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A Palestinian man was found dead in a park in the Belgian city of Antwerp with his hands and feet tied, leaving the cause of his death a mystery amid authorities’ suggestion that it may have been a suicide.

“Suicide.”

  • SoJB@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    “There is no such thing as a ‘lesser evil’ when the result is genocide”

    “Yes there is”

    • a completely unironic liberal take I saw highly upvoted just today that this reminded me of.

    Eventually you are the evil, and that moment passed a long time ago.

    • fossilesque@mander.xyzOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

      Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

      https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Yes, we are all familiar with the Letter from Birmingham Jail. Congratulations on passing your high school history class.

        Now would you like to answer the nice person’s question? Would you prefer more or less genocide. Very simple.

        And no, I’m not a fucking moderate.

        • Schmoo@slrpnk.netEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Would you prefer more or less genocide.

          That this is the choice our “elected representatives” are asking us to make is sick beyond measure. I actually want to just thank you for cutting the bullshit and just asking the question directly so I can respond to it in the way any sane person should, by rejecting the premise that these are our only options. The answer is no, not more or less, none. I acknowledge that the third option of no genocide is not achievable through electoral means, which is why I support the protests, encampments, and uncommitted delegates.