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People are not pro Palestine or pro Israel, most people are simply not psychopaths and young don't carry the crystallised opinions of the older generations that
by mrtksn 3y ago
People are not pro Palestine or pro Israel, most people are simply not psychopaths and young don't carry the crystallised opinions of the older generations that "know" who is right and resort to denial when exposed to contradicting information.
In social media we have bubbles but these bubbles leak because they form by huge number of categories, that is, someone in the pro-gay rights bubble isn't necessarily in the pro-immigratin bubble for example.
This results in people having exposure in multiple types of propaganda, so even if you are huge Shapiro fan you end up listening to Bassem Youssef too. The media needs all the views, not only the libertarians and they actually put them on the same screens.
The scary part for me is that in the West, once claiming to be the epicentre of freedom of speech and human dignity, now expects people to be exposed only to the "right" kind of propaganda and its considering the alternative opinions a danger and looking how to limit it. Isn't this McCarthyism 2.0?
Those who are only pro-Palestine or pro-Israel are the extremist minority as far as I can tell. Most people are anti human suffering. Now that I feel scared of backlash or getting my account limited once again, I can't even express freely my opinions on the conflict even though I'm very fond of the Jewish culture and even the country of Israel. I feel like I have to make a choice between genocidials and the terrorist. There are active institutions going after people for having the wrong opinion and people who no longer aspire to do great things but to preserve what they own are feeling scared of it.
Young people don't feel that.
- catlover76 3y ago> most people are simply not psychopaths This. It's not like Emmanuel Macron and the President of Singapore, who have been critical of Israel's actions here (mostly the former), are weird radical lefties, for example. They just recognize the killing of Palestinian civilians for what it is: revenge and retaliation, and a deliberate violation of the kinds of human rights that don't really "exist" unless countries make some attempt at respecting them. Most people, if being honest, and if the victims weren't Palestinian, would recognize that a military action that is basically along the lines of "for every one of our people they killed, we will kill 10 or 20, and won't care if they are old, young, woman, child, and anyone who rejects this is a terrorist sympathizer and wanted our people to be killed", is simply logically and morally unhinged. And if the victims weren't Palestinian and mostly Muslim, and if Hamas wasn't an Islamic extremist organization, people would be less susceptible to the gaslighting about how anyone who is against the killing of Palestinian civilians is "pro-Hamas"