Umm cowbee, have you considered that by the oppressor’s own laws, norms, or terms the violence is legitimate? Whereas the stinky oppressed are doing illegal bad violence or terrorism.
Legit I encounter this attitude heaps and have difficulty communicating the problem with it. Especially the often invisible but implicit violent threat that precedes any violent resistance and thus causes the violence.
It’s really hard to explain why reasonable people resort to armed resistance and the associated atrocities without lighting up the parts of their brain that get them to go “Are you saying terrorism is good?” and shutting down.
Oh yea you’re 100% correct. For some reason, people would rather pick arbitrary starting points for history, like October 7th, precisely to erase the near century of context and genocide behind why Al-Aqsa Flood happened in the first place. It’s all rhetoric and not based in truth, but they use it to make themselves seem reasonable.
Umm cowbee, have you considered that by the oppressor’s own laws, norms, or terms the violence is legitimate? Whereas the stinky oppressed are doing illegal bad violence or terrorism.
Nooooo you foiled me! I forgot that resistance to genocide is illegal… 🫠
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Legit I encounter this attitude heaps and have difficulty communicating the problem with it. Especially the often invisible but implicit violent threat that precedes any violent resistance and thus causes the violence.
It’s really hard to explain why reasonable people resort to armed resistance and the associated atrocities without lighting up the parts of their brain that get them to go “Are you saying terrorism is good?” and shutting down.
Hard to explain without endorsing sometimes.
Oh yea you’re 100% correct. For some reason, people would rather pick arbitrary starting points for history, like October 7th, precisely to erase the near century of context and genocide behind why Al-Aqsa Flood happened in the first place. It’s all rhetoric and not based in truth, but they use it to make themselves seem reasonable.