| Cobretti2 said: Gaza is genocide, I was more referring that there are also other genocides happening and no one cares and is protesting against those ones like they are with Gaza. Hypocrisy is my whole point, we are one race and to me they are all equally as bad irrespective of who is backing who in committing the act. The only way people will learn to think equally is if they put themselves in say a Judge's shoes. Consistent results must be the outcome of the same conditions. For example, a drunk driver runs a red light and kill someone, the Judge doesn't know them, he sentences them to 10 years jail. In another scenario the Judge's mother is the drunk driver, so if he sentenced one to 10 years (a stranger), to be consistent, he should also sentence his own mother to 10 years jail. Cannot have bias. I have asked a similar question of many people, your mother gets run over an you are the passenger in the same car, what would you do. A lot of people say they would beat the shit or kill the driver. hen I say ok it was your bother who did it, what would you do, their actions suddenly change. Back on topic, World War 2 wasn't so long ago, there be people who still be alive and also first generation children of those who were in WW2. For most part, a lot of people suffered, but the Jews had it the worst. This is the stories people know and have lived. Their views are vastly different to those who are 2 to 3 generations since as those stories are no longer passed on in great detail or the impact that was felt is not the same as for most part these generations have not experienced war or the famine/rebuild that followed. So when those people see such protests but not for the others, the optics appear to be anti-Semitic even though younger generations know they are not. My grandparents hated Germans till the day they died as they experience WW2, my dad hates them because of stories his parents use too tell him right after the war when he was born. He also hates Russians because of the communist bullshit that he grew up under. I experienced that first hand and have similar feels towards Russia, my younger brother never did so he is different lol. My grandparents tired to make me hate Germans but in reality I could not relate to it as I did not experience it first hand. However for most part of my life I have lived in Australia and we are so far away from all the chaos the mentality here is so vastly different. Our biggest issues are kids parents complaining that private school have outdate hair cut policies. So what I am saying is that having grown up between these two world views, I can see why a lot of older people call it anti-Semitic but younger people don't. |
Well said.
I grew up with 'hatred' of Germans as well, especially while living next to Germany. I have family on both sides of conflicts though. My grandfather worked in Indonesia on the railroad during the (often brutal) occupation of Indonesia by The Netherlands, for example Rawagede massacre in 1947. He left Indonesia in 1954 with my Indonesian grandmother and my mother (born in Bandung). While on my father's side my roots are mostly in Germany. My grandfather on my father's side was taken by the Germans and held in a labor camp during WW2.
I learned early not to live by the past while remembering the past not to make the same mistakes.
It's not true no one cares about the other genocides. The truth is most people don't even know about the other genocides.
You can say the same about the past bombing campaigns of Gaza for example in 2014 for which the ICC is now about to issue arrest warrants or the violent put down of the border protests in 2018-2019 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2018/10/gaza-great-march-of-return/ Or the 75 years of occupation, apartheid and systematic displacement and ethnic cleansing.
All this has been carefully manipulated (or rather simply ignored) in the media to keep the narrative intact. Yet this time Israel has gone too far and the narrative is breaking down. People are now starting to find out the truth about what's been happening in Israel for the past 76 years. That's where this reaction is coming from. People feel betrayed by their media and governments.
And that, together with the intensity and rapid pace of events fuels the protests. You can still carry out genocide in this day and age as long as you do it slowly out of sight. You can't do it in full view while backing it at every twist and turn.
Also people are selfish by nature. They don't want refugees, spend money on aid or send soldiers to stop genocide. But in this case, people don't want their money spend on killing people. The main message of these protests is still, Divest from Israel. Not even to send peace keeping forces. Nor are they raising money for aid. But they don't want their money spend on war crimes. Why is my tuition used to support killing children... That's how people that are more involved with these genocides managed to mobilize student protests. And from there discover the truth about what has been happening since 1947.
