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Of course I don’t condemn Hamas (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by star_wraith@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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And you know who I also don’t condemn?

The IRA

The Viet Minh

John Brown

Haitian slaves who revolted

Native American fighters

Black Panthers

National Liberation Front (Algeria)

Nelson Mandela

The 26th of July Movement

Every one of them were called “terrorists” or something equivalent at some point. Now think about who’s on the opposite of this list. Apartied South Africa, slavers, settlers, Zionists, the US government… There is only one moral and just side to be on and it’s not even a discussion.

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[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 116 points 10 months ago

Nelson Mandela is a good historical figure to bring up in this context. Liberals love him for his rehabilitated image as a peace negotiator, but he didn’t go to prison for writing letters to the editor.

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 65 points 10 months ago

They love crowing on about Nelson Mandela in prison but always without a single murmur about what he was unjustly imprisoned for

thinkin-lenin

[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 24 points 10 months ago

I exposed one Redditor as a collaborator during the Apartheid in South Africa because I immediately went for the carotid artery with the "historical context"

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 22 points 10 months ago

Nelson Mandela was literally considered a terrorist by the US government until 2008

[-] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

If they had any integrity they still would.

[-] ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net 15 points 10 months ago

They repeatedly offered to release him from jail in exchange for denouncing socialism. He did no such thing. He also reached a point where he refused to condemn violent rebellion because the non-violence wasn’t getting the goods. What liberals unknowingly worship him for, in their civility fetishism, is his acts of public reconciliation with the colonizers. Would have been good to get that post-apartheid wealth redistribution instead but what’s done is done.