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[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yea I speak out against the leadership supporting Israel, what's your point. I see tons of Republicans supporting the genocide wholeheartedly and loving how much their leadership spews hate toward me and my people and my friends for just existing.

It isn't a leadership crisis, they know exactly who they have and WANT exactly who they have. I don't know how else I can try and help them understand in good faith when they constantly spit at us. Look at project 2025 as the most recent example, they deserve to be shamed if they still call themselves what they do after seeing that. There's only so much I can do and so much I can take from them. I'm probably gonna trigger you for saying this but we didn't talk Hitler down in good faith. We didn't break slavery with talks and communication, we didn't bring the lgbt community that I belong to into the mainstream and out of the closet by asking nicely and convincing people with words alone. Ghandi didn't liberate India because of his nonviolence, it was thanks to like minded but violent groups showing force that ghandis message was listened too. The black panthers had to go out and show force for mlks talks to matter.

The 'fear' I have isn't self created, it's one I've experienced for just existing from very specific people who support a very specific ideology.

[–] bastion@feddit.nl 0 points 2 months ago

Yeah.. It really doesn't matter where it came from. The fear and the hate get in the way, and cause recursion.

That's not to say violence isn't necessary sometimes. It is. But there mentality with which you approach it has massive effect.