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"LibRehab" is a place to point people to when they showcase clear signs of Liberalism (not in a mean way). It is also a place to proactively destroy your liberalism before it becomes counterrevolutionary.

Posts here should be a mix of simplified theory, countering of historical revisionism / anti-communist talking points, and a nonjudgmental space for those on the journey of deprogramming their mind.

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What would you say to someone who says Hamas "use civilians as human shields"? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The obvious response is that Gaza is a very densely populated place, of course there's civilians near any given location, that's not a conspiracy by Hamas. But are there any other talking points I should hit?

(I'm not really a lib in rehab, but this seems like the comm for getting talking points straight)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

“Civilian shields” is (and probably always was) a thought terminating cliche to write off the killing of civilian. It’s been thrown around by Western media in like every American imperialist war effort of the past 50 years.

It’s dishonest language that attributes civilian deaths to the enemy, of course, because they’re the bad guys and they have no regard for human life. We would never target civilians, because we’re the good guys, right? If we kill a civilian, it’s because the enemy put them between us (good) and them (evil)