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Perhaps you responded to the wrong person. Here's what my comment stated and asked:
Speech is being banned. Would you prefer speech supporting/denying genocide be banned? Or, speech protesting genocide be banned?
Violence is already happening. Would you prefer violence be used to support genocide? Or, violence be used against planes in protest of genocide?
Personally, I would prefer vandalism over genocide. Not a particularly tricky moral dilemma for me, weird question to have asked.
Noteably, nothing about Hamas. You saw that right? Tilt at some other windmills.
You're just creating false dichotomies left and right and straw-manning all over the place.
Nobody is supporting genocide, that's just you straw-manning the opposition because you don't want to discuss the complexities of the issue.
Violence is happening in a conflict you don't understand. You don't want to even talk about Hamas because it spoils your narrative. You can't to explain how creating violence in the west will result in the release of the hostages Hamas is holding. So you just avoid the subject. In fact your actions might encourage Hamas to hold out longer and that will prolong the suffering of Palestinians. Which is why I say you don't actually care about Palestinians.
You don't want to understand the conflict you claim to care about because you only care about a bullshit internet narrative. Hamas is still holding hostages and the war will continue regardless of what you do. So as much as you try to frame it as genocide vs. vandalism, we all know that's complete bullshit. The vandalism will not impact what happens in this war (regardless of how you want to term it) so it's just people doing vandalism and ruining their lives to impress people on social media.
Once again. Speech is being banned. Only one of which was protested against in the comment I replied to: not the potential 14 years in prison, the banning from a niche part of a niche website. Not a false dichotomy. Nor is the violence choice a false dichotomy, it's pointing out the ridiculousness of complaining about vandalism under the shadow of genocide.
You want to talk about straw Manning, ctrl+f my comment for Hamas please. If it comes back with zero result you should apologise.
The arrogance of this sentence. Genuinely, be ashamed of yourself and apologise.
Israel will continue the genocide no matter what I do, that's correct. But we, as a nation, don't need to support them... Hence the protests.
Edit: as you believe I don't want to understand, I'm linking my usage of the words "genocide" to people you might believe do.
You're talking about a war and you refuse to discuss one of the belligerents in that war. You refuse to even try to understand the conflict because actually looking into what Hamas has done and is currently doing means you have to think about reality and you prefer the sanitized propaganda over reality.
Methinks this is why you want my speech to be banned. You want the world to be a simplified good guys vs. bad guys narrative so you can vandalize something and feel like you're on the good guy side.
https://amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/palestine-hamas-targeting-protesters-gaza/ https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-says-two-its-us-aid-workers-injured-gaza-2025-07-05/
I understand it may be upsetting that your friends are cosplaying as the people that do these kinds of things, but that's the reality of it. Your protests aren't going to influence Hamas to release the hostages. Nothing you say and do will change the actions of Hamas, especially if you continue to look the other way about their actions. Israel is not going to leave their people prisoners of Hamas. So nothing you say or do will change anything about this scenario. Link whatever you want to the word genocide, your actions are irrelevant because the monstrous actions of Hamas (which you pretend to ignore) made you irrelevant. You want people to listen to you, but why should anyone listen to you when you're so disconnected from reality?
A non-violent resistance movement would successfully lead to a Palestinian state. Hamas fucks that up, these Palestine Action idiot also fuck that up too, but obviously on a much much smaller scale. You're hurting Palestinians because you treat them as pawns in your thirst for violence and destruction.
No, I'm talking about a genocide. "Your honour, we had to commit a genocide, the Allies had prisoners!" -some Nazi in Nuremberg, probably.
Correct, I won't engage in your "what aboutism" other than mocking it. I'm still waiting for your apologies. The links are different from each other, and the three above, perhaps you might think any of those responsible for writing those reports and articles want to understand the conflict.
Maybe you'll learn why a rational person with all the facts you have, maybe even more facts than you have, would call it a genocide. Call it a lesson in empathy: all the same facts, different conclusion, still rational.