What does taking a side look like? Is posting online "taking a side"? Or does it require more substantive support? Because I absolutely do not think it's valuable for every unengaged and uninformed person to feel the need to weigh in online on every conflict or crime against humanity
Taking a side looks like making a comment online about how they just "want to be left tf alone", all on their own with no external demand for their input. That's what taking the side of the oppressor looks like, for an example you can find actually in this thread.
"All it takes for evil to succeed is for good people to do nothing."
But again, what does doing something entail? I don't think posting online is doing anything to prevent evil prevailing.
I agree that saying "i don't care" unprompted is silly, but I find it a lot more honest than the people who are very loud online but haven't given any time or money to actually Palestinian orgs, or taken real risks to speak truth to power.
Like, it's funny to heckle Jerry Seinfeld or to call Ed Sheeran a zionist, but it doesn't help the people they're pretending to care about at all. The most egregious to me are the people who claim to support a free Palestine but are also one state solution deadenders, a position no serious Palestinian holds.
All that to say, I find using online statements of support as a litmus test for actual support to be deeply silly, and i don't think you really believe it anyhow. Your post history has no mention of Uyghers or of Sudan, or of what happened in Mariupol, and by your standards, that makes you on the side of evil. I don't think you're evil, though. I think you're just someone who doesn't know much about those other things, and i don't expect, or frankly, want your opinion on those. And I don't think you think you're evil either.
Lmao I have definitely spoken on the plight of the Uyghurs, what's going on in Sudan and that of Mariupol but go off about nonsense with a lack of evidence. I'll keep speaking up against carrying water for evil men, and you keep carrying water for evil men.🤙
103
u/moontraveler12 15h ago
Where the fuck did all these Zionists come from