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[-] anothercatgirl 28 points 10 months ago

if an average 196 community member stands among Palestinians, in Palestine, obeying Palestinian laws, how long would they last?

[-] cupcakezealot 63 points 10 months ago

israel would probably bomb their home so not too long

[-] Catoblepas 56 points 10 months ago

I don’t decide whether or not bombing children is moral based on how their parents feel about me. 🤷‍♂️

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Palestinians are quite liberal and progressive compared to other Arabs, and being gay is legal in the West Bank -- that doesn't mean that there's no issues, this article about a planned LGBT youth camp gives a good impression. There's allies, but keep your head down and out of sight of religious nutjobs. It's pretty much the same thing atheists do over there: Plenty of them around with all that secular history but the religious nutjobs are simply too rabid to allow public discourse about the topic. It's way easier to go the "secular Muslim" route: Fast, but not for Allah.

In Gaza the legal situation is undetermined (scholars disagree on whether British mandate law prohibiting gay sex still applies) but anyway Hamas is in power, they instituted a religious police, tried to enforce headscarfs, go after male hairdressers cutting women's hairs without any legal basis etc. don't look at the statute book Hamas doesn't care and they're crazy. Also you don't want to go to Gaza right now. Also, you probably can't even if you're an UN aid worker.

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 27 points 10 months ago

If an average person is constantly subjected to food insecurity, lacking access to clean water and sanitation, lacking medical treatment, random injury and death through constant bombings, random injury and death of relatives and friends through constant bombings and limited access to education and working opportunities, how likely are they able to concern themselves with social progress?

If we look at western countries, social progress came in times of relative safety and wealth for the broad population, while reactionary politics came in times, where these were lowered or cut. It is no coincidence that reactionary politicians combine economic hardship for the masses with scapegoating and fighting against minorities.

The way to progressive politics in Gaza is paved with working infrastructure, proper access to basic needs and a perspective for social and personal development.

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 20 points 10 months ago

I'm not sure if you are attempting a platitude or are making a point, but to make a point your logic should be sound.

Your logic is that if an average first world person cannot live in a place comfortably, then you have an unstated implication that they should not receive support against death. Please correct if you were implying something else, would have been easier to know if you had spoken less vaguely.

Nonetheless regarding said "logic", (TLDR it's not logical) I don't see the logical connection between the tourism experience of visiting a country under siege and how that determines whether the residents of that country should be exterminated.

If you were making a point, could you elaborate on this connection? If however you were attempting a platitude, no explanation needed, you succeeded.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

They murder gay people, that was their point.

[-] cupcakezealot 6 points 10 months ago
[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Not as a matter of policy, no.

[-] cupcakezealot 5 points 10 months ago

texas, florida, ohio, and utah would like a word

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Those states execute people for the crime of being gay?

[-] Catoblepas 4 points 10 months ago

Those states are making conditions intolerable for trans people in the hopes that they either kill themselves or flee. I personally know trans people who moved across the country within the past year because of the uncertainty over whether it would even be legal for them to piss in a public restroom, or whether they would have access to medication necessary to keep them mentally healthy. I fled nearly 20 years ago because I saw the writing on the wall.

That’s not even discussing the stochastic terrorism that has made drag flat out dangerous, as in “your gay bar in Brooklyn will get burned down” dangerous. That’s not a hypothetical, it happened less than a year ago.

[-] zbyte64 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I didn't realize we were bombing them into being tolerant, before we used to do it to make them a democracy.

[-] stembolts@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah great, well thank you for the explanation regarding their implication. That is helpful.

Do you happen to also understand if their position is logical, or is your meaning then, "They murder, so we must murder them, so that all of the murderers have been murdered."

(Please correct the above if I am misunderstanding)

Because there is a bit of a problem with that sentiment as well.

I'm not stating that you take this position, so do not take this next statement as targeted at you, rather it is targeted at those who may hold the above sentiment. That is, progress is rarely generated from the barrel of a gun. Then we live in a world where B's hate against A is justified, because A hates B. This is a perpetual cycle of endless violence and war, that is the end result of this type of thinking, and why these comments are so negative because a lot of us have lived long enough to see this cycle, every day, it does not end through bloodshed.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

They make a valid point, that most of the residents of Gaza despise the rainbow community, and many of them would physically harm them given the chance.

With this in mind, it's quite bizarre that a Lemmy community built around the rainbow community is formally in support of them. I personally think the best thing to do in this situation would have been to stay out of it.

[-] Catoblepas 5 points 10 months ago

Plenty of people in the rural southern Appalachian county I grew up in would and did physically harm me when given the chance. Am I supposed to be okay with bombing their kids and hospitals now or something?

I think the best thing to do in this situation is not bomb hospitals and children. 🤷‍♂️

[-] Catoblepas 3 points 10 months ago

Is that relevant?

If it is, I guess we could all take a minute and talk about how Israel has such a problem controlling violent homophobic religious extremists that Jerusalem Pride has needed a ratio of 1 armed guard for every 6 marchers.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

The fact that Israel has a pride march at all kinda works against whatever point you're making.

[-] Catoblepas 3 points 10 months ago

Do you feel that needing 1 armed guard for every 6 marchers is indicative that it is incredibly safe to be out as queer in Jerusalem?

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Who provides the armed guards, out of interest?

[-] Catoblepas 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Why are the armed guards needed?

Who are they being protected from?

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Do you think a pride march in the Gaza strip would be any safer?

[-] Catoblepas 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So a pride march in Jerusalem is just as safe as one in Gaza, except the one in Israel has more political willpower behind it to attract and maintain the goodwill of the west? Yeah I’d agree with that.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I'm honestly baffled as to what you're on about at this point.

[-] Catoblepas 2 points 10 months ago

What part is confusing to you?

Israel and Palestine both have violent homophobic religious extremists.

Israel gets money hand over fist from the West by being the “good” country in the Middle East. Palestine does not.

Since the West now finds treating gay people as subhuman to be passé, Israel has a vested interest in maintaining the appearance of being somewhat less violently homophobic than their neighbors, even if it means they need to pay 1 armed guard for every 6 marchers.

This doesn’t make Israel free of violent homophobia or even gay friendly. The fact they need that many guards underlines how dangerous it is to be queer in Israel in general.

All of which is incidental to the fact that bigotry doesn’t make bombing hospitals and children alright.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

The fact they even have a pride march shows they are vastly better than their neighbours. Stop going to bat for people who despise you.

[-] Catoblepas 3 points 10 months ago

Sorry, I didn’t realize you were unfamiliar with the idea of pinkwashing.

Do you think being despised by people for being queer is a new experience to me? It doesn’t make me want to turn away when children and hospitals are bombed, especially when half the politicians in my own country are working tirelessly to instate their own Christofascist government.

Starving people being bombed in hospitals in Gaza are not my enemies, even if they’re bigoted. Thinking that saying “but they’re homophobic” over and over like that’s going to make me go “oh okay, kill them then lol” is what the kids call a self report.

[-] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Israel murders those gay people too, as well as their families and friends. The answer to homophobia just isn't genocide 🤷

[-] zbyte64 19 points 10 months ago

With all that dysentery, lack of food, shelter, constant threat of getting blown up? Ehh maybe 2 days cuz I'm twice as old as the average person there.

[-] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 14 points 10 months ago

I also support not making polar bears extinct.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Polar bears will treat you the same regardless of what colour, gender, or sexuality you are, to be fair.

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 10 months ago

IMO that's not very pertinent since we have the privilege of not being in that situation. Here's a quote from something I read that might help reconcile this:

If we understand this sense of negative and positive freedom, what appears as a contradictory stance within anarchism makes perfect sense. An anarchist might firmly believe that the Palestinian people deserve to be liberated from occupation, even if that means that they set up their own state. That same anarchist might also firmly believe that a Palestinian state, like all states, should be opposed in favor of nonstatist institutions. A complete sense of freedom would always include both the negative and positive senses—in this case, liberation from occupation and simultaneously the freedom to self-determine. Otherwise, as both actually existing Communist and liberal regimes have demonstrated, “freedom from” on its own will serve merely to enslave human potentiality, and at its most extreme, humans themselves; self-governance is denied in favor of a few governing over others. And “freedom to,” on its own, as capitalism has shown, will serve merely to promote egotistic individualism and pit each against each; self-determination trumps notions of collective good. Constantly working to bring both liberation and freedom to the table, within moments of resistance and reconstruction, is part of that same juggling act of approximating an increasingly differentiated yet more harmonious world.

-Cindy Milstein, Anarchism and Its Aspirations (2010)

This is something I just happened to read, but we've been discussing Palestine a lot in my discord server. If anyone would like links to some more readings about Palestine and why things are the way they are, I have a lot of links to free ebooks I'd be happy to share (freely accessible, non-pirated). I'm not sure it would be appropriate to post them here, and I lack the mental bandwidth to deal with the possibility of sea lions and other bad-faith responders, but I'd be happy to share the links in a DM.

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

They'd end up getting stoned in the not fun way, that's what.

[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Ah, yes, the "A lot of X people are homophobic, so who cares if the whole of X gets genocided" argument.

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