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WexfordHo OP t1_iwhgg73 wrote

Reply to comment by InfamousLegend in Three Israelis killed by Palestinian in West Bank knife and car attack by WexfordHo

It’s a little disheartening to see multiple people react to the news of a terrorist attack on civilians with a deflection about how the government of those civilians will react. Why is victim blaming acceptable only when it comes to this topic?

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LandLordLovin t1_iwhgt8w wrote

Redditors hate Israel. This could have been a nuclear detonation and they’d still ignore it.

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Dizzy-Promise-1257 t1_iwhyh3w wrote

I mean….redditors hate something, but it’s not isRAeL, and it rhymes with “bluish”.

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Open_Chemistry_3300 t1_iwhijs8 wrote

You must not be from the USA victim blaming isn’t a rare thing, example the Philadelphia police straight up snatched a woman out of her car beat her, and used her child as a prop in a propaganda picture to tarnish the protesters. There are still people today like she wasn’t innocent, not a victim, etc etc.

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WexfordHo OP t1_iwhisnn wrote

You’re right, I’m not from the US! That story about that poor woman though, who I just assume is black, what a nightmare.

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fight_the_hate t1_iwhk8lr wrote

Civilians got murdered.

Yes. You should be a human being first and feel something for the victims, who may have been actively voting and fighting against the government you believe is worse than North Korea.

Who is a valid target? Anyone? If a Jew gets assaulted in your country do you feel any remorse?

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fight_the_hate t1_iwj4r5d wrote

Fun! I'll ignore the labeling me as a citizen of another country, and the stereotype that all Israelis put words in others mouthed... Because it's true right?! Evil Israelis always lying and stealing...Right?! /s

Who is a valid target?

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WexfordHo OP t1_iwhj09q wrote

Or like the US starting two wars in the Middle East that lasted 20+ years because they were attacked once? What, you think Afghanistan was heavily armed or something? Iraq was on its second US invasion, so it was pretty weak too. I hate to think what the US would do if Mexico spent decades attacking it with rockets and bombs, I’m pretty sure that Mexico and Mexicans would no longer exist. The US is already pretty rough on everything South of their border, and that’s just based on racial animus.

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LandLordLovin t1_iwi58hd wrote

Considering the US let’s in MILLIONS of Mexicans and immigrants who fled to Mexico I don’t see that comparison holding up about racial animosity. Maybe your comparison to Iraq is more relevant but there’s no border friction so maybe not.

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WexfordHo OP t1_iwi6emi wrote

“Lets” that uh… quite the spin on migrant camps, a “Stay in Mexico” policy, and separating kids from families at the border. All of this because Mexicans, Hondurans, El Salvadorans and others want to flee the economic conditions and violence the US has created over decades with their War on Drugs and coups.

But that’s fine because it’s the US, and not a country with a majority Jewish population. The US can commit war crimes, torture people on camera, still have an offshore torture and detention facility in Cuba, but it’s fine it’s fine. Because it’s the US. When the US responds to a single terror attack with 20 years of war and millions dead and displaced that’s just life. Hypocrites.

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WexfordHo OP t1_iwhjwau wrote

I’m just unraveling some hypocrisy, that’s not the same as whataboutism.

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AMac2002 t1_iwie247 wrote

Calling out whataboutism in a comment thread they began with a whataboutism... awesome...

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InfamousLegend t1_iwirk03 wrote

Insinuating the IDF will retaliate against civilians is not whataboutism. They've done it before and they'll do it again. Beating the shit out of a funeral procession of a member of the press you just murdered is not a good look, and Israeli's are confused when people don't support them.

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