(Flawed) Anarchist ⚑ on Nostr: Here are two dominant aspects of shitlib morality with regards to Hamas. 1. Don't ...
Here are two dominant aspects of shitlib morality with regards to Hamas.
1. Don't praise a resistance struggle unless it's as clean as I am comfortable with (never happened in history, unlikely ever to happen). Better condemn it because there is blood (or) They din't just kill only "military" people.
2. Claiming both sides are gangsters, which is a farcical position to hold — even as an anarchist, as that erases the legitimacy question entirely & it ignores the circumstance under which one side is forced to resort to violence.
In my view, both are short-sighted views (history will judge me too as much as it judges who hold those other views — may be I will be proven wrong too, as it's Palestinians who are going to decide what they are going to honour & we will have 3rd party perspectives too). We only have to read histories of many societies in 3rd world beyond sanitised versions to know why those views are short sighted.
Oppressed are not looking for our approval on how they need to break their chains. They want them broken & are not looking for the certification from those who are not subjected to the same violence. We will only understand that when we are subjected to exactly that long enough, not pretending we can understand that from a distance.
If Palestinians gets rid of apartheid, genocide & settler colonialism — as part of a single political entity/seperate entity or as any other political formation, my guess is Oct 7th will be remembered as martyrs day (or) day of attempted rebellion (or) Intifada (or) something of that sort, atleast so far as I can see it based on what I know from struggles in history.
Clapping about history & revolutions after someone obtained liberation is not same as distancing oneself from the history while it happens. What I know for a fact is Oct 7th is a historical day for Palestinian liberation struggle, however later events turns out.
I know it's difficult to form ones morality distinct from dominant morality that claims to talk about so called peace while being most violent, but grey areas is the most substantive area to explore before we form our own morality. Black & white is too idiotic to even think about as things of consequence never fall on those edges — esp when it comes to difficult things like taking on power.
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1. Don't praise a resistance struggle unless it's as clean as I am comfortable with (never happened in history, unlikely ever to happen). Better condemn it because there is blood (or) They din't just kill only "military" people.
2. Claiming both sides are gangsters, which is a farcical position to hold — even as an anarchist, as that erases the legitimacy question entirely & it ignores the circumstance under which one side is forced to resort to violence.
In my view, both are short-sighted views (history will judge me too as much as it judges who hold those other views — may be I will be proven wrong too, as it's Palestinians who are going to decide what they are going to honour & we will have 3rd party perspectives too). We only have to read histories of many societies in 3rd world beyond sanitised versions to know why those views are short sighted.
Oppressed are not looking for our approval on how they need to break their chains. They want them broken & are not looking for the certification from those who are not subjected to the same violence. We will only understand that when we are subjected to exactly that long enough, not pretending we can understand that from a distance.
If Palestinians gets rid of apartheid, genocide & settler colonialism — as part of a single political entity/seperate entity or as any other political formation, my guess is Oct 7th will be remembered as martyrs day (or) day of attempted rebellion (or) Intifada (or) something of that sort, atleast so far as I can see it based on what I know from struggles in history.
Clapping about history & revolutions after someone obtained liberation is not same as distancing oneself from the history while it happens. What I know for a fact is Oct 7th is a historical day for Palestinian liberation struggle, however later events turns out.
I know it's difficult to form ones morality distinct from dominant morality that claims to talk about so called peace while being most violent, but grey areas is the most substantive area to explore before we form our own morality. Black & white is too idiotic to even think about as things of consequence never fall on those edges — esp when it comes to difficult things like taking on power.
[@palestine](https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine) [@israel](https://a.gup.pe/u/israel) #israel #palestine #gaza