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[–] Xavier@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Random shower thought:

When a group of people that have been historicaly subject to genocide, take measures to commits genocide themselves; do they lose their “Victim of Genocide” card?

As in two opposite cancels each others? Or as in two negatives becomes a positive?

(An awful way too put it, but I kind of wondered about that just now)

[–] samson@aussie.zone 11 points 1 year ago

This implies there's such thing as a victim of genocide card which there isnt.

[–] Neve8028@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

There are loads of Jews who are against what Israel is doing. The actions of a government don't indicate the views of a whole ethnicity of people. It's like calling all Germans perpetrators of genocide.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

When a group of people that have been historicaly subject to genocide, take measures to commits genocide themselves; do they lose their “Victim of Genocide” card?

No. This first part is correct...

a group of people that have been historicaly subject to genocide

...thanks to "western civilization," Jewish people have been subjected to marginalization, demonisation and even genocide. But the second part...

take measures to commits genocide themselves

...is based on a false assumption - that it's Jewish people that are doing this... and that's simply not true. Israel is not a Jewish thing - it's a Zionist thing. Zionism can be Jewish, Christian or even non-religious.

Some of Israel's fiercest critics are Jewish, for instance.

Sooo... the answer is no.