cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45041279

Stolen from r/Marxism_Memes

Erm akshurally do you condmen hummus for killing settler colonialists ☝️🤓

Hummus is quite tasty, I commend it!

so long as it's not sabra

Umm cowbee, have you considered that by the oppressor's own laws, norms, or terms the violence is legitimate? Whereas the stinky oppressed are doing illegal bad violence or terrorism.

Nooooo you foiled me! I forgot that resistance to genocide is illegal... 🫠

/s

Legit I encounter this attitude heaps and have difficulty communicating the problem with it. Especially the often invisible but implicit violent threat that precedes any violent resistance and thus causes the violence.

It's really hard to explain why reasonable people resort to armed resistance and the associated atrocities without lighting up the parts of their brain that get them to go "Are you saying terrorism is good?" and shutting down.

Hard to explain without endorsing sometimes.

You start on the right card, survive long enough to end up on the left card, and get murdered by a right carder...it only ends when a "strongman" or dictator comes to power...is it the French Revolution?

Oh yea you're 100% correct. For some reason, people would rather pick arbitrary starting points for history, like October 7th, precisely to erase the near century of context and genocide behind why Al-Aqsa Flood happened in the first place. It's all rhetoric and not based in truth, but they use it to make themselves seem reasonable.

Personally, I believe overthrowing capitalists, fascists, and monarchs are a good thing. Colonial resistance movements like in Algeria, or settler-colonial resistance to genocide like in Palestine, come from the systems of colonialism and settler-colonialism themselves.