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Well, yes. And many leaders have proven they either don't care or are willing to make people disappear if they become inconvenient 😓

Umm, that's actually fire

I just read a chapter called "Zionism" in a book called "Never Again" by Rabbi Meir Kahane (published 2009), because the book was presented to me by the person who owns the copy as being, like, somehow especially important, something about the author being really good or something. I don't remember exactly. I figured reading this chapter would tell me whether the book is for me (born Buddhist/Jewish in a primarily Jewish/Espicopalian Christian family; celebrated Christmas and Passover but never had a mitzvah, 60% Ashkenazi, yadda yadda), given my lack of education/study of Jewish history. It starts out seemingly taking a neutral/mildly derogatory stance towards Zionism... But by the end of the chapter it's clear he thinks of modern Palestinians as being still responsible as "Arabs" in general for the past persecution of Jewish people in the region. He pretty much says "these dirty Arabs can't possibly be genocided hard enough" (paraphrased), and that's when I put the book down.

I'm not sorry to say: I firmly believe that past atrocities committed against one population by another absolutely do not, in any way, provide a basis for or permission to perform any atrocities in recompense, especially not intergenerationally. Yeah, easy for me to say, being Caucasian, but also, I'm still Jewish, and queer, and disabled, so I don't know what it's like to live with daily racism, but I'm definitely not even actually that close to the top of the social hierarchy

I have a blue house with a blue window...

Yeah but it's a relatable sentiment, one I identify with personally as well. Maybe that can be the point

Classic and well-documented grown-up response. Goes on the shelf right next to "because I said so." 🤡

Because you went straight to "let's blow them up" maybe?

Yeah the dude in my old neighborhood who drove a Dodge RAM but rearranged the letters so it said "WAR" on the tailgate instead, and had a bumper sticker that said "KILL EVERYTHING" in that script that's like, "badass Gothic tribal" but in reality is just floral minus the actual flowers... Not all clown cars are smol

Not me misreading "human feces" as "human faces" 💀

Nice try but this is clearly not Loss

By Jove, lest mine eyes deceive, these maths be not so mathnificent

Earth's atmosphere is an ocean of gas. The ocean is an atmosphere of liquid. Words are made up.