[a military jet flies in the sky, with ISRAEL labeled on it]
[a bomb falls from the plane, with the word NUANCE labeled on it]
[a kid looks at the bomb coming at it, with the label PALESTINIAN KID above him]
https://thebad.website/comic/a_nuanced_take_on_the_israelpalestine_conflict
Some people really be seeing genocide images and saying “yeah this is why the left lost an election”, then complaining there’s not enough nuance in the Israel/Palestine discourse when their shit take is called out for being a shit take.
This one was made in reaction to Contrapoints’ take on the topic, but sadly, it’s not just her.
Do you still have the link to the Contrapoints video? I usually like her takes, so this sounds disappointing.
Not a video, it was this Reddit post by Contrapoints.
She doesn’t really seem to be saying there’s much nuance. What she is saying is she doesn’t know how to make an entertaining video with the mess, she doesn’t want to accidentally contribute to anti-semitism (by having it lumped in with anti-Zionism), and she feels like just screaming about it online doesn’t actually help Palestinians. You can argue about whether these points should really stop her from making a video, but it doesn’t mean she thinks Israel is justified from some angle.
My issue is “the real issue is people who are doing activism wrong (but I won’t do any activism on this topic myself)” and the whole bit about hurting zionist feelings.
Being a jew who lost a lot of his sense of community as zionism took over following oct. 7, I don’t like her take at all.