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  • vegeta1 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    18 days ago

    Around the internet it is interesting how a lot of Americans celebrating the shooting of that healthcare CEO knowing the harm he caused think Palestinians shouldn’t have fought back… In fact how many get giddy at the prospect of the genocide. Interesting indeed

    • The prevailing populist narrative grants the People (of the West) moral innocence by attributing to them utter stupidity and naivety; I invert the equation and demand a Marxist narrative instead: Westerners are willingly complicit in crimes because they instinctively and correctly understand that they {for a long time}, benefit as a class (as a global bourgeois proletariat) from the exploitation enabled by their military and their propaganda — organs of coercion and consent. [6] We’re not as stupid as we’re made out to be. This means that we can be reasoned with, that there is a way out.

      Especially if they’re settlers of a feather owl-wink