• hoch@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Yeah, I’ve seen a ton of flat-out support for Iran and Hamas on here, and it just hurts my head. Particularly when it comes from members of the LGBTQ communities.

    Like… do they not realize what these people would do to them if they had the chance?

    • AES_Enjoyer@reddthat.com
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      Particularly when it comes from members of the LGBTQ communities

      So, you, the (likely white and straight) saviour has to tell the gays what to do and who to support?

      Israel, by shielding all its genocide in fake rainbow flags and under the guise of “western values”, does SO MUCH damage to LGBT communities all over the middle East. When you’re seeing “the self-proclaimed gay-friendly Jews” steal your land and attempt to murder your entire people, don’t you think there might be reasons why the oppressed end up having negative feelings about gays and Jews? Obviously LGBT-phobia is bad, but it is literally the west who forced this.

      In the particular case of Iran, in the mid-20th century, the country democratically elected Mosaddegh, a secular and progressive leader who believed in feminism and who was in a coalition with broad leftists. What did the west do? Economic blockade to Iran because it wanted to nationalise IRANIAN oil fields that belonged primarily to BP, and staged a coup against him.

      It’s literally the fault of the west that Iran didn’t develop as a better-functioning progressive, secular democracy.

    • Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Do you not realize what Israel would do to you if you went to Gaza and tried to protect Palestinians?

      The brainrot here in these comments is the blatant disregard for genocide of Palestinians by Israel.

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      Why are we dumbing down the situation here? Life isn’t about single issues.

      Maybe we’ve seen different posts, but don’t conflate the need to stop Israel’s mad crusade with supporting Iran’s regime.

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        The OP is literally talking about cheering Iran. So it is definitely about single issues for a lot of people.