Both-Sidesism In The Age Of Wokeness
You don't always know who someone is simply by the words they say. This is as true for organizations as it is for individuals, and it'sespecially true in the case of the United Nations. They can blab all they want about peace, but if you really want to know who they are and what their goals are, you must look at what they do, including the decisions they make.
Just last week, the UN rejected a motion to condemn the Hamas attacks on October 7th. Because really, it's not that big a deal - it was just colonizers, after all.
Oh, but don't worry - this same group also voted overwhelmingly to adopt an Arab-drafted resolution "expressing grave concern at the latest escalation of violence since the 7 October 2023 attack". So, not the October 7th attack itself, just the retaliation for said attack. And of course they're also calling for a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza, because killing people is bad, or at least when Israel has the upper hand it's bad. A “humanitarian truce” means that Israel should just stop. And when Israel stops, only an idiot would believe that Hamas will also stop. But of course, those who adopted this resolution are not idiots, are they?
I never thought I'd see the day that the atrocities that were perpetrated against innocent women and children on that day would actually merit any kind of debate at all about whether they were justified or not. I still can barely accept that weeks later there are people in my country who are still defending those attacks. They are literally defending the indefensible. Most of the time they don't even have a reason for that defense, or at least not one they can articulate.
One of the more bizarre things I've seen in the last few weeks is the above picture. Here it is again:
Okay, so it's obviously all about colonialism. This is the buzzword of the month. These people who defend that attack as “taking back their land” or as “standing up to the colonizers” are also implying they see that as an acceptable form of retaliation in a place like Canada. We are a colony as well, after all.
Anyway, back to that picture. The very idea of “Queers for Palestine” is laughable, but like a really badly thought out joke, it's hard to get the humour. Do any of these people involved really believe that they would be welcome anywhere near Palestine? Well, they likely would be in Israel, but do they really think that they could walk down the street in Gaza City with their blue hair proclaiming their queerness for all to see as if they were in downtown Toronto? I sincerely doubt it would take even an hour before someone hauled them up onto a roof so they could toss them back down onto the street.
Still, people are attempting to “both-sides” this war in the interest of appearing inclusive and sophisticated or something. Someone told me the other day that it's the Jews who are using their God and religion as their excuse to destroy Palestine. I almost spit out my beer when I heard that one. This after hundreds of crazy Hamas lunatics ran around literally screaming “PRAISE THE LORD!” as they were mowing people down with AK-47s and lopping their off heads with machetes.
I mentioned this to this guy and his response was, “two wrongs don't make a right”. Well alrighty then, I guess you got me there…
The funniest thing about the individual that was making these comments is that he identifies as “pan-sexual” (whatever that means). So here we have this pan-sexual dude living in Canada who also happens to be extremely hostile to the Catholic Church on account of the “genocide” perpetrated against our indigenous population. Anyway, he’s now faced with two choices. Or at least, he thinks he is:
A democratic nation with a diverse population and actual human rights, including for LGBTQ people, who just suffered the worst mass murder since the Holocaust, and
An intolerant terrorist organization run by religious fanatics who's charter specifically advocates for genocide, and who would more than likely throw him off the roof of a building were he to make himself known there.
He chooses #2.
This is wild. The only reason I'm picking on this guy is because he is emblematic of the kind of people who support this right now. In fact, he seems to be the poster boy (or girl, or tom-girl, or whatever) for this bizarre belief that the only thing that matters is that you're against Israel. This is taking the idea of “the enemy of my enemy” to a whole new level.
It's mind-numbing.
Along similar lines (and this might actually be an interesting discussion), it's difficult to know which of the following is stupider:
Attacking a nation that is a thousand times more powerful than you are in the hopes that enough people are going to like you enough to come to your rescue, or
Agreeing to an immediate ceasefire with a terrorist organization who's only reason for existence is to kill every single one of you.
Let's take a step back into reality here just for a moment. Obviously these people don't live here with the rest of us since they fully endorse both of these options.
As far as colonialism goes, I'm pretty sure there is no country on earth that is currently inhabited and controlled by its original occupants, which sucks for the original occupants, but this is the way things have always worked. If you know of a country that is, you can let me know.
And while we're at it, here's another truth-bomb for you:
There will never be any kind of peace with Hamas. Ever. It doesn't matter what kind of rainbow-powered mental gymnastics is levied against this, it will never, ever happen. There are evidently only two choices - one is the destruction of Israel (which according to Hamas really does mean the killing of the Jews). The other choice is the destruction of Hamas. Unlike the first choice, this second choice doesn’t mean the killing of all Palestinians.
Just in case you're still unsure what Israel is up against here, and why an "immediate ceasefire" is such a bad idea, here is Ghazi Hamad of the Hamas Political Bureau on October 24th of this year:
Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove that country, because it constitutes a security, military, and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nation, and must be finished. We are not ashamed to say this, with full force.
We must teach Israel a lesson, and we will do this again and again. The Al-Aqsa Flood is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth, because we have the determination, the resolve, and the capabilities to fight. Will we have to pay a price? Yes, and we are ready to pay it. We are called a nation of martyrs, and we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.
The occupation must come to an end. I am talking about all the Palestinian lands.
The existence of Israel is illogical. The existence of Israel is what causes all that pain, blood, and tears. It is Israel, not us. We are the victims of the occupation. Period. Therefore, nobody should blame us for the things we do. On October 7, October 10, October 1,000,000 – everything we do is justified.
Wow. October one millionth, eh? That's pretty specific.
In the entire middle east, the only democracy; the only advocate for human rights; and the West's only ally; is Israel. They are literally a tiny progressive drop in an Arabian sea which is largely opposed to everything we in the West hold dear. If there was a “ceasefire” tomorrow, why would any sane person believe Hamas would just hang up their guns? Especially given that Hamas’ very Charter extolls the virtues of literally killing every Jew.
If Hamas was permitted to "take back Palestine", what would prevent them from expanding that to the rest of the Arab world? And then to Europe?
Have you ever wondered why no one advocated for an immediate ceasefire when Hitler was rampaging through Europe? And have you ever wondered where we'd be if that idea had been taken seriously? I have, and I may have a good imagination, but it's a pretty grim scene in my mind. Thank whatever god you like that we didn't succumb to that idiocy back in the 1940s.
At that time, “two wrongs” absolutely did make a right, and as nasty as that war was, the world has been a much more wonderful place because of it for the better part of 80 years now. So regardless of who you believe has “the right” to live in that part of the world, and regardless of which side you prefer, there are some things that are just flat-out wrong and these shouldn't be tolerated by any society - least of all one that professes to stand for human rights and dignity.
A very famous Jew once offered this bit of advice to his followers:
Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
Matthew 7:6
I think Queers for Palestine would do well to take this advice to heart, and so would every other thrower of pearls in this part of the world because the swine are just waiting to trample these idiotic ideologies that seek to rule over our common sense and decency so they can do what they did on October 7th again and again, until “October 1,000,000th”.
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You said, “I never thought I'd see the day that the atrocities that were perpetrated against innocent women and children on that day would actually merit any kind of debate at all about whether they were justified or not.”
Can’t the exact same statement be made of those now defending Israel’s violence? What’s the difference? I mean except that you and the people at the highest levels of power don’t seem to think that brutal violence against certain groups of civilians is somehow more 'acceptable'?
Can you explain what the difference is between shooting someone to death in their home using an AK47, or blowing someone up in their home using a targeted bomb or a round from a tank? Is there a moral difference? Why?
I (and basically everyone that I know) believe that they are both equally morally indefensible. Whether or not they are ‘justified’ is not debatable. It is not.
Allow me to interpret the ‘Queers for Palestine’ sign for you.
The term ‘pink washing’ is a variation on ‘green washing’, which is when companies or organizations promote their ‘green’ virtues as a form of branding or marketing. The term implies that this is being done in a cynical attempt to boost sales by appealing to consumers’ awareness of environmental issues, without making any meaningful contribution to the ‘green’ causes they claim to care about. Or worse, to distract from the active harm they might be causing (think oil companies using images of wind turbines in their marketing/advertising).
‘Pink washing’ is the same thing but related to gay/trans issues (think companies putting gay couples in their ads etc.)
In this situation, the “pink washing” they’re referring to is the Israel apologists (like Ken) using Israel’s ‘woke’ credentials to somehow justify killing children.
As in: “well, those Arabs are smelly homophobes, their lives aren’t important. Israel’s aggression is acceptable because rainbow flags and all our happy gays”
The creators of this sign are rejecting that moronic nonsense, and by adding “Queers for Palestine”, they are in fact stating the obvious, which is that EVEN people who live in societies or under regimes which aren’t open and tolerant, STILL don’t deserve to have their families murdered.