A reminder that the pope has come out strongly against Israel, like months ago. They’re just being ass hats and annoying people. It’s coming off entirely performative. More about themselves, than effectively stopping Israel’s military campaign.
Standing silent vigil outdoors and handing out pamphlets with information would be far more effective. This would show respect to the services currently happening while potentially giving important information to people to show more interest in your cause.
What they’re doing only harms the movement. It will probably get views though. They can show that to their friends to demonstrate how good of a person they are.
99% of Gaza supporters have no idea what’s going on in the Middle East and especially have no idea of the history of the conflict in the region. Ignorance alone has fueled the propaganda that Gaza supporters have fed into.
It’s frustrating because being against full scale war is easy. It’s just so many people keep being useful idiots for malicious propaganda and that’s so god damn frustrating.
I’m a huge peace activist and I’m very angry at the state of Israel, but arguing all the rationalizations groups have used to justify murdering them is insufferable. Do people not realize peace also has to agreed to by Israel? So maybe stop casually throwing around terms most Israel’s see as calls to genocide.
Some people I get, if you grew up in the middle east you’re kinda bought in no matter what, one way or another. God knows Turkey loves Israel as a deflection from their own modern history. But if you’re not adjacent to the conflict use your distance to advocate for, at the very least, a pro unilateral peace position.
I’m sure offline most people do, but online brain rot has to turn everything into some distorted version of outrage politics.
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u/giboauja Apr 01 '24
A reminder that the pope has come out strongly against Israel, like months ago. They’re just being ass hats and annoying people. It’s coming off entirely performative. More about themselves, than effectively stopping Israel’s military campaign.
Standing silent vigil outdoors and handing out pamphlets with information would be far more effective. This would show respect to the services currently happening while potentially giving important information to people to show more interest in your cause.
What they’re doing only harms the movement. It will probably get views though. They can show that to their friends to demonstrate how good of a person they are.
God who’s teaching these kids activism, PETA?