There was one at my work and we had a good long conversation about how you're not really free in the US and in Cuba he felt far more free not trapped by rent and wage.

[–] QueerCommie@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

That’s true, but I don’t know how privileged they are (certainly more than Palestinians).

[–] Greenleaf@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

If this person had to the live the life of a Palestinian refugee in Lebanon or Syria, they would be in tears and having a breakdown within an hour.

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

the profound privilege to have a pruned off refugee agency that can get defunded, libeled, and bombed by the zionists with impunity while the west still pretends their funding the other agencies makes them morally superior

[–] SaniFlush@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

The host looks like he needs a wedgie

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Please go there as an experiment with no money and no return ticket to prove your point, Nazi looking ass

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Is he really doing the thinkface?

[–] Omniraptor@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Doesn't this sort of post go in the dunk tank?

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Okay, and? Maybe we should be treating people undergoing a genocide with a little added kindness. Fuckin bonehead

[+] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This feels like a very wrong and silly use of the word, privileged, given the context.

Like, why even entertain this type of ... conversation or argument or thought process?

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like, why even entertain this type of ... conversation or argument or thought process?

Because I don't think that Rohingya or Nuer people are worth 50,000x less than Palestinians?

[–] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can agree that there's more things going on that should be brought out to a broader audience, but doing it this way feels like throwing Palestinians under the bus to do it.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I said he was 50% right, where's the issue?

[–] D61@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it feels incredibly wrong to me to frame it as, one group of people being murdered is "privileged" over another group of people being murdered.

It'd be like saying, being SA'd by a family member is half as bad as being SA'd by a stranger because you're family member provides a house and a fridge full of food.

[–] sooper_dooper_roofer@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'd be like saying, being SA'd by a family member is half as bad as being SA'd by a stranger because you're family member provides a house and a fridge full of food.

It's more like saying a missing white girl is more privileged than a missing black girl bc her story gets picked up by the news

[–] D61@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

So... I typically think of the word "privilege" as meaning, "something given but not earned".

In a white society, the inherent racism makes it much more likely that a the white girl gets more attention than the black girl, I see that.

But the Palestinians, I'm pretty sure, aren't considered White by USA'ians. I can see why the media doesn't give as much time to the genocides in Africa from basic us-foreign-policy .

What privilege do they have, that their attackers are openly supported by the USA?