• germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Protest for or against whatever you think is important and not what others think is important.

    Also usually people can protest for or against more than one thing.

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      Even if they did accomplish a lot and the person is just talking about never reading it in headlines they look at every other week.

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    Kinda misses the point, no?

    The question needs an answer, even if the person asking also has their own questions to answer.

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      bad faith questions like this don’t deserve an answer, no

      “you like waffles? so why do i see you eating pancakes right now”

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        Okay, yeah. If it’s in bad faith I totally agree.

        Still, I do have to wonder why some genocides are more important to people than others. There’s a genuine question there too

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          thanks for understanding haha. and yes there is probably a context where someone could ask this question in good faith but that’s not the context of this post :)

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          For example what is it about Palestine that is driving the current set of protests that the last 5 years in Ethiopia lacked?

          In this case I would assume it’s the fact that many western nations are involved with Israel in some way.

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            I’ll do you one better, what is it about Palestine this time?

            Israel’s been getting away with genocide for decades, of course none of them see a problem with finishing the job now. What has suddenly changed such that the American public are finally able to realize the apartheid government they’ve been financially supporting all these years is actually evil?

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              People are better informed.

              Are you upset that people are protesting now? Sure, they should have been protesting before but unless you have a time machine there’s nothing we can do about that.

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      Hypocrites shouldn’t be taken seriously. If someone professes X should be done and is choosing not to do it, they belie their own stance.

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      how high do you have your contrast set lmao? i turned my brightness all the way up and i can barely identify any artifacts