we survived. We don't need it any more, but that doesn't change that that's in our programming.