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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I was at a pro-Palestine campus protest and there were times where I was instinctively uncomfortable because they were really hammering in the whole bit about reported 'antisemitic action on campus' being a non-issue and I had to remind myself that they aren't talking about people acting against Jews, they're talking about people acting against Israel.

It's my most personal and privileged grievance against Israel. I no longer know if a supposed threat to my safety is a bullshit bludgeon to silence pro-Palestine voices or if the yank reich is actually in town and I need to commute for the rest of the week.

I'll never forgive them for it. I'll never forgive them for a lot of things, but this is the most personal grievance I have, and since I'm born and raised a cracker suburbanite, it's the only one I truly, directly feel in my personal life.

I don't want this to override, you know, the actually important grievances that are at stake for Palestine here, and I don't want to make myself the center of this issue when I'm very much not at all, but I guess I've just been stewing in this for a bit, and I want to uncap it before it somehow causes me to become a weird crank through lack of addressing the root of the issue and it festering into my belief system shrug-outta-hecks

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

I call it the "boy who cried wolf" effect. There's the old fable of the boy who cries wolf, gets the whole village to come out, he laughs at them, etc. They go back into their homes. He does this so many times they stop believing him. Then he gets mauled to death when a wolf really shows up. Of course that's not how wolves behave, blah blah blah but you get the point.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's not really a good take on it because it's not like Jewish people in general listen to this shit, it's literally just zionist

When the wolves come it's not the state of Israel that gets devoured, it's the rest of the normal people that have had their terms misused that do

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

yeah, you're right, it's not a good analogy. I can't think of a better one though.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

It's the boy who cried wolf except he's doing it to a village actively being devoured by wolves, also the boy brought the wolves into the village

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