With regards to Palestine it's often said to the newest Israeli atrocity that "no one cares because they're Palestinian", and the people who say this often get 1000s of likes. Clearly that isn't true—a lot of people do care. We need to be explicit about what the real problem is: - ThreadSky

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jihadalhaqq.bsky.social • 37 days ago

With regards to Palestine it's often said to the newest Israeli atrocity that "no one cares because they're Palestinian", and the people who say this often get 1000s of likes. Clearly that isn't true—a lot of people do care. We need to be explicit about what the real problem is:

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jihadalhaqq.bsky.social•37 days ago

We live in hierarchies where the decisions that govern our lives are controlled by a few people with selfish interests and will stoop to any atrocity to make sure those interests are secured. The world of medieval kingdoms necessitated revolutions and so too does our world today

jihadalhaqq.bsky.social•37 days ago

Many of us also fall for the oldest trick of the book: ruling classes of societies love to confuse their own interests with the interests of the whole society. This explains why you have strange phrases in the media such as "the economy is doing well" when people are suffering

jihadalhaqq.bsky.social•37 days ago

When you're used to erasing yourself and the dispossessed, when ruling classes become your "everyone", your "economy", and your "national interest", of course you're going to have difficulty seeing the fact that many people do care about Palestine and Palestinians

jihadalhaqq.bsky.social•37 days ago

And if you cannot recognize that what the real issue is not that "no one cares" but that the people with political and economic agency in our world do not care, and that they have such power is an issue in itself, you're not contributing anything.

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