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The median age in gaza is 19.6
So almost half the population are children, and this includes a large number of Hamas fighters. They don't wait until they're adults to recruit. There are verified reports of them using kids down to age 12.
That’s a lot of mental gymnastics to justify killing thousands of children
They aren't killing children. They're killing Hamas militants /s
Oh, right, child soldiers are mental gymnastics.
When you dehumanize and demonize your opponent to the extent you are right now, you have lost the moral high ground.
There's no moral high ground, It's a multi-thousand year civil/religious war.
I have one simple question.
Let's say that Palestine is given statehood, with established fixed borders. Do you really think they'd stop attacking Israel at that point?
This is literally the same argument bigots have always made. Lemme ask you a question: if we let women vote do you really think they would make the right choices?
If we let black people use the same bathrooms as white people do you really think they’d behave?
If we let those refugees in do you really think they’ll contribute to society?
If we dismantle apartheid do you really think they can govern themselves?
If we free the slaves do you really think they can do anything but menial labor?
What I think is whenever someone asks me if I really think we should stop discriminating against a group of people because they’re not worthy of respect, dignity, and basic right to life, I think that person fucking sucks
What the fuck? No it isn't. You've got that shit backwards.
Women were making perfectly intelligent choices BEFORE they got the vote, they didn't need the vote to change the way they thought.
Black people behaved just fine BEFORE they got to use the same restrooms, segregation had nothing to do with behavior.
Refugees were contributing to their own society BEFORE they left their home country.
etc. etc. etc.
There is an entire army in Gaza actively attacking Israel, with quite high support from the population, funding from foreign governments, and illegally smuggled weapons.
Palestinians are not behaving like they want to get along. They need to do that BEFORE the attacks stop.
Again, same tired arguments. You are claiming the same thing bigots have claimed for time immemorial.
When women were fighting for the vote the argument made against them was that they would make poor choices. You arguing differently about women now doesn’t matter - you are making the same type of argument against Palestinians that were made against discriminated against groups at every turn.
White enslavers argued that black slave revolts justified continued enslavement, and this is precisely the argument you’re making.