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Yanis Varoufakis: “As Bombs Are Raining Down on Gaza Again, It Is No Longer About Hamas or Netanyahu. It Is About OUR Humanity Being Tested

Loudly hating what they perceive as weak is what frightened weak people try to project as strength. Compassion is toughness, not this sad assed rageaholic display of parroted propaganda we're witnessing. It's hard to reason with an "us vs them" mentality when anyone attempting to inject some sense of nuance is a "them" by default. I don't think I know near everything about this situation either but at least I'm aware of my ignorance. I can try to educate myself instead of being angry & defensive about it.

I think the disagreement lies in deciding one side is entirely evil and the other side entirely perfect in order to justify wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians in a place you've never been and don't seem to know much about. Then casually reject the opinion of experts whenever it doesn't match your halfbaked opinion on the subject. Almost like a war movie is still too nuanced for you and you want to enjoy the vicarious surge of righteous anger in seeing someone not exactly like you getting bombed. You want to talk about evil? I don't think you do.