• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      no worries, i think you just misunderstood what i was trying to say. not your fault - i probably shouldn’t have been so vague.

      i’m a white non-religious dude from canada. i don’t have a place in this fight. i still have opinions, though, and what’s happening in gaza right now is a fucking holocaust. i think we’re both on the same side, and i admire your conviction.

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        13 hours ago

        Or what would he expect someone to do? The best you can do is share information, information that you’ve been simply told yourself. Every time I’ve tried to express the opinion that “yeah that’s not OK” I end up bombarded with whataboutism and do you even begin to comprehend the previous 3000 years of history and how dare you have an opinion when you didn’t even consider why they’re doing it etc etc etc.

        By the end I just give up. I can’t even be sure Israel actually exists. It’s on maps. People talk about it. I haven’t actually been there and verified it’s real, never mind what goes on over that way.

        Turns out all you can actually do is keep your own little world clean.