acknowledging that both sides support a genocide and moving past that because there’s nothing you can do to change it isn’t trivialising it; it’s being realistic about a whole lot of horrendous options… sticking your head in the sand doesn’t magically make the genocide go away
if you live in the US, and pay taxes, you contribute to that same genocide… if you have no choice in the matter, i don’t see how you can be responsible for it
voting is similar; your 2 realistic options for voting in the US were republican or democrat… no other choice was going to effect the outcome of this particular issue. in that case, either look at which choice was less awful for the issue or put that to the side if you think they’re both the same and look at other things: queer rights, protection of democracy, economy, etc
no matter how you slice it, voting democrat means fewer people would have died, globally and domestically; that’s how you move past it… by realising that genocide was going to happen no matter what, so may as well save some other lives and keep trying to fight the genocide in other ways
On foreign policy, the only thing that changes are which imperialists will we be allies with. The death tolls don’t change much, just sometimes the location.
acknowledging that both sides support a genocide and moving past that because there’s nothing you can do to change it isn’t trivialising it; it’s being realistic about a whole lot of horrendous options… sticking your head in the sand doesn’t magically make the genocide go away
How does one just “move past” backing genociders?
if you live in the US, and pay taxes, you contribute to that same genocide… if you have no choice in the matter, i don’t see how you can be responsible for it
voting is similar; your 2 realistic options for voting in the US were republican or democrat… no other choice was going to effect the outcome of this particular issue. in that case, either look at which choice was less awful for the issue or put that to the side if you think they’re both the same and look at other things: queer rights, protection of democracy, economy, etc
no matter how you slice it, voting democrat means fewer people would have died, globally and domestically; that’s how you move past it… by realising that genocide was going to happen no matter what, so may as well save some other lives and keep trying to fight the genocide in other ways
Let’s be real: just maybe domestically.
On foreign policy, the only thing that changes are which imperialists will we be allies with. The death tolls don’t change much, just sometimes the location.
Describing genocide as “they have their problems” is absolutely genocide trivialization.