Comment by llimos
1 year ago
No, I'm not saying you should let it do whatever it wants. I'm saying you shouldn't have a double standard where only Israel's victims get you exercised and not those of China[1], Russia[2], Syria[3], Sudan[4], Pakistan[5], Turkey[6], Yemen[7] and more.
This isn't whataboutism. This is asking about a double standard. The world failed to get anywhere near as excited about the other cases. If that applies to you as well, I'd love to hear an explanation why that doesn't include the J-word.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Sudan_(2023%E2%80%93pre...
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_undocumented_Af...
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_in_Turkey_(2016%E2%80%9...
[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_civil_war_(2014%E2%80%9...
I agree with you. Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians should stop and the mistreatment those countries do should also stop and I don’t think we should let any of those countries do want they want with the excuse that some other country is also doing a similar bad thing.
I also think that when criticizing China we don’t need to bring up criticism of Israel in some kind of “equal criticism” principle to avoid offending China or visa vera.
Genuinely asking you. Why do you think only one of these conflicts triggers protests around the world? The first protests even before Israel fired a single shot?