I am constantly reminded of something one of my friends pointed out "wealthy white people have more sympathy for dogs than poor people or people of another race".
this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2025
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They don’t love animals, they love property. Any living thing that they can’t own is worthless to them.
It’s this. I always was amazed that parents could ignore the suffering of children. I became a parent and felt that suffering even more acutely. But I’ve come to realize a great percentage of parents view their children as property.
Edit: So I guess this is somewhat of a contradiction that I don’t know how to explain. If liberal parents view their children as property, why wouldn’t they call out the abhorrence of Israel’s violence against them? Do they somehow perceive the relationship between oppressed parents and their oppressed children as different? Is there an instinct that tells them to reject the anguish of Gazan parents clutching their dismembered children? As if to tell them they will never feel this love for their own children, their own property?
They view their children as property. They don’t even view Palestinians as human. When they see the devastation inflicted on the children of Gaza, they don’t see their own children and feel a parent’s anguish (or a miser’s jealousy, which is all they can muster for their own kids). For the children of Gaza, they see a kicked anthill and feel disgust at all the pests they have to look at “in their nice, clean space”. They want them to go away, and they’re resentful for having to think about them at all.
Humans are complicated. The wealthy classes may view them as property, but humans are able to fight back, which makes them less "cute" and idealistic in the eyes of the bougies.
I think it applies to all wealthy people, not just wealthy white people.
Oh some NGO will probably evacuate the cat and leave the owner behind to starve to death.
Could you put on a CW for animal suffering please?
Probably should also be added for human child suffering and genocide in that case.
Yes but there's a picture of a starving animal in this and not a picture of a starving child
Yeah, I get that but people throw up CWs for words pretty often.
They've shown so much compassion towards the animals sharing their situation, too. It's so fucking heartbreaking, and enraging. And also an immense feeling of love for the people of Gaza. They are truly the best of humanity, even in the absolute worst most horrific scenario
this picture ruined my day.
i give what i can, which is not enough, to assist palestinians, but realizing that yeah, this is affecting the non-human population too, makes me hurt so much more
can this fucked up nightmare please end?
How inhuman do you have to be to consign an entire population to this level of suffering? Who can look at this and think it's acceptable or justified?
I pray for mercy for palestine, and wrath for israel. Unbelievable. Death to the iof. death to israel.