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How do you feel about financing a genocide? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by selokichtli@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I didn't want to direct this question to Americans specifically because, at this point, other countries have shown support to Israel in one or the other way. If my country was financing this, I would be taking the streets. Shit, I'm right now in the hospital but all I can think about is protesting anyway just to feel I did something to stop this madness.

Are you doing something about this? Are you feeling unsettled? How do you feel about all this mess?

EDIT: So, buying Chinese stuff takes the USS Gerald Ford to Gaza’s coast. Also, TIL that that chocolate my cousin gave me when she was 20 and I was 5, (delicious stuff!) made me a slavist-ish. The fact remains, this genocide is being paid and supported by taxpayers money; of course, I was hoping that most of us didn’t pay taxes wishing for this. Thank you all for your responses, some of them were hard to swallow.

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[–] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Also please remember that Europe purchased nearly the entirety of products produced by slaves in the Americas.

If there were no European market there would have been little incentive for American slavery.

I guess the slave free northern states also purchased their fair share, but nothing compared to Europe.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's almost like capitalism fosters slavery, weird 🤔

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually no. Capitalism is based on free markets and slaves aren’t involved in the market freely. If the market includes people in chains who haven’t consented to be involved, it’s not a free market.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Tell me you know nothing about economics without saying, "I know nothing of economics".

[–] PetDinosaurs@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh yeah, and you know the justification for indigenous peoples being granted their land back because their ancestors used to live there, and they were removed?

That's the exact same situation for Israel. The Jews used to live in Israel until they were kicked out.

Let that complicate your morality.