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Was literally told today that Palestinians are violent because arabs are just violent and can't stop killing each other.

This is maddening.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The average Burgerlander's perception of the entire Middle East is an eerie desert camera filter and exotic scary music that'd be on a Call of Duty map.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

It's textbook orientalism. Its a western tradition stemming from before the US was even born.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Americans are well trained after Iraq and Afghanistan

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

because "arabs are just violent and can't stop killing each other"

the denizens of the eur*pean🤮 continent and their descendants have never stopped being violent animals who project their barbarity onto other peoples

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

european peninsula*

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Yes it's all the same tropes but wrapped in a protective false consciousness of what Judaism is. Seeing people around me easily return to voicing their racist bloodlust against brown people. They're too ignorant to even process what Arab or Muslim means, they don't really distinguish brown people.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Sounds like the liberal narrative

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I was told asking the question “what else where they supposed to do?” as posed by Finkelstein shows that my entire body of thought is rotten to the core.

It seems to be the new talking point “reevaluate your values”. Genocide is good sometimes when you’re really upset