• @nonailsleft
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    -71 month ago

    I can’t speak for the universities, but by many standards the involvement of the US military was a lot larger.

    Asides from supplying weapons and intelligence, they were participating in the naval blockade and flying air tankers to help the genocide. 380k dead, that’s 10 times as much as what’s reported from Gaza.

    And sure, it was bad, but I think the above poster as well as myself want to make the point that it’s quite arbitrary to take such risks to protest this conflict in particular. I assume most of the protestors have been Kony’d into thinking that this conflict is somehow very special and worth risking their future for.

    That said, I think they should be free to do so peacefully and the fucks who are doxxing them should swing

      • @nonailsleft
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        -21 month ago

        Of course not

        In Yemen they were practically throwing the bombs themselves

          • @nonailsleft
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            -31 month ago

            So your position is that they didn’t protest Yemen because it was worse?

            • @OccamsTeapot@lemmy.world
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              41 month ago

              No? That makes no sense.

              It’s that the US is Israel’s main supporter, overall, in a way they are not to Saudi Arabia. Should people have protested about Yemen? Yes! Is it weird that Israel has more attention in the US? No

    • @fuckingkangaroos
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      31 month ago

      quite arbitrary

      Fueled by propaganda using this as a wedge issue to get Trump elected.