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Israeli soldiers sing "the train moves on" whilst kidnapping a family from the West Bank (i.imgur.com)

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You'd think Israelis would have a genetic fear of trains, but I'd have said the same thing about genocide and yet here we are

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I think that in the last 30 or 40 years people have relentlessly been fed racist bullshit, only it's been portrayed as anti-Racism.

So "Jews this", "Jews that", only it's all things that paint all members of that specific etnicity in a good light like "they're victims", "were oppressed", "have Western Values" and so on, hence it's sold as "the opposite of Racism" because it's says good things about the character of all individuals of an etnicity rather than bad things.

However all that shit is still the very same "people from etnicity X are all the same" mindset as the Nazis had: the core Prejudice that millions of people can just be reduced to members of a Race and treated as if they're all the same is no different in Nazism from that in Liberal politics.

Hence the surprise when Israel - the self-proclaimed "Jewish Nation" and representative of all "Jews" - turns out to not at all act as "victims" or "opprossed", and instead act as the very opposite, victimizing and oppressing others to such extremes that they're at the same level of depravation as those of the Nazis themselves.

All this to say that people need to try and overcome the brainwashing by spotting when their own thoughts, judgments and conclusions are anchored on racial-prejudice, even when said prejudice might be oriented in a direction which seems "positive" - most such "surprises" as when the "Jewish Nation" turns out to be the latest variant of the Nazis aren't at all surprising when you stop thinking "Jews are X, Y and Z" and instead just think of people as being people, which means that some when they get power combined with de facto immunity for their actions act in the most horrid of ways and the majority around them will just go along with it and even convince themselves of the most extraordinary justifications (in the case of Israel that being extremely racist takes on Palestinians and Arabs in general) for why the actions they're going along with are the right thing to do.