It’s hard for me to process how people can see a genocide unfolding live, literally entire families and bloodlines being erased. Children being murdered. And not only ignore it, but then try to excuse it away by policing the language of people calling for the end of the massacre. - ThreadSky

knilirabaj.bsky.social • 480 days ago

It’s hard for me to process how people can see a genocide unfolding live, literally entire families and bloodlines being erased. Children being murdered. And not only ignore it, but then try to excuse it away by policing the language of people calling for the end of the massacre.

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deus-ex-machina.bsky.social•479 days ago

Yes , it’s unfathomable.

utahcornelius.bsky.social•479 days ago

By the way, feel free to call in a deux ex machina any time you like. We could use one. One really good one. Transport Trump, Musk, DeSantis, Johnson, Jordan, MTG, Boehbert, and anyone working on supressing votes all the way to hell, no local stops.

skirne.bsky.social•290 days ago

Instead of asking people without power to do the impossible, how about demanding that the people currently in power do something fucking meaningful with all of that power? This serf-brained shit is odious.

imdmingyour.mom•479 days ago

Propaganda does a number on people

metamorphosisrox.bsky.social•479 days ago

You know how people tune out when the numbers are too high? (I have a point, trust me). I think this whole thing is similar. I think when things are happening so far away and people here are living in hells of their own, it is easier to block the stuff far away.

goldencoyote.bsky.social•479 days ago

Except most of these same people were/are on the “Putin is committing a genocide in the Ukraine” boat or got outraged over the Chinese government’s treatment of ethnic Uyghurs, so…

metamorphosisrox.bsky.social•477 days ago

I don't like war regardless & I come from Puerto Rico so I'm not interested in any country invading and/or trying to take over any other country. I live in the US but if I had a choice, my island would be independent. I'm on the side of all the victims because politicians don't fight, in most cases.

goldencoyote.bsky.social•479 days ago

It really looks to be a matter of “Do we identify with the victims”/“Do we like the perpetrators” more than anything.

pjeffe.bsky.social•479 days ago

My lord.

"We shouldn't be splitting hairs over language when thousands of civilians are being slaughtered."

"But it isn't genocide, you shouldn't call it that."

fluidfyre.bsky.social•289 days ago

A lot of them work VERY hard not to see it, and are proud of it. Often declaring how they never read or watch the news. Out of sight, out of mind.

It's disgusting.

mrpieceofwork.bsky.social•480 days ago

RN both the neighbors and my own sister are watching an Amer. football game and yelling and shouting, etc. Neighbors with loud music. Sis is probably drunk. Either they're all coping, or they just DGAF (sister has said as much abt the environment, as well as others who stand up to her)

rkaanstad.bsky.social•480 days ago

These same people are pretending covid isn't hurting anyone so I'm not a bit shocked.

cromerzome.bsky.social•480 days ago

Wait til later when people are like "Well, times were differnt then..."

rwlatstetter.bsky.social•480 days ago

I DON'T EVEN KNOW AMERICA ANYMORE!

noyou.bsky.social•289 days ago

I feel like there was more support by the government to save a crypto bank and a submarine everyone was saying was a terrible idea to begin with than what's going on there.

vanweezer.bsky.social•480 days ago

Before covid I believed most people were basically good. I don't think I can go back and more and more examples of why just keep piling up

codenamesailorv.bsky.social•289 days ago

This perfectly sums up how I’ve been feeling living in America.

It got bad, never got better but WORSE…it showed me it wasn’t all that great to begin with. Not just the parts I KNEW were bad (we’ve always been a country with racism and classism) but…those who were meant to be “the Good Guys” too?!?

bigcheese.club•479 days ago

if you see Palestinians as human beings it's hard to relate to the people who don't, but that's ultimately what's going on here

leftistbeard.bsky.social•479 days ago

phoeniciahex.bsky.social•289 days ago

I can't give a short explanation to this. I am tired of this theme repeating again. From the invasion of Europe onto the world, indigenous cultures erased, the continuous enslavements and guises of that same theme. We need this cycle of suffering to cease.
I mourn for those we lost.
No more genocide

walter1964.bsky.social•480 days ago

Demanizing Palestinians for decades and association with Hamas even though all the young people want is to play soccer and be just like everyone else at that age, I never went to Gaza but we have completely wrong picture of people in countries we destroyed, hospitality especially even for us