Everyone has been polarised into an “Us vs Them” mindset. Keep us divided and channeling our collective rage at each other, lest we actually find power in our overwhelming numbers. It hurts.
I’m ready to get downvoted, but this is exactly the reason I’m incredibly sceptical about any conflicts going on, including wars. I just think the possibility of the “two sides” working together just to polarize society is too goddamn high. But of course, as soon as you bring a subject like this into a discussion, you immediately get bombarded with the “you are against my idea so you’re an extremist” kind of vocabulary… For example: “Omg you’re pro-russian” - meanwhile I volunteer to help Ukrainian people, but I guess I love Russia when I do that. Shit’s wild…
It’s domestic as well. Red vs Blue is just a distraction and you can’t point this out because nearly everyone is divided along those lines to the point of ignoring getting fucked up the ass.
Face and heel. You give the sensible ones a good guy to root for, and you give the angry ones a tough guy to idolize. Then you tell them to keep up the kayfabe at all times.
The solution? In a voting system that supports more than two parties, you ignore red and blue, and vote for red and black. In a voting system that doesn’t, you ignore red and blue, and pick up a gun for red and gold.
At least in the case of Israel vs Hamas, this is undeniably true. Everyone knows oppression creates terrorists. Every ambassador knows it, every police chief knows it, every general knows it, every politician knows it. Maybe the average person doesn’t but when it comes to the people running the machinery of government, they know it.
Israel 100%, without a doubt, knew that their apartheid would create an organisation like Hamas. And what do they gain? A plausible sounding cassus belli to blow up Palestinian children with bombs. Hamas is the creation, and essentially the ally, of Israel. They themselves don’t believe it, but it’s true. They’re playing someone else’s game.
You have identified a quantitative difference in that Palestinians are not oppressed in exactly the same way as black people in SA. But you’ve only disproven it’s apartheid if you can identify a qualitative difference. Do you have one of those?
