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it's not hard to understand. people simply not liking queers doesn't mean they deserve to be bombed. also there are queers in Palestine and they are getting bom
by arczyx 1y ago
it's not hard to understand. people simply not liking queers doesn't mean they deserve to be bombed. also there are queers in Palestine and they are getting bombed too by Israel
- FuriouslyAdrift 1y ago'not liking' you mean actively hunting down and murdering on a consistent basis. https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/queers-for-palestine-and-the-death-of-irony https://www.queermajority.com/essays-all/queers-for-palestin...
- arczyx 1y ago> actively hunting down and murdering on a consistent basis There's only one man being killed in the article you linked, and his killing is way more complex that the article made it to be. https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/g-s1-17637/hebron-west-bank-israel-asylum-ahmad-abu-markhiya https://www.npr.org/2024/09/27/g-s1-17637/hebron-west-bank-i... Pretty sure that's not enough evidence for 'actively hunting down and murdering on a consistent basis'. On the other hand, Israel had probably killed tens if not hundreds or thousands of queers in Gaza as of now. That surely count for 'murdering on a consistent basis'.
- tqi 1y ago> Israel had probably killed tens if not hundreds or thousands of queers in Gaza as of now When you pull easily google-able numbers out of thin air, you undermine the credibility of your overall point: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/7/two-years-of-israels-genocide-in-gaza-by-the-numbers https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/7/two-years-of-israel...
- Jtsummers 1y agoThat doesn't undermine their statement at all. They wrote hundreds or thousands, perhaps you misread it as hundreds of thousands? 67,000 killed per your link, assuming only 1% were LGBTQ, means around 670 LGBTQ people killed, which falls well within the standard definition of "hundreds". Even if they only make up 0.5% of the population, it's still hundreds. And to hit "tens" they only need to be about 0.1% of the Gazan population.
- linhns 1y agoThere ain’t that many queers in Gaza, genius.
- krapp 1y agoNot anymore...
- acdha 1y agoThere aren’t many people out of the closet in repressive regimes, no, but it’s estimated that 5-10% of people will be somewhere on the gay spectrum if allowed (with substantial cultural variation on how they identify themselves and describe their sexuality, of course). It’s exceedingly unlikely that the people in Gaza are freak outliers in this regard, and the population is more than large enough for 5% to mean thousands of people.
- linhns 1y agoI’m not saying gay, specifically queers.
- foxglacier 1y agoYou ignored the "actively hunting down" part for Israel. Killing gays without realizing they're gay doesn't count. It should be obvious to you that the problem with killing gays isn't that they're more deserving of life than straights but that specifically targeting them puts each gay person in greater danger.
- joecool1029 1y ago> Killing gays without realizing they're gay doesn't count. One of the more deranged things I've read today. Then again it's unsurprising coming from an extremist that defends hospital bombings: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211554 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45211554
- arczyx 1y ago> killing people indiscriminately is better than killing people because they are gays sometimes I really wonder whether people like you actually read what you just post...
- foxglacier 11mo agoCan you respond to it without resorting to insults? You completely misquoted what I said so first step is to understand before responding.