• Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    15 days ago

    I just can’t believe how shocking this must be for her. She just makes videos to entertain children, because she wants to help and support kids, and then because she has basic human decency and loves children regardless of where they are born, she gets accusations and death threats and all manner of vile people wanting her dead. It must be so surreal for her, I hope it isn’t too stressful.

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      This is what we all feel in complicit countries, right? The shock that whenever you try to say publicly that Palestinian kids don’t deserve to die you risk getting fired and if you protest against the atrocities you get treated as a terrorist and are lucky if the cops don’t inflict permanent damage while beating you up. A lot of people never really get used to this dynamic but we still live with it and we continue to resist.

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        14 days ago

        Yeah I think pre-2023 nobody here would have predicted the backlash would be as severe as it was, from otherwise “thoughtful” “humanistic” liberals. I watched my friends be enthusiastically tased and shot with pepperballs for sitting in a college quad. Then all my other friends voted for Kamala and got mad at me for not doing the same.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      14 days ago

      Ms Rachel: I want Israeli and Palestinian children to live and be safe and I condemn the Al Qassam Brigade

      Al Qassam brigade: She must be protected (also we forgive her)

      Ms Rachel: I want Israeli and Palestinian children to live and be safe and I DON’T condemn Israel

      Israel: How dare you?! Antisemite of the year!

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    14 days ago

    Ms Rachel is probably a “two state solution vote blue no matter who” turbolib but just the statement of “i think all children deserve to live” is enough to make you a polarizing political figure

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    15 days ago

    Every child and every person. Nothing changes when they get older. For some reason a lot of people who might be sympathetic to kids still think that adults in your own borders are more valuable than people anywhere else.

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      14 days ago

      I genuinely hope lots of people are finding it wild that this is a controversial statement

      Given you had Hillary go on that (zionist talk show? Convention?) and completely being at odds with the average dem voter position, I’m kind of concerned that her fans will just sway anti-Palestinian kids; at first I thought perhaps people like Hillary are just paid really well to hold the positions she does, but I think her and many like her (including her husband) really are just basically destiny-clone ‘classic liberals’ who see non-Westerners as just savages to be at best tolerated and worked around