Comment on A woman tried to call her mom in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWell according to the Democrats, I should always support the lesser of two evils, so now Iran is good. /s
For real though, it’s called critical support. You can support Iran’s right to defend against genocide while simultaneously criticizing their human rights abuses.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
So it’s ok for you to give “critical support” to an authoritarian regime, but super bad for someone to give “critical support” to Israel for fighting against an authoritarian whose proxies massacred villages? Why isn’t Iranian proxies massacring villages, Iran itself firing missiles at civilian populations (including a hosptial) something you don’t consider to be genocide?
How do you determine which genocide you support and which genocide you’re against?
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Attacking civilians doesn’t automatically make it a genocide. If that were true, then pretty much every war ever was a genocide.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
So why is the Israel-Hamas war considered a genocide? Is it a numbers thing? Most other wars throughout history had many more civilian casualties than there’s been in the Israel-Hamas war.
What makes the Israel-Hamas war a genocide and for example, the Vietnam war not be considered a genocide?
hraegsvelmir@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Because Vietnam was a war of ideologies, not a land grab intended to wipe out the current occupants so they could be entirely replaced by a “superior, chosen” people not of the ethnicity of the current residents.
This is such a mindblowingly stupid attempt at a gotcha question. Ffs, you literally had over a million Vietnamese fighting on the same side as the US in the ARVN during the course of the war. The belligerent parties in a conflict both being composed of largely the same peoples fighting each other tends to preclude it being described as a genocide.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Because of the genocidal rhetoric war aims behavior and aesthetics.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Oh, so authoritarian regimes whose proxies massacre villages are bad now?
Fuck you. Stop talking shit about my country.
FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No, I don’t give critical support to Israel because they are a settler colonial project who, along with the US and other Western powers, started all of the troubles in the Middle East in the first place.
No critical support for imperialists.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
It can’t hear you. It’s being paid to not.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
It?
Who’s paying you to dehumanize people?
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Wow… just wow. You really need to read a history book if you think there was never any troubles in the Middle East before modern Israel existed.
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
No, it’s true.