"All the they/thems in this thread are bigots, they're actually right-wingers!" - WTF is this take
epicspongee
joined 1 year ago
To be clear in the dunking threads folks are not usually engaging in good faith with us. When I was on another server and replied with actual questions to stuff everyone was incredibly nice to me and explained stuff super well. Can agree though that folks can see dunking as alientating. I promise though if you can get past that it's one of the friendliest communities I've found on the web.
I mean that's fair, but what you're doing is like going into a public library and throwing a rave party.
Have you read any of the threads on here? Y'all are absolutely vitriolic against Hexbear users. That is not a 'public library' lmfao
No, you are like a cookie in a jar, im a observer.
Genuinely what the fuck does this mean
Blowback has done more for my understanding of Cuba and North Korea than any other piece of media I've ever consumed
Lord I'm still listening to Season 2 of Blowback and haven't gotten to Season 3 yet but I had no clue about this, that's genuinely fucked up
I mean no, it's not. The main anti-colonial group left in Gaza, which is massively popular, is an organization whose primary driving force is Islam. Religion is an incredibly important cultural force that is a key driving factor for Gazans and other Palestinian people in this fight. That is a materialist analysis of the situation lol because that is what the Palestinians themselves are saying. Just look at the wording used by the people there: the dead aren't the dead but 'martyrs', and this isn't just a conflict but a 'jihad' (righteous fight).
Hakim is very correctly noting the obvious here in that a vast majority of the Palestinians are Muslim and that their faith is a primary driver of this conflict for them. Painting in broad strokes isn't denying that there aren't any secular Palestinians, but talking about how Palestinians are fighting back and resisting in aggregate / at a zoomed out level.