• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    my inner cynic believes that 50 years from now, only intellectuals and historians will remember that this happened while the liberal and conservative majorites of the united states and europe will label people who care as “trouble makers” for trying to make everyone else aware of it.

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      7 months ago

      You are correct to worry that. It’s going to be a struggle of intellectual resistance to even prevent them from inverting the victims and perpetrators in the public mind - they’re going to say that Palestinians tried to genocide the Israelis.

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        7 months ago

        once it becomes nothing more than an intellectual pursuit, it won’t matter like the it doesn’t in the united states with the native americans, canada with the first nations, and australia with the aboriginals.

        it feels like we’re watching history repeat itself, but this time we’re witnessing the testimonies of people being killed real time and by the same hegemony that successfully executed that last wave of mass genocide and ethnic cleansing.