jack [he/him, comrade/them]
I think simply making this tweet is a reason to be killed
The term “war” in my opinion places a kind of moral middle ground in which “both sides are bad and fighting each other”
Who has ever used it this way? That’s what I don’t get. The Vietnamese fought a war to oust colonial powers and secure their socialist revolution. The sides were not equivalent morally or militarily, but that’s never kept anyone from calling it a war. This position is such a weirdly rosy view of the word "war
More accurate words like genocide, invasion, ethnic cleansing, mass displacement and murder, etc. better portray the situation.
These are events happening within the war, and they are common features of war throughout history. I mean, invasion as contrary to war?
Saying “war between Hamas and Israel” is what western media uses to abuse bothsideism.
This I agree with because it misrepresents the nature of the war to support the colonial position. But the word “war” isn’t the issue - it’s the framing of the sides. The war is Israel vs Palestine. One side is right and one side is wrong. That’s how most wars are.
misguided to the point of calling the Palestinian genocide a war
I gotta be honest, I never get this rhetorical insistence. The Palestinians and the resistance are waging a war of liberation. Wars have never needed to be evenly fought or without horrific crimes - I’d say war is almost definitionally the opposite of that. Genocides only ever happen in direct connection with or as part of a war.
