• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Netanyahu is doing to Palestine (and Muslims) the same thing Putin is doing to Ukraine (and Ukrainians) yet the former is lauded while the latter is (rightfully) demonised.

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      1 year ago

      Major difference: Palestinians are brown. Ukrainians are white.

      Now you know why the West cares about one and not the other.

      • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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        1 year ago

        A PoC podcast host that I listen to kept asking guests (it’s a political show) if they thought that explained the difference in response during the first weeks of the war. Nice reminder of this salient fact.