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There’s a section on his Wikipedia page about his political activism and work with politicians.
Work is slow.
There’s a section on his Wikipedia page about his political activism and work with politicians.
I literally just threw up. I feel better now though.
It was meant to be a self depreciating joke, but now I can’t help myself. I think this topic ends up having everybody involved make a bunch of assumptions about each other before it begins.
However, I have experienced people say that they, “don’t want to get political,” right after being confronted for saying something misinformed, hurtful, etc. It can be weaponized as an excuse to avoid self reflection.
I know that isn’t the case for everybody, but I have seen, “don’t make things political,” used as, “don’t bring in politics at odds with my own.” It’s often not even recognized by that person as being hypocritical. Sometimes our own politics can become the default in our mind and everybody else’s view is the “political” one.
Your apathy is part of the problem.
Yes, I am that friend/relative.
There’s a difference between justifications and reasons. I’m exhausted seeing people use the fact that atrocities are unjustified to hand wave away the reasons and circumstances that led to those atrocities.
The massacring of innocents isn’t justified, but the reason it happened isn’t that people magically became evil. The reason is that enduring apartheid oppression pushes people to extremism.
“Insider was unable to independently confirm what was found, but Israeli media outlets have also reported the claim, attributing it to soldiers.”
“The spokesperson told Insider that although he hadn’t seen images or videos himself, ‘soldiers on the ground who are there told me this.’”
From your own article they are the unconfirmed claims from somebody who’s job it is to spread propaganda.
Edit: To be clear the actions that are known to have been committed are horrific, but a group like Hamas does not appear from nothing. The perpetuation of an apartheid state is met with backlash.
You can push for change and foster a different type of environment without being miserable.
I’m on here because work is slow.
After reading I now appreciate David Gerard’s dedication.