11-25-2023, 02:56 PM
https://www.resetera.com/threads/the-game-awards-an-open-letter-for-palestine.788679/post-115388613
The problem is that you have a whole lot of people who either deny the October 7th atrocities or actually agree with them. I don't really like the idea that those cunts would sign the letter too.
Quote:Quote:Dissapointing they aren't also mentioning Hamas and their crimes in this message, would broaden the support, to mention that civilians on both sides suffer.
Still, a honorable initiative!
I think I get where this is coming from when viewed as a practicality, but it's definitely disappointing to think that criticism of Israeli's genocidal colonialist occupation of Palestine has to be followed by an *editor's note: not a terrorist.
I'm also not sure how much it would even help. The fact of the matter is that people trying to support the Israel's genocidal actions are often willing to tell obvious lies in order to smear critics; probably most damningly, presenting the state of Israel as congruent with Judaism and the Jewish people so that criticism of the actions of the state is an attack on the entirety of the people.
Would trying to intentionally distance the message from the perception it might be supporting Hamas even help protect it from opponents who simply move to dehumanize Palestinians completely and paint them as fundamentally evil and destructive? Or would it simply create more surface area to conflate Hamas with the Palestinian cause as a whole so that any harm Hamas causes justifies the genocide against the Palestinians?
The problem is that you have a whole lot of people who either deny the October 7th atrocities or actually agree with them. I don't really like the idea that those cunts would sign the letter too.
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