So glad I discovered your posts & articles today. Good advice here. Unfortunately I'm not so wise but will try to be so in the future. Emotions often take the upper hand. Thank you once more.
you are correct, it is used as a cudgel. 'condemning Hamas' is the 'expected behavior' for most to 'show you are a good person' . In the article, I was thinking mostly as if you are making posts etc on social media. So starting with 'i don't condemn hamas' is a really tough starting point and potentially hazardous to employment. There are plenty of other, better (IMO) starting points, personally, i feel discussions of Hamas can be held after the genocide is stopped. If someone asks in a comment i usually just ignore them. As you pointed out, people aren't actually interested in the response, they want to distract from the ongoing genocide.
This is brilliant and so helpful, thank you
So glad I discovered your posts & articles today. Good advice here. Unfortunately I'm not so wise but will try to be so in the future. Emotions often take the upper hand. Thank you once more.
It is honestly absurd that we 'have to be careful' while advocating against genocide but it is sadly the world we are in today
you are correct, it is used as a cudgel. 'condemning Hamas' is the 'expected behavior' for most to 'show you are a good person' . In the article, I was thinking mostly as if you are making posts etc on social media. So starting with 'i don't condemn hamas' is a really tough starting point and potentially hazardous to employment. There are plenty of other, better (IMO) starting points, personally, i feel discussions of Hamas can be held after the genocide is stopped. If someone asks in a comment i usually just ignore them. As you pointed out, people aren't actually interested in the response, they want to distract from the ongoing genocide.