If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. - Desmond Tutu
It really is that simple folks. Any both-sidesism, well-actualling, or fence-sitting as it relates to Israel and Palestine is simple moral cowardice. Anything less than full-throated support for Palestinian liberation and denunciation of Israel apartheid and murder is de facto support for Israel.
Liberals love to talk about nuance and how actually issues are very complex because they don't have principles; they have positions that can be changed at any moment according to their convenience. They pretend that not taking a stand is a sign of their intelligence, maturity and objectivity. In actuality they are as cowardly and vicious as the most rabid neocon. Their hands are drenched in blood.
Sorry, just had to vent. The last week has been a real blackpill for me, even as someone who lived through the hysteria of 9/11. Death to America. Death to Israel. Death to the West.
It's getting very annoying seeing even people who don't do this both sides-ing usually, to preemptively say "we condemn civilian casualities" and implying that Hamas is going around executing random people for no reason, which of course there is no evidence of. Like the Citations Needed guys just said that Hamas was killing children or something like that. Like wtf. Like the racism is so ingrained they see a militant Muslim organization and immediately go like "yeah they're probably evil baby killing maniacs".
Where are people even getting this stuff from, other than racist stereotypes that have been cultivated by Western media over the last century?
I love Citations Needed, but sometimes I feel like they are overly careful with the things they say in order to not scare away curious liberals.
That and at the end of the day they still want to get paid from people's Visa cards.