If we all do that, we’re abandoning a concept that was created for the defense of humanity. This seems a betrayal of the people who created it, the people who were’t saved, and it puts us into a moral abyss the idea was created to avoid. The conditions you describe are present in all genocides.
I think reaching ppl in your personal circles is the most important thing an individual can do. The reason I pointed this out isn't to downplay the treatment of Gazans (it's objectively evil and murderous) but to note that getting a message across to people you know can be achieved in multiple ways
Definitely agree with that.
like, for context, I am a 6 foot 5 blonde hair blue eyed guy with a German last name that married into a very middle of the road Jewish family with direct descendants who were killed in the Holocaust and all have generally Israel friendly view ( hate Bibi tho) Why would I bring up loaded terms...
instead of just stating my principles of "not casually killing thousands of citizens by any organization or state?" It's easier *and* more effective esp given my particular social skills or lack thereof etc
But everyone I know has had to slowly re-think some things they believed because it is so incomprehensible. It can be a process.So they know, and they do not know, and can’t believe it. The amount of lies people have absorbed to this point is vast plus the unthinkable nature of the actions.
agreed. And fwiw, one of the first things I wrote about this invasion was to point out how a very dumb (and very Zionist) professor invented a conspiracy about Hamas to promote himself and theories about Hamas, the organization blog.esghound.com/p/that-hamas...
So that is why descendants of Holocaust survivors I know are not like this and were the first people to speak out since they were taught by their parents to observe when everyone seems to be lying, to not trust conformity but to fear for other people, and defend them even if there is a cost to you.
I think that’s more a guy who basing the opinions much more on his social sector than on anything about being Jewish. HIS crowd approves, so he flogs X beliefs. People in some social sectors—they just don’t care what’s true, they only care what they are allowed to think. That is how Biden was imo.
Yeah—only people we know who would object to term genocide are elderly. Now they do not. Most people I know who are descendants of survivors were the first to see it was genocide for a very long time…except for one very old person but now she sees. All we do is talk about the Holocaust and Gaza.