Polls consistently show that Jewish Israelis view Palestinians as less than human. This deep-seated racism is rooted in the Zionist colonial project and helps explain the broad support for the Gaza genocide.
Sunshine was making the exact point I had the moment I saw the title. Namely: “The fuck do you mean ‘killed without regret’? I don’t kill anything without regret.”
Once you start nominating groups of sentient creatures as outside normal empathy, it gets easier and easier to expand that definition. That callousness builds on itself. Torturing animals to death in factory farms for no logical reason whatsoever is not a great comparison if you’re trying to take a moral stance against wanton slaughter.
Sunshine was making the exact point I had the moment I saw the title. Namely: “The fuck do you mean ‘killed without regret’? I don’t kill anything without regret.”
Once you start nominating groups of sentient creatures as outside normal empathy, it gets easier and easier to expand that definition. That callousness builds on itself. Torturing animals to death in factory farms for no logical reason whatsoever is not a great comparison if you’re trying to take a moral stance against wanton slaughter.