Deep Zionism
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Suppose a man has already murdered most of your family, including several of your children, for no other reason than that he believes your kind doesn’t deserve to exist on earth. The murderer…

It might as well be my own hand on the madman’s lever—and yet, while I grieve for all innocents, my soul is at peace, insofar as it’s ever been at peace about anything.

Psychopath.

  • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
    192·
    1 day ago

    You can pull a lever to divert the train and save your daughter. But there’s a catch, as there always is in these moral dilemmas: namely, the murderer has also tied his own five innocent children to the tracks, in such a way that, if you divert the train, then it will kill his children.

    Zionism, to define it in one sentence, is the proposition that, in the situation described, you have not merely a right but a moral obligation to pull the lever—and that you can do so with your middle finger raised high to the hateful mob.

    I deal with emails and social media posts day after day calling me a genocidal baby-killing monster.

    I mean this is all just textbook zionism. Zionists are openly genocidal and proud of it, and are aghast that anyone might oppose zionism.

    E: to be clear, zionist propaganda gets regurgitated by western media outlets to try and hide the genocide; this is a tactical measure as israel relies on international support to continue its genocide. Internally, israeli news outlets openly celebrate genocide.

    • blakestacey@awful.systemsMEnglish
      14·
      19 hours ago

      Scott here is provoking me to inchoate “fuck your trolley problems” rage.

      You know, if I were ever actually confronted with a situation where I had to choose one child’s life over another, the trauma would fuck me up for years. Anyone who says they could feel self-righteous in that circumstance is emotionally and morally diseased.

    • jaschop@awful.systemsEnglish
      14·
      1 day ago

      This works just as well to defend mass punishments of villages suspected of harboring partisans. Which makes sense, since that is pretty much what the Gaza war is about.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        15·
        1 day ago

        There is also the whole ‘nits make lice’ sort of stuff which was used to justify killing Native Americans (ow look, a group who also has not homeland to return to, which Scott, an American, forgot about). And basically any sort of genocide ever runs on this sort of ‘I have to kill their babies because they might kill mine’ shit logic.

        Even Robocop got that you should not shoot through hostages when the bad guy takes a hostage. (Cw: attempted sexual abuse: https://youtu.be/taWMwB1mLhc)