For fucks sake. What have we done to people that they can’t have nuanced opinions anymore? Suddenly, “bin Laden was right because he agrees with me on this issue!” You’ve been ‘lied to your whole life?’ How fucking stupid do you have to be? Like…you know he isn’t hated for…his feelings on Palestine, right?
“I love dogs just SO SO MUCH and I don’t care who knows it!” If I go on to use that rationale to kill thousands…would people be on my side because dogs are awesome? It’s not the justification that’s the issue. I mean, shit, I was a kid, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the patriot act and bush in general radicalized me very young. And 9/11 happened, and even then, at the height of 200 fever, I could separate out my feelings for his rationale and my feeling about how awful it was to see so many people die like that. I had nuanced feelings about the situation, because I was saying the same things, I knew that what the US was doing in the Middle East (and had been doing longer than I’d been alive) had been disgusting and wrong.
…but I still wasn’t pro 9/11? They showed bin Laden’s reasoning for a long time on the news. It wasn’t a secret. You were never lied to. You just can’t differentiate between a hot button issue and literally anything else if someone agrees with you. Which is why people are supporting…Hamas. Hamas is a terrible far-right organization that doesn’t give a shit about the Palestinian people. But because “Israel vs Hamas” seems to be the dichotomy, people can’t understand that they’re not actually pro-Hamas.
….okay. I—
For fucks sake. What have we done to people that they can’t have nuanced opinions anymore? Suddenly, “bin Laden was right because he agrees with me on this issue!” You’ve been ‘lied to your whole life?’ How fucking stupid do you have to be? Like…you know he isn’t hated for…his feelings on Palestine, right?
“I love dogs just SO SO MUCH and I don’t care who knows it!” If I go on to use that rationale to kill thousands…would people be on my side because dogs are awesome? It’s not the justification that’s the issue. I mean, shit, I was a kid, the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and the patriot act and bush in general radicalized me very young. And 9/11 happened, and even then, at the height of 200 fever, I could separate out my feelings for his rationale and my feeling about how awful it was to see so many people die like that. I had nuanced feelings about the situation, because I was saying the same things, I knew that what the US was doing in the Middle East (and had been doing longer than I’d been alive) had been disgusting and wrong.
…but I still wasn’t pro 9/11? They showed bin Laden’s reasoning for a long time on the news. It wasn’t a secret. You were never lied to. You just can’t differentiate between a hot button issue and literally anything else if someone agrees with you. Which is why people are supporting…Hamas. Hamas is a terrible far-right organization that doesn’t give a shit about the Palestinian people. But because “Israel vs Hamas” seems to be the dichotomy, people can’t understand that they’re not actually pro-Hamas.
I just feel like we’ve gotten SO GODDAMN STUPID.