#this is intentionally barely readible because if someone finds this through tags or word searching i will literally throw up

[softerseasons]

its like. really shitty that. its so hard in many cases to distinguish "this person is discussing this situation and taking nuance into consideration" from "this person genuinely holds beliefs that i cannot support or stand by"

esp wrt conversations about pale/stine and isr/ael right now.

its so easy to look at a blog saying "the (specifically colonial) state of isr/ael & the id/f have been doing horrible things to pale/stinians since it was formed" and go, yeah that makes sense. it's also easy to scroll down and see the same person saying "remove isra/elis from the land entirely" or "kill them all" and go hey now. absolutely not

it's easy to look at a blog saying "antise/mitism is yet again on the rise in america in response to what's happening in ga/za" and go, yeah that makes sense. it's also easy to scroll down and see the same person saying "isr/ael has a right to defend itself and the 30,000 civilian palestinian deaths over the past 5 months are justified/a necessary evil/all ha/mas fault" and go hey now. absolutely not.

it's not so easy to determine clear cut positioning from people saying, like, "antizi/onists are just antise/mites" or "zi/onists are delusional". Too many people use too many different definitions of what 'zi/onism' means to them. Maybe to them zi/onism is the belief that je/ws deserve to be safe and have a place to live (yes, true of everyone). Maybe to them zi/onism is the belief that isr/ael is the Only place je/ws will ever be safe. Or maybe to them, zi/onism is indicative of a full support for the isr/aeli gov'ts actions and the constant oppression of pale/stinians over the past 70+ years.

The same goes for discussions of ha/mas. To some, support for ha/mas is seen as support of a terr/orist organization, point blank. To some, support for ha/mas is seen as support of a resi/stance ar/my that was formed due to the constant oppr/ession of pale/stinians in their own lands. To some, the truth lies somewhere in between these things- that ha/mas is a res/istance ar/my that has done violent acts in the name of resi/stance, and these acts have had casualties, and people are bound to have mixed feelings about that, as they had mixed feelings about the zydow/ska orga/nizacja bojo/wa, because people will the majority of the time want to say there is a peaceful solution to any problem.

idk. language is hard and nuance is hard and belief systems are contradictory or incompatible and. like on a personal level it makes me really sad to see bc it turns into this divisive "if you use this word/phrase or discuss this concept you are anathema to me" which is ofc our right. we can curate what we do and dont see in the future. but it also leads to a lot of stress and paranoia when it comes to even being able to have these conversations.

and obviously as. a non-pale/stinian non-je/w. putting my voice forward in the larger conversation is decidedly not my place, which is why im making this borderline unreadable so it stays here between me and the people who have already decided i probably dont suck too bad.