Why is the concept that ethnic cleansing is always wrong so hard for people to grasp?
I think it gets dangerous when people see other groups as things instead of other humans. The holocaust was run with factories and machines designed for killing. There was no empathy since the people being murdered where just objects to the murders.
There are a plethora of factors (upbringing, psychological predisposition, life events, etc.) that shape a person’s worldview, be that view good or bad.
Because so many people claim it’s suddenly fine when the people being clensed are pedophiles or Nazis or rapists.
Remember kids, racism and ethnonationalism is bad, until you can use it as an excuse to ethnically cleanse millions of people for having the wrong ancestors!
As a wise man once said
The monkey’s out of the bottle, man. Pandora doesn’t go back in the box.
But yeah, hand waving away the logistical nightmare that would be displacing millions of people is real dumb.
Not arguing for it, but Israel was built on such displacement so it’s not exactly impossible. You just need to have no respect for human life.
It’s the same magical thinking conservatives use. Believing or so desperately wanting simple solutions to complex problems. They have nuclear weapons for Christ’s sake. Even assuming you could get them all to just stand down and comply. What would you even do? Would take possession of the weapons Etc. It’s just absurd on its face.
But that doesn’t stop them. I pointed out the similarities between them and the magats they hate a year and a half ago. At the height of the propaganda surrounding the 24 elections. Receiving reactionary hatred. Hell. I recently told them plainly. That the issues in Gaza were unfortunately never on the balance. Seeing as both Biden and Trump had largely the same stance. And it was always going to be one of the two elected. The sad pyrrhic down voting and shrill calls of Zionist and Israel lover were very predictable. And laughable.
I’m just honestly not sure if they’re really that young. That ignorant. Or if there’s some bigger conspiracy going on. Honestly though I think it’s just delusion.
I’m just honestly not sure if they’re really that young. That ignorant. Or if there’s some bigger conspiracy going on. Honestly though I think it’s just delusion.
Just delusion. As you said, it’s the same as MAGA types. Mirror the script and improve the grammar slightly, and it’s literally the same arguments peddled by fascists.
What’s this got to do with tankies tho?
Hypercampism against the Bad West™ advocating for literal genocide from a nominal leftist is tankie-adjacent at the least.
I also want to note that half of Israeli Jews are of Middle Eastern descent, and holy fuck at least where I’m from these guys would literally get lynched.
It’s definitely not antisemitism, no sir. They just want half of the world’s jews to be rendered stateless and subject to brutal persecution on the basis of their ethnicity. And if you disagree you’re racist and islamophobic and you deserve to have your head cut off with a dull knife for it.
Remove ethnicity completely from the argument as it really doesn’t matter ig these millions are Jewish people, Chinese peoples, or African peoples. The fact is moving millions of people is neigh impossible and every attempt to do so previously has resulted in a lot of death. If “killing tens to hundreds of thousands of people unnecessarily” is NOT on your bingo card then you should not support another attenpt at partitioning a nation.
That’s what the state of Israel doing as we speak but clearly not enough people are worried about the Israeli Jews 🤡
rendered stateless and subject to brutal persecution
Well if they were subject to a differen’t ethnonationalist state who had a monopoly on the use of force against them, that would be really bad.
Thankfully, that has never happened before.
Just want to repeat the comment you hid there in case it’s relevant to the point being made.
They can also remain in Palestine and live alongside native Palestinians or return to their home countries under the right of return.
The point is that ethnic jews would no longer have the exclusive right of self-determination in Palestine.
It’s not relevant to the point being criticized, since the insane shit being criticized is “It’s okay to deport millions of Israeli Jews because they have Bad Ancestors” not “There should be a single nondiscriminatory state for all residents of the region instead of Israel”
OOP started out with this comment, after all:
When the Council of Rabbis falls and the population of enslaved Zionists is liberated and allowed to return to their native countries, Iran will be greated as a liberator.
You forgot this part -
Iran has a right to defend itself
That comment was tongue-in-cheek.
That comment was tongue-in-cheek.
Saying that Iran has the same right to defend itself as Israel hardly strikes me as tongue-in-cheek. Nor does doubling-down talking about how Israel-born Israelis ‘belonging’ in the countries of their European ancestors despite such rhetoric having no such usage it could be mirrored from regarding current rhetoric in a potential war with Iran.
Here maybe this will help:
“Israel has a right to defend itself”
talking about how
Israel-born Israelis[native palestinians] ‘belonging’ in the countries of theirEuropean ancestors[pan-arabic neighbors]
The Israeli Jew is now a victim?
The Israeli Jew is now a victim?
what
the people committing the genocide in gaza… has anyone thought about them and their feelings today?!
A people as a whole cannot be responsible for a crime, because there will always be members who did not have a say in committing it (children at the very least, and realistically some adults will object too). Stopping the genocide is a good thing, holding the decision makers accountable and doing what can reasonably be done to prevent another is a good thing, but holding another in retribution for the first one would not be.
This is not true.
When a sufficiently large part of a society goes along with mass high crimes such as genocide it is reasonable to collectively blame the whole of society.
I can’t speak for Israel, but if you look at say russia, a strong majority (at the very least) are openly committed to genocidal imperialism and an overwhelming majority (~84%) are openly supportive of imperialism.
People come up with lazy arguments such as “they are all afraid!!!”, when preference falsification can be measured and it’s not a good result for the russians. A small minority falsify their preferences with respect to open support for genocide, but when it comes to imperialism (e.g. annexation if Crimea) preference falsification is literally at 1% or so for a totally adjustment from 85% to 84%.
I honestly don’t know much about Israeli public opinion research, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find damning results.
No. If 85% of a group is guilty of something, then to say that whole group is guilty, would obviously be false, because 85 is simply not equal to 100. If I round up a group of 99 murders, and stick you in a room with them, that does not suddenly mean that you are a murderer because “the people in that room collectively are murders”. Otherwise, literally everyone is, because I can simply define a group of people that includes mostly people that have committed horrible crimes, plus any given person, and now that person is a “murderer”, and I can rinse and repeat until everyone has been so grouped.
No, I disagree. You may think you are approaching this from a humanistic point of view, but your analogy clearly shows that you haven’t thought this through.
A more correct form of your analogy would be to recognize that while 15 people in the room may not publicly condone murder, all their actions (such as paying taxes to support the other 85 murderers, promoting the legitimacy of the 85 murderers and their ideology) results in enabling the actions of the murderers.
This sort of sophomoric, faux-“humanistic” thinking is extremely common among those who are lucky enough to not have been on the recieving end of a genocidal society.
I had to listen to such (polite) arguments for 8 years (between 2014 and 2022) from close foreign friends (not randoms, they’ve lived in russia/Ukraine and speak local languages, so they have real world experience beyond abstract 100 murderers in a room thought experiments).
Of course after the full scale invasion, they gained a new appreciation for my arguements and worldview.
I don’t think you’ve considered all the implications of what I said. Even something like “the rest of the people in society pay taxes, which fund the government that does the crime, therefore everyone in that society is responsible”, does not work, because even that isn’t going to be true for any society in the real world. If you want an extreme case, consider a literal child, suppose it’s an Israeli toddler, for the sake of argument. It’s very clear what society this person belongs to, they’ve not had the time or knowledge or ability to move to another one. It’s also blatantly obvious that they can’t have done anything, even some indirect thing like voting for a particular politician or taking a job at an involved company, to further the genocide, since they’re quite literally incapable of being responsible for virtually anything. Any real world “people”, society, ethnic group, whatever other similar grouping is going to have such members, and if it is physically impossible for those members to be responsible for something, it naturally follows that any statement that everyone in that group is responsible for some crime, has to be wrong.
People who have personal experience with something like a genocide, or defensive war, or similar attack, are exactly the wrong sort of people to ask about this. That might sound like a strange statement, but those sorts of situations force the targeted group to fight or die, and under those circumstances it makes pragmatic sense to dehumanize one’s enemy somewhat. Violence has collateral damage, and in a fight for survival you cannot afford to hesitate to consider who exactly has done what, or linger in self doubt over if everyone your defense or counterack hits was deserving. People in such a case virtually have to adopt an attitude of guilt by default towards anyone they perceive as being on the other side, and that is understandable. However, a position being understandable or pragmatic is not the same thing as it being true, and continuing to dehumanize a group even after the fight has ended loses it’s pragmatic value and can lead to more suffering. The original context of this argument was a hypothetical expulsion of Israelis to other countries. If one was in a position to do this, one would have to first be in a position to end the genocide going on against Palestine in the first place, at which point, the reason to set aside their humanity to facilitate resisting them would be over as well, they would already be defeated.
the people committing the genocide in gaza… has anyone thought about them and their feelings today?!
… are you alright?
bringing much needed diversity of opinion to whatever this circle jerk is.
It reads like all you’re contributing is a series of non-sequiturs.
The brain bin they’re from must be admined by Abbey Normal.
I always took it to mean that the brain in question had been binned.
