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Michael Hobbes@michaelhobbes.bsky.social |
The people saying "try being gay in Gaza" as a retort to leftists calling for ceasefire don't seem to realize that it's a *more* principled position than their own. Even homophobes shouldn't be indiscriminately murdered!
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Ember Bite Aegle
@emberaegle.bsky.social
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Incapable of thinking of the world in any other way than ingroups and outgroups. Exactly one proposition, etcetera.
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mx. butlertron
@butlertron.bsky.social
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fucking pinkwashing.
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Pip The Badger!
@pipthebadger.bsky.social
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the people saying "try being gay in Gaza" aren't actually angry about queer people being killed, they're angry that they can't do it themselves.
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Kass G.
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The argument from the right makes no sense to people even slightly on the left because to the right, their enemies are inhuman monsters who deserve only suffering and they assume that the left thinks the same way. The right assumes this is a gotcha because to them, it would be.
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Space Junk Incorporated
@realspacejunk.bsky.social
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I'd call it self defeating instead of principled, but whatever.
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Natasha Theyes
@natashatheyes.bsky.social
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NoPrideInANYGenocide
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WeirwoodTreeHugger
@weirwoodtreehug.bsky.social
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Human rights are called that because they belong to anyone human. It's amazing how difficult this is for so many to grasp.
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Danyell Thillet
@personalgenius.bsky.social
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And assuming that there are no gay Palestinians is also incredibly ignorant on its on
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Eryn
@erync.bsky.social
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It’s amazing that so many people don’t understand principles, only transactions.
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🏳️🌈Pizza Wolf🏳️🌈
@pizzawolf.bsky.social
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If only there was someone in history for them to look to who loved the people who murdered him.
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Bruce, gay, computer programmer , old
@brucejmaxwell.bsky.social
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Mass killings of civilians, children and others who had no part to the slaughter of innocent people in Israel isn’t right. I totally agree that the ones who were responsible should be punished.
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ZZ Bottom
@jaypee.bsky.social
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How about "Try being gay in East Jerusalem or Flatbush or Boro Park"
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Uiɭɭiɑm 𐌼ɑc🐝᚛ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ
@uilliammac.bsky.social
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Being gay does depend on being alive which these people seem to feel is optional.
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Petr Skapa
@peta74.bsky.social
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And nor should their children, parents, neighbours, their neighbours' children...
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Josh King
@joshuamking.bsky.social
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Yeah maybe nobody should be indiscriminately murdered
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Mx. D.E. Anderson
@diannaeanderson.bsky.social
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also it's islamaphobia to use it as a retort because it assumes all the Muslims there are fundamentalists who take an extreme hardline on gay people.
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Little Gems
@lettucewrangler.bsky.social
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Also, there are gay people being killed by israeli bombs in Gaza. I read a post by a man talking about his partner being killed the previous day. He was killed that day.
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Assigned Media
@assigned.bsky.social
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Also, like, if we were gay/queer in Gaza at the moment by far the biggest threat to our lives would still be from the boming??? This is the point of opposing the killing of civilians- they're getting killed regardless of whether they're gay or hate gay people.
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Hare 🍉
@haredurer.bsky.social
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Being gay in Gaza means getting bombed with everyone else.
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Jenna Talia
@jennatalia.bsky.social
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"Try being gay in Gaza" Okay? I could try being gay in Israel too and they'd fucking stone me or something. The queerphobia can be challenged AFTER we make sure everybody isn't being murdered.
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Alice
@thealice.bsky.social
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Really telling on themselves about their views on the exercise of violence to achieve political ends
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jimothy
@jimothy63.bsky.social
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also - is the whole pinkwashing phenomenon not well known by now? it’s an old tactic at this point!
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President of Dopamine
@socialdopamine.bsky.social
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We fight for subjugated people. That's the principle, and it applies even to people we might not like us because of our identity.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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("all palestinians hate gay people" is a false and reductive view anyway but you can even put that aside and think this a shitty thing to say to queer Jewish people)
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Ankylodad
@ankylodad.bsky.social
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And children of homophobes no less
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Mutual A
@mutual-a.bsky.social
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its so fucking stupid
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Liner Notes Danny
@linernotesdanny.bsky.social
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“So you agree that gay Muslim refugees deserve the same rights as citizens of Israel and the US?”
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Kwertzy Industries
@kwertzy.bsky.social
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And Israel is *also* homophobic. So the point is stupid anyway.
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Andrew Sobey
@sobey.bsky.social
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also your apartment complex being bombed doesn't make it easier to be gay in Gaza
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@rudbeckiahirta.bsky.social
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Also the bombs don’t spare queer people!
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Kaleb E. Goldschmitt
@kgoldschmitt.bsky.social
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No joke! Did you ever come across the concept of “homonationalism” when you were in grad school?
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@fleezlow.bsky.social
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I'm begging the "try being gay in Gaza" to think about what happens when an bomb from an IDF plane hits the building the gay Gazan is living in
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mx elle is eepy
@ellearmageddon.bsky.social
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also, somehow i suspect the queer folks in gaza right now are more worried about bombs and the idf than basically anything else. just a hunch.
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A-A-Ron
@aroun.bsky.social
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A lot of the Zionist talking points boil down to “they deserve it.” Seems bad!
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Lisa Grossman
@astrolisa.bsky.social
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I hesitate to ask, but who is saying this?
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Joe D.
@shakewell.bsky.social
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It's also a thing that people who broadly support stripping LGBTQ+ people of their rights say, which is just extra ?????.
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