General Discussion

Because there are plenty of other places in the world where borders have changed, people shifted, and problems occurred. But only Israel ever got this continued hyperfocus the entire time. And don't read that as if I support all that they have done. There's a destructive psychology currently play in Israeli politics.

I'm just not going to pretend obvious things aren't obvious.

If the 20th Century showed us anything, it's that smart people, intellectual people can "nuance" their way into supporting dumb ideologies with dangerous consequences. The fact we still have Marxist-Leninists running around after Mao and Stalin took out 100 million people is amazing. "No no. I mean it different! My MLism is nuanced and better!"

It's trash. It was always trash. Trash that well-meaning people can get roped into, but trash nonetheless.

A lot of this stuff is the ideology of the privileged and the comfortable, to intellectualize barbarism as a noble struggle of the oppressed. People who can look at groups like Hamas and romanticize them as freedom fighters.

That shit is a luxury only Westerners can manage, because they know they will never have to live with the fallout if they ever actually got their way.

It doesn't matter. Social media is unleashing this all into the world again. Lessons forgotten will be relearned at great cost. So it goes. And 30, 40, 50 years from now, no one will have supported it. Same as it ever was.