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Hamas official says they will repeat Oct. 7 attacks
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Many people are calling Hamas "freedom fighters" and outright defending its actions. I would say a significant portion of Fediverse users fall into this camp, from what I've seen.
A majority? Well, you're either lying or you have a severely distorted view of reality.
We're simply calling for the stop of oppression and genocide and ethnic cleansing, if that constitute supporting Hamas then you be you.
No, I mean people literally calling Hamas "freedom fighters", and outright cheering them on. There's a difference between "calling for the stop of oppression and genocide and ethnic cleansing" and blatantly supporting the actions of a terror organization.
People cheer for nazis, too. Are you going to make a generic claim that "It's mind-blowing that people defend these monsters" as well? Maybe you should make a comment about people who "defend" mass shooters too! Let's not forget all those "defenders" of eugenics.
Just because you see one or two people making propaganda doesn't mean it's something reasonable people are doing.
Yes. If I ever see a significant number of people defending the Nazis in spaces I speak in I will say exactly that.
In fact that's exactly what you should do, they need to be called out.
Man, when you go outside some time you're going to have your mind absolutely shattered at all the surprising things people do.
It's a meaningless phrase meant to distance yourself from something distasteful. It has no bearing on anything but the person saying it, unless they're using it as a dog-whistle to call out people who are saying something they don't like, as BaldProphet is doing above.
You seem quite disturbed and angered by the fact that I would be disturbed and voice that worry if I saw a bunch of Nazis around.
You have a poor grasp of the situation if that's how you're interpreting it.
I don't believe it is reasonable, but as I said, I am surprised by how many people are unreasonably supportive of Hamas, despite otherwise priding themselves on being progressive forward-thinkers.
Probably because you're misinterpreting lack of support for Israel as support of Hamas.
You think most people here are like that? Most people seem to be appalled by what Hamas did on October 7th. Most people also seem to be appalled by Israel killing huge numbers of civilians.
Yes, but i rarely see the latter, mostly former.
There's no need to be defensive. I find both the IDF and Hamas detestable, and I've seen support for both here. There isn't a lot of pro IDF support, but I call it out still. Even a little bit is too much.
Calling out someone lumping anti-oppression/anti-genocide with pro-hamas is defensive? That's the narrative pro-idf keep pushing.
That's not what the person you were speaking to was saying. They were talking about people who were actually defending Hamas, not just criticizing Israel. They didn't lump the two together. The IDF and it's supporters love pushing that, but there's no need to automatically assume someone is on their side when they talk about seeing pro Hamas people.
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Did you replied to the wrong comment or something?
Looks like I did. Sorry for the trouble.
I have never seen anyone supporting hamas, at most justifying the legitimacy of some of its objectives and the right to fight for them, but not its actions; always being critical of hamas and its war crimes.
In fact, high tolerance or even open support for war crimes is something I have only seen on the zionist side.
You've got people doing it in this very thread. Blaming Israel for Hamas murdering people isn't exactly being critical of their actions.
https://lemmy.world/comment/5040910
Prime example from above. And it's net positive on votes.
Edit: Why can't we simply agree that supporting the IDF is fucked up, supporting Hamas is fucked up, and they're all awful people?
There is nothing legitimate about Hamas. It is a terror organization.
dismantling settlements, cleansing the land of the IDF, and regaining their land are all legitimate objectives and should be supported.
Funni sounds like gaming.
That's not a great argument. Just because your objectives are legitimate doesn't mean your actions are legitimate.
He's saying that Hamas isn't legitimate because they committed atrocities. I will never accept this until people acknowledge that the occupation government isn't legitimate, and doesn't deserve a dime.
Let me be clear here: if you have to choose the lesser of two evils, then the occupation government will not be your choice, no matter what's on the other side.
I don't understand this way of thinking. Why does what people believe about the legitimacy of the Israeli government have any effect on your acceptance of atrocities?
It doesn't, atrocities are atrocities, but if people think that Hamas isn't legitimate for their atrocities, then the occupation government is even less legitimate for theirs.
I feel like your argument here gets slippery very quickly. You're basically advocating for 'win at all costs' if you're on a specific side and that's real hard to support.
Advocating for a "win at all costs" strategy is something you should accuse people supporting the murder of dozens of people because there's a Hamas leader amongst them (still disputed) of.
I don't want civilians to be harmed and I don't support terrorizing people until they retaliate. those two qualities make me a better person compared to any occupation government supporter (person on the other side). lets say that I support the murder of civilians until Hamas achieves their objectives, that would only bring me down to their level, if not a little higher.
You're redirecting now and trying to walk it back, but those are your words.
Am I? Lets put the quoted words back in their original context:
Let me break that down for you:
BTW everyone can see what you're giving boosts to on Kbin. It's very weird that there are two people on the same platform (kbin), with the same position on this conflict, who have the same weird habit.
I saw comments explicitly supporting Hamas and their recent actions on Lemmygrad a few weeks ago. Someone was even posting about how they hoped hostages get tortured by Hamas. I haven't gone back but I assume you can still find those people there. They aren't really any different than the Zionist extremists who support IDF war crimes, they just use different language to justify the horror.
I completely believe you, but pointing at Lemmygrad for anything like that is kind of a low bar. If there's any possibility that it could go against Western Interests, the community is automatically for it. They don't really care what's actually going on, they just work backwards from being 'Anti-Western' and figure out how to support it later.