#you can hold anti-imperialist anticolonialist views without engaging in apologism for violent groups that kill civilians
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peep how many people in the notes reblogging this uncritically are Americans with their weird eternal boner for Irish suffering
you know when irish people were fighting for freedom the rebels were never considered revolutionaries or freedom fighters. we had only ever been called terrorists by the british government, because when you call a people fighting for their rights and their freedoms terrorists you can distance yourself from them. people aren't fighting because they've been radicalised by 800 years of colonialism or 75 years of brutal settler imperialism, they're fighting because they're dirty terrorists trying to hurt our democracy and kill our children. and now we don't have any responsibility to reckon with the years of subjugation and settler violence and attempted genocide, because how can you expect us to deal with terrorists? the same story repeats itself over and over n it's shocking how people will eat it up every time when it comes to protecting and maintaining western power.
#op's heart is in the right place but like. hamas and the IRA both very much ARE terrorist paramilitary organisations#you can hold anti-imperialist anticolonialist views without engaging in apologism for violent groups that kill civilians#like the IRA bombed and murdered people IN IRELAND. not just the uk#likewise if you equate hamas with the palestinian people you're a fucking idiot with no critical thinking skills im sorry#hamas are not fucking freedom fighters and their leaders aren't even in palestine at the moment#they're safe abroad whilst palestinian civilians are being murdered by israel in cold blood#“one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter” doesn't fucking apply because neither hamas nor the ira were freedom fighters#and neither have/had the best interests of their citizens at heart
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