Was reading a university sub-
and I saw the same two hypocrisy gotcha responses from chuds.
1 ) These protesters should go live in Gaza since they keep complaining. I don’t see the logic here? The protesters don’t like the place getting bombed so they should go to that place and experience the bombing themselves? If anything shouldn’t it be the opposite? That people who think current treatment of Gazans is justified should go experience Gaza for themselves to walk a mile in their shoes? Now that I think about it, maybe the logic behind the gotcha is that alternative left-wing types would not be accepted in a socially conservative muslim country? Even if that were true, still doesn’t mean kids from there should get bombed.
2 ) The protesters are against the walls and checkpoints encircling Gaza from, yet the protesters have barricaded their encampment with a plastic sheath so they can control who comes in and out. So are the chuds here saying they’re against all barricades including the Gaza one? Or are they saying they agree all barricades are bad? Or just hypocrisy in and of itself is bad? Denouncing the wall is fine, as long you stay consistent and also don’t use a plastic barricade yourself? How are these things even being equated in the first place? Oh you’re against the Berlin Wall yet your apartment complex has a fence behind the dumpsters. You’re a hypocrite which is the real crime here.
Anyway I know I’m preaching to the choir. How do you all deal with braindead smug gotchas? I guess it’s time to touch grass?
I’m slowly realizing that libs/chuds are mostly reinforcing their own beliefs when they talk. They’re trying to convince themselves. The accusations of hypocrisy are to discount any outside opinion as valid so they no longer consider it. They’re not coming from some rational, principled set of values. They already have a position that Palestinians either deserve to die or don’t matter, then everything else they say flows from that.
I don’t think there’s much you can do with these types of people. I’m also tired of them. Just tell them to go fuck themselves. The message is simple enough. “Genocide shouldn’t happen” is such a clean, simple message. If they’re still spinning themselves into knots arguing against “genocide shouldn’t happen” then tell them to go fuck themselves. There’s nothing left to say to them.