#the comments on Al Jazeera's story about Israeli government paying SOME Palestinian influencers to spout Zionist propaganda are disgusting!!

[akajustmerry]

in any marginalised group of people there will always be people who support political and social ideas that are detrimental to themselves, their community and outwardly bigoted in some way. this is because no marginalised group is a monolith and being marginalised will never produce any one specific kind of morality in any group. "how are there homophobic/transphobic lgbt people?" "how are there anti-feminist women?" "how are there people from migrant families supporting immigration crackdowns?" "how could someone who grew up in poverty hate homeless people?" etc etc and the answer is! because people are people everywhere at any time and any place and in any situation. moreover, it should not be shocking to anyone when someone from a marginalised group expresses bigotry - they literally live in the same indoctrinating bigoted world that rewards us for punching down on those with less than us that everyone lives in. that doesn't mean these beliefs and people who spout them shouldn't be criticised and fought against, they absolutely should. but I'm getting real fucking tired when people act like someone marginalised expressing bigotry is grounds for retracting their humanity or human rights, or worse, the humanity of the communities they're a part of.