#neutrality in the face of genocide means siding with the oppressor
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dicksoka · 10 months ago
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Nvm add Rick riordan to the list of people who have eventually disappointed me. Free Palestine, end the occupation and don’t watch Percy Jackson on Disney plus, stream it elsewhere. No money for Zionism
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arionawrites · 1 year ago
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genuinely i do not understand how people can look at the atrocities happening to palestine and the palestinian people and just not fucking say anything. how do people live with themselves sitting back and doing nothing. i don’t care if i lose my job i don’t care if my family disagrees and disowns me i don’t want a job that supports genocide i don’t want family that back ethnic cleansing moments like now are how you know who the right people are and who to condemn
this is not a moment to do or say nothing. neutrality in the face of genocide is not neutrality. you are siding with the oppressors and supporting the war crimes and crimes against humanity that israel has been making palestine suffer for 75 years.
are you angry about innocent israeli citizens suffering? good! me too! it’s the fault of the israeli government that there are israeli people suffering. it is not a war when one end has full control over the resources of the other. israel can turn off every single resource that gaza needs to keep its people alive. that is not war. israel is in complete and total control and palestine has accepted that doing nothing will kill them anyway so they may as well die fighting to be free.
and people are doing NOTHING? people are SUPPORTING ISRAEL? fucking abhorrent.
fuck you. fuck every single person staying silent and letting israel get away with this. fuck every single celebrity and public figure spreading misinformation and standing with israel. i hope every single person who has done nothing rots in their guilt over the endless innocent lives being slaughtered and bombed in palestine. that blood is on israel and supporting israel means that blood is partially on you, too.
free palestine.
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wernher-von-brawny · 1 year ago
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“It’s a complex and… uh… difficult situation.”
Is it? Is it really?
A few years back, after the last atrocity in Palestine -- or maybe the one before that, or the one before that; feels like they’re more frequent than California wildfires, doesn’t it? -- I had a friend of mine drop the ‘both sides’ thing on me to justify not condemning Israel’s then-current round of incremental genocide -- even in that one private conversation.
Despite a 70+ year long trail of documented evidence of crimes against humanity, they still avowed neutrality as the reasonable and sensible response to a ‘complex and difficult’ situation.
Yeah, of course they’re a Boomer. Did you even need to ask?
Needless to say I've avoided them since. I spent decades overlooking their… tendencies, but this kind of mendacity…
I mean, if they couldn’t even summon up a modicum of moral backbone in a private conversation…
It’s come to the point that I have more… precise language escapes me at the moment, so let’s use ‘respect’ as a placeholder, so… it’s come to the point that I have more ‘respect’ for open bigots and fascists than for these craven “I’m economically conservative, but socially liberal” dipshits.
As Eli Weisel put it, “Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.”
One notch below those who support oppression -- at least in my book -- are those smug, comfortable bastards who pretend they’re not condoning oppression -- and even aiding and abetting it -- by choosing neutrality in the face of injustice.
“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice”, bitch.
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Inaction to inhumanity is not an option.
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aishaoliviahanovich · 9 months ago
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Anecdote as to why Neutral People are white supremacist and on the side of the oppressor- Isnotreal (or follow the 15 rules of white supremacy) and an explanation as to why they do so.
Ps. Complacency and Neutrality is being on the side of the oppressor because it is allowing the oppressor to continue its subjugation and oppression of people without prevention or punishment.
I have noticed this behaviour in many ‘neutral’ people and am now able to articulate it. One point part of white supremacy that needs to be talked but isn’t in this anecdote is objectivity (the view that one belief leads to truth and everything else is bad) and using it by saying there isn’t enough evidence for objective stance to make a conclusion and it’s too complicated (even though 27,000 people and counting have died) and using things being complicated as an excuse for complacency.
Let me start by saying:
1.The Preservation of white supremacy starts with the willingness of silence as well as a learned helplessness (lack of action because you feel as if you can’t make an impact/ change a situation) and lack of accountability of privilege.
Being able to ignore a genocide is a privilege, as well as consumerism that isn’t conscious.
2. Another privilege and show of silence is: If people didn’t talk about systemic problems and oppression (like in Palestine).If you don’t talk about the oppressive systems that impact people (whether they benefit you or not( because people in power have a subconscious and conscious need to keep those systems in place)) would never change ,so being silent is passive and is inherent support of the oppressor and their ideas. Because being silent is doing nothing and allowing our governments to continue to subjugate other people.
As well as (in America at least) your taxes being used to fund a genocide. Meaning you are partially responsible, so to prevent more money from going to Israel you must boycott and put pressure on governments.
If not you are supporting the white supremacist state, Israel, and their ideologies, because you’re funding them and being complacent.
3. When you are in a position of financial stability and privilege and choose not to do targeted boycotts and continue to buy off corporations that support genocide. You are an active participant in genocide and are funding those who are killing innocent people in 2 genocide (let not forget about Congo). It’s also very individualistic only caring about your own comforts.( 2 rules of white supremacy: Right to comfort and Individualism).
Now let’s talk about the anecdote that I use to explain this (I’ll number the sections so I can make my point underneath in red so you can skip to that and read the list. The anecdote is just is a dissection and provides context into the mind of people):
1. I remember arguing to this white gay guy ( the gay part is important for context and white because it does show he lot of privilege because being a white man born in a first ) about Palestine and how he was a terrible ignorant person for buying from Starbucks when he knew they were supporting a genocide. I vividly remember not even a week before he was talking about how he would go to Dubai but said he refuses to because they don’t gay people (So he could clearly boycott but only when it benefits him).
1. A sign of individualism and centralising oneself in something that that doesn’t involve oneself. As well as only caring about when it impacts you, but not when it involves other people who are facing oppression
2.He was talking saying that I shouldn’t be bothered about him because Ken person ‘can’t do anything’ and he doesn’t get into politics.
2.complacency and victimisation that comes with a false sign of helplessness , with his not being able to have an impact or to change a situation, which is harmful because it is again letting people in power do what they want without interference. If everyone thought that way nothing would be done. Example of small actions that led to big changes: boycotts of companies that supported South African apartheid.
3. I then mentioned that people were being ethnic cleansed, tortured, mass murdered, colonised and more.
And he asked why I was even bothered(showing a lack of empathy or care for other people and their situations). In a really sarcastic way but I chose to give a normal answer.
3.not understanding or caring for other’s struggles especially when it doesn’t centralise him (narcissism, individualism and dehumanisation). That’s why the gay part was so important for this point. Shown in many people who say things like ‘I’m still going to buy from there’ or ‘I don’t care it doesn’t involve me’
4. I responded that it’s important to me because of my identity and culture and that I’m going solidarity to people who have faced mass murders, Islamophobia, racism and colonialism because I am a black Muslim African woman and my people have been through similar struggles so I will fight for people gone through that struggle.
In simpler words showing solidarity with people who have faced similar issues.
He preceded to say that I was using the ‘ race card’.
I said it was about racism, because A. Israel’s occupation and propaganda is heavily rooted in anti-palestinianism as well as the way the wider western media presents. B. A genocide is literally the murder of a race. And C. Israel is a white supremacist state and racial supremacist state so supporting companies that support them is inherently racist. I also told him that if we really want to talk about race than he he needs to acknowledge how privileged he and I Both are for being born in a first world country and him being a white man in a first world country who has never faced the impacts of colonialism, racism, Islamophobia or Anti-Arabism.
4. Inherently racist rhetoric, shows how they view people of colour talking about struggles and probably an extension of how they view a wider spectrum of people of colours issue with disregard and defensiveness (another rule of white supremacy) examples being neutrality on Palestine and Congo (but probably not Ukraine), with ‘race cards’. But also the lack of acknowledgment of ones privilege especially being from a first world country.
5. When he realised that that arguement didn’t work at all he went into defensiveness saying ‘people are attacking him when he said he’s not going to respond to people because he’s already said he’s neutral and wants to stay out of the war cause it’s politics’.
5. I’ll reiterate this again neutrality is complacency and that isn’t a valid excuse.That ignoring a genocide is chosen ignorance. That’s like saying I’m ignoring the h0l0c&ust because I’m not into politics when it’s about humanity. A lot of neutral (really pro-Israel people use it as a justification as to why they can allow themselves to continuously support murder for themselves to be comfortable).
By this I was just getting annoyed, angry and called him ignorant and told him that the reason people don’t like him is because he’s rude, ignorant and misogynistic ( he was victim blaming a girl for wearing a crop top and going out the day after being SA’d and saying that she wouldn’t be wearing if she really was SA’d, which I called him out for in the past and was the reason I didn’t like or speak to him). That he was a terrible human being for not even acknowledge his part in colonialism and this genocide and being wilfully ignorant, in a place of financial stability. Which we need to tell who are in places of privilege but are ignorant
But the main things I’ve seen from hear and wider spread people are: a disregard for human life and justification of genocide for comfort. And in 15 rules of white supremacy:
Defensiveness
Using Either or Thinking (‘all murder is bad, so I believe in peace and I believe in peace for both side’ mentality
Right to Comfort
Fear of Open Conflict (choosing ignorance and staying out of conflict for piece of mind instead of helping other people’s and facing reality)
Individualism
Dehumanisation
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