• SadArtemis@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    IMO it’s because the genocide of non-white, non-Christian peoples is exactly what their unspoken beliefs are- even if they don’t outright admit it, often even to themselves- those who support Isntreal (“conservatives” and “liberals” alike) ultimately are simply no different from the Nazis. The unspoken belief they all share is that the west is “the garden,” and the rest of the world “the jungle” to be either tamed or destroyed as they please- and while their notions of what “the garden” might vary from “just Christians,” “just whites,” “just WASPs,” “just Americans,” etc… ultimately their attitude remains the same. To them, the slaughter and exploitation of non-western lives is a good thing- it’s “their side” winning, how their bread gets buttered. They’re no different than the crusading Europeans of the past, or the conquistadors, or the settlers and institutions that founded and expanded the US westwards to the Pacific and beyond- they’re the inheritors of that legacy and mindset.

    Gaza is the litmus test, as I see it. There’s a visible minority of conservatives, for instance, who are horrified with the genocide. But those who support it are not some anomaly- what is going on in Gaza, has been the foundation of western society up to this point, the building blocks of the past 500 years of western imperialism worldwide. Of course most conservatives (and even many liberals) will support it as such- those who don’t are the real outliers if anything, the ones who bought into all the ideals their beliefs were marketed as, rather than the reality of what their beliefs have always supported.