• germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Protest for or against whatever you think is important and not what others think is important.

    Also usually people can protest for or against more than one thing.

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      Even if they did accomplish a lot and the person is just talking about never reading it in headlines they look at every other week.

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    Kinda misses the point, no?

    The question needs an answer, even if the person asking also has their own questions to answer.

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      bad faith questions like this don’t deserve an answer, no

      “you like waffles? so why do i see you eating pancakes right now”

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        Okay, yeah. If it’s in bad faith I totally agree.

        Still, I do have to wonder why some genocides are more important to people than others. There’s a genuine question there too

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          thanks for understanding haha. and yes there is probably a context where someone could ask this question in good faith but that’s not the context of this post :)

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          For example what is it about Palestine that is driving the current set of protests that the last 5 years in Ethiopia lacked?

          In this case I would assume it’s the fact that many western nations are involved with Israel in some way.

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      Hypocrites shouldn’t be taken seriously. If someone professes X should be done and is choosing not to do it, they belie their own stance.

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        People put far too much emphasis on hypocrisy. Being a hypocrite has nothing to do with whether you are right or wrong.

        If a murderer says “murdering is wrong”, does him being a hypocrite make that statement any less true?

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      5 months ago

      how high do you have your contrast set lmao? i turned my brightness all the way up and i can barely identify any artifacts