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Conflating the Palestinian resistance with ICE is pretty damn creepy in my book.
It's trying to erase the century of Zionist atrocities, erase the fact that the hostages were dancing on Palestinian graves, and attribute zionist bloodlust and friendly fire/orcish disregard for hostages to their victims, while keeping an event used for Zionist excusing of genocide in the minds and imaginations of readers.
Its more complex than usual hazbarite shit, but not less vile. You do not want this scum on your server.
Simple heuristic:
It is impossible for any Palestinian to commit an injustice against a Zionist. Literally impossible. A Palestinian sociopath (if there's anyone left in Palestine old enough for the diagnostic criteria to apply) could rape and eat a thousand Zionist larvae and it you would be a monster for stopping them.
I read it and I don't think it wasn't conflating them, I think it was just a simile. Granted, I think OP was wrong here and the simile didn't track because of it, but still, the ICE mentions could've been swapped with something entirely separate and the conversation would remain the same because it wasn't a direct comparison.
If they swapped the comparisons with something appropriate - for instance, MK capturing white South Africans to trade for the thousands the Apartheid-regime kidnapped and disappeared - their point stops looking so obvious, doesn't it?
Similes are rhetorical conflations. A conflation is generally an attempt to treat two similar ideas as roughly the same, which is the rhetorical purpose of a simile. If you didn't see the comparison between the two events and want to link the ideas in the audience's mind you would use different examples.
Tl;Dr the rhetorical act of comparing presumed like to like is usually a rhetorical act of conflation
Kidnapping civilians is unequivocally bad regardless of whether we think the kidnapper is on the right side of history.
Being unable to acknowledge the wrongs committed by those whom we support is pretty damn horrifying in my book. To see the same willfully ignorant "america/trump/the church can do no wrong" attitude but on the Left breaks my heart.
Zionists, not c8vilians. They are all armed and military trained. There| is not w Zionist civilian. Fuck off liar.
Really? We literally are forced to exist with taxpayer-funded institutions whose entire purpose is to kidnap civilians as part of their function to repress dissent - they are called police.
Fyi, I am absolutely conflating the institution of policing with that of Israel - it's perfectly justified as they are both colonialist and white supremacist creations.
Besides all that, Israel - like all colonialist entities - have, since it's invention, made little secret of the fact that they de facto make zero distinction between "civilians" and "combatants." Therefore, I see no need to hold the Palestinian resistance to the high standards that white liberalism have refused to apply to Israel for decades now - especially when the crimes (if they can even be called that) the Palestinian resistance have committed is downright microscopic in comparison to those perpetrated by Israel and it's benefactors for more than half a century now.
Just so I understand, it's totally cool and heck, probably good for Hamas to murder as many Israelis as they can but simultaneously, we are embarrassed about accurately counting the killed?
What are you counting so "accurately," Clyde? Do you have an "accurate" tally of all the Israelis the IDF slaughtered on Oct 7 because murdering Palestinians is far more important to them than keeping their own people alive?
Don't feign ignorance... seems to me that you know exactly what you are doing here.
If you look at the actual post you're commenting on, you should be able yo figure it out, I have faith in you Bob!
Then you sould have no problem providing us with these "accurate" numbers of yours, shouldn't you?
Again, if you uhhh, look at the post to which you are referring, you'll find them! I still believe in you!
If you really are having difficulties reading the post etc, just let me know.
Soooo... you don't have "accurate" tallies?
In the post, the thing about which you are commenting, there's the death total provided by OP. There are hostages, taken in the attack who died as a result of being taken hostage.
I provided both in the comment in this post.
I have no idea what accurate tallies you are demanding or what they would have to do with the Guardians headline. Are you a bot?
Why do you insist on talking like the most insufferable Reddit loser imaginable?
Holy shit kid, I was going to give an actual response but then, good God, read your comment history. You seem determined to be miserable at people.
I hope you are more pleasant in real life and/or things get better for you.
Take care.
Those people never are.
It just seems wild to me. They have almost 2K comments and if they're mostly like this... Like, it doesn't seem enough to be trolling just... unpleasant? Blech.
Go back to Reddit, loser
1,758 comments in ten months with a 34% up/down ration, I can't imagine choosing to spend so much time being so unpleasant and seemingly unhappy.
Holy shit go back to Reddit
The Nazi speaks more!
Yes. Dead Nazis are always a good thing, and it's extra cool when their victims do it.
Says the lying pieve if shit nazi
Cute to see the mask slip, though.
Fuck off zionist
Okay, hope you feel better friend!
Edit: missed a pair of words, like a jerk!
Do you still remember being human? I'm always curious about that. What would the human you were have said to the thing you are now?
Do you think Israel are the good guys in this situation?
Ignoring that they have Gaza as an open air prison, they have magnitudes more Palestinians in prison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinians_in_Israeli_custody.
Did you mean to respond to another comment or did you completely miss the point?
Edit: to put it more politely... The entire above point is that rhe evil of Israel's war does not change whether murdering and kidnapping civilians is wrong.
See this reinforces the removal you're complaining about.
What you miss is at this point Israel has been ICE the entire time
Do you not understand why going into a thread about bias in reporting to make Israel look good then blaming Palestinians and equating hamas to ice would be frowned upon?
Read what you are responding to but carefully.
Just because it's not the answer you want doesn't mean it wasn't read or said carefully.
It's more that the answer makes no sense in the context of the post, but sure!
Gotta love when people come in here acting like the innocent victim and then take their mask off in the comments.
It is always bad unless it is Israel who does it
That's literally the opposite of the point to which you are responding.
Your lies are subtler and better crafted than most, and it looks like people here still aren't buying them.
You ain't fooling anybody
Are you sure you're responding to the comment you think you are? Maybe double check?
IH no, the Nazi gaslights! Fuck off nazi.
it's always been there lol