#literally so many instances of companies “promoting genocide” were easily explainable by the “rally around the flag” effect | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

blastoiseblue · 9 months ago

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Anyone else remember how people got up in arms about a tweet from overwolf on october 10th that had since been deleted? Even if we were to accept the narrative that Israel intends to commit a genocide (which has still never been proven,) that still wouldn't have been evident within *3 days* of the 10/7 attack. But since the company is based in Israel, people skipped right past "well, that aged badly" and went straight to "(((Overwolf))) is knowingly promoting a (((genocide)))"

"X Company is funding GENOCIDE!"

[goes to look up what this means, turns out CEO signed a letter encouraging a peaceful end to the current war but that specifically calls out Hamas]

every fecking time.

Either that, or their "funding" is having branches in Israel, and not even in the settlements either.

#this was back when I hadn't noticed the tankies going completely mask-off yet #so I thought “surely they accounted for the date of the tweet that's visible in the screenshot right?”#but in hindsight it was so blatantly bad-faith #literally so many instances of companies “promoting genocide” were easily explainable by the “rally around the flag” effect #Israel had just been attacked OF COURSE people would post messages of support for their military while they're still reeling from the attack #this conspiratorial mindset only makes sense if you believe Israel as a whole had planned this ahead of time #it feels like antizionists don't see jews as human so much as they see them as “feigning” humanity #you see it in how people accuse jews of “weaponizing” antisemitism #how they claim Israeli women are “weaponizing” claims of having been r*ped by hamas #how they go nuclear when an american jewish foundation airs an ad about antisemitism that doesn't so much as mention the levant #how some people go “um actually Israel paid for ads about the hostages” as though that would make the response any less disgusting #or how people have ripped down posters of *hostages* and claimed that it's just propaganda #thst the families of the hostages are crisis actors

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