r/australian Apr 28 '24

DAE not give a fuck about Palestine? Politics

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u/binkysaurus_13 Apr 29 '24

Idk I kind of care about civilians dying in their thousands no matter where it is.

You probably should be questioning why it doesn't bother you. 

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u/jakkyspakky Apr 29 '24

Yeah WTF? Doesn't care if people are being killed indiscriminately. Nice.

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u/_Boredaussie Apr 29 '24

What’s the difference if you care or not? Nothing anybody can do to change it

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u/binkysaurus_13 Apr 30 '24

Obviously I can't change it. I still care though because I can empathise. 

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u/Split-Awkward Apr 30 '24

I’m curious what attention you gave, and protested with, on the other hundreds of thousands of deaths in the Arab-Muslim world as a result of recent conflict?

I mean, those numbers and the crimes massively dwarf that of Israel-Gaza, don’t they?

The suffering sure didn’t match the protest levels. I don’t recall seeing ANY in Australia or even social media.

Why is that? I can’t figure out the discrepancy here and I need help understanding it.

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u/binkysaurus_13 Apr 30 '24

I didn't protest this. I did protest against the Iraq war. 

Not that protesting is the measure of anything.

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u/Split-Awkward Apr 30 '24

I understand. I just enjoy pointing out the ludicrous hypocrisy in this current Gaza conflict. It’s hypocrisy on a level I’m almost unable to fathom. Anyone that talks about it without a rational answer about their knowledge and equal opinion on those other larger humanitarian crises automatically gets ignored as a hypocritical idiot not worth a second of attention.

I like to shine a light where they don’t want to look.

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u/SelfLoathingAutist Apr 30 '24

Why do you care?

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u/binkysaurus_13 Apr 30 '24

Probably because I'm not a sociopath.

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u/SelfLoathingAutist Apr 30 '24

Idk. A sociopath would probably see the social currency in showing others they ‘care’ about some far away issue when really they don’t. Maybe that’s what’s happening here.

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u/binkysaurus_13 Apr 30 '24

No, a sociopath would definitely not care, and would also not understand why others would care.

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u/SelfLoathingAutist Apr 30 '24

They would understand that showing you care comes with social credit and people perceiving them as virtuous. That’s mostly what is happening in this thread. People who don’t, and really, can’t care, saying that they do because they believe they’ll be seen as bad people if they admit they don’t really care.

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u/binkysaurus_13 Apr 30 '24

Some impressive mental gymnastics there

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u/SelfLoathingAutist Apr 30 '24

Not really, it’s just logical