Fifty years ago, I joined in protests against the Vietnam war. Today the mainstream media is smearing pro-Palestine student protests in ways that are even worse than how we were slandered back then.
The white washing of history to make Hamas look like the good guys is atrocious
When “Hamas” is the label you slap on the corpse to justify the killing, you quickly run into the problem of explaining why “Hamas” look like a pile of dead children.
We saw the same game play out in Vietnam. We’d send marines into a village to do a Zippo Raid of a village we suspected of harboring dissidents and their supply caches. Consequently, we burned down the homes of countless bystandars and built up a large public hatred for American military occupation.
“The Vietcong are no angles!” did little to bring Americans around in favor of Vietnam. The My Lai Massacre photos did little to justify the atrocities we committed. In the end, the picture of a Vietnamese resident during the war stopped being a Soviet-trained guerrilla and started to look more like a bunch of crying naked children.
You can claim we “whitewashed” history to make the Vietnamese insurgents look good. But the truth of the matter is that we shouldn’t have been over there and we shouldn’t have committed all those horrendous acts. Trying to claim that the Vietnamese deserved it is a fool’s errand.
Much like the Americans after Vietnam, Israel won’t be able to wash their hands of this blood for a generation.
The article forgot to mention the most important one that all the softheaded twats that still watch TV news are getting fed: that anyone protesting Israel’s genocide is lumped in with the very, very, very few lunatics that actually support Hamas.
Those redundant muffins are actually lapping that bullshit up, along with “anyone that’s against Israeli policies is antisemetic”.
You sound like you might be one of those chucklefucks.
Hamas are the good guys bro didn’t you hear? Honest to God freedom fighters. Their death cult and martyrdom complex has nothing to do with their relationship with surrounding countries
Most of the people in that community have very different views as to the purpose of the protests, to put it nicely. Really though, it’s clear by many of the commenters’ own admission, they have no idea why protests are happening, why this conflict is different, and why it’s taking place on college campuses. Again, fascinating stuff
It’s worrisome to see. They’ve gotten so used to shrugging off irrelevant hate speech of Jews as a people, that now they’re shrugging off valid criticism of a genocide. The gentiles cried wolf.
I’m all against Israel’s attack on Gaza and all the atrocities.
The white washing of history to make Hamas look like the good guys is atrocious, so I can’t in good conscience support any of these protests.
When “Hamas” is the label you slap on the corpse to justify the killing, you quickly run into the problem of explaining why “Hamas” look like a pile of dead children.
We saw the same game play out in Vietnam. We’d send marines into a village to do a Zippo Raid of a village we suspected of harboring dissidents and their supply caches. Consequently, we burned down the homes of countless bystandars and built up a large public hatred for American military occupation.
“The Vietcong are no angles!” did little to bring Americans around in favor of Vietnam. The My Lai Massacre photos did little to justify the atrocities we committed. In the end, the picture of a Vietnamese resident during the war stopped being a Soviet-trained guerrilla and started to look more like a bunch of crying naked children.
You can claim we “whitewashed” history to make the Vietnamese insurgents look good. But the truth of the matter is that we shouldn’t have been over there and we shouldn’t have committed all those horrendous acts. Trying to claim that the Vietnamese deserved it is a fool’s errand.
Much like the Americans after Vietnam, Israel won’t be able to wash their hands of this blood for a generation.
The French shouldn’t have ever been there and they got their asses served to them. Then muricans said hold my beer and got served too.
The article forgot to mention the most important one that all the softheaded twats that still watch TV news are getting fed: that anyone protesting Israel’s genocide is lumped in with the very, very, very few lunatics that actually support Hamas.
Those redundant muffins are actually lapping that bullshit up, along with “anyone that’s against Israeli policies is antisemetic”.
You sound like you might be one of those chucklefucks.
Hamas are the good guys bro didn’t you hear? Honest to God freedom fighters. Their death cult and martyrdom complex has nothing to do with their relationship with surrounding countries
Yeah, it’s particularly bad here on Lemmy.
Here’s an alternative, have fun!
God damn, is that fascinating
Most of the people in that community have very different views as to the purpose of the protests, to put it nicely. Really though, it’s clear by many of the commenters’ own admission, they have no idea why protests are happening, why this conflict is different, and why it’s taking place on college campuses. Again, fascinating stuff
It’s worrisome to see. They’ve gotten so used to shrugging off irrelevant hate speech of Jews as a people, that now they’re shrugging off valid criticism of a genocide. The gentiles cried wolf.