#defender of the oppressed

[fierysword]

[The Book of Wisdom] praises Wisdom as a savior goddess, as the rescuer of Adam, Noah, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, Joseph, and the Israelites from Egypt. The myth of Sophia is reiterated in clear terms. Here is how she accompanied Adam into captivity: "She descended into the dungeon with him, and when he was in chains she did not leave him." Sophia comprehends the last atom of matter and accompanies it as surely as she becomes the guide of the lsraelites-the pillar of cloud by day and pillar of fire by night. "You provided your people with a blazing pillar as a guide for their uncharted journey, a benign sun to accompany them on their glorious pilgrimage."

Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom, Bride of God by Caitlin Matthews

#sophia #Caitlin matthews #savioress #fire #sun #defender of the oppressed #clouds

[a-town-called-hometown]

im ralseis number one defender i do not care if that boy killed people. in fact i hope he did

#i was forged in the fires of being an anthy stan. i think being oppressed by a narrative means that you can be as unpalatable as you like #idc idc ralsei can do whatever the hell he wants and i will still defend him. evil ralsei theorists have nothing on me #(guy who is aware that if ralsei does bad things those bad things would be in response to his circumstances)

[embryoed]

“Gale Hawthorne is a complex character” I say into the mic

The crowd boos, I slink off the stage in shame

“They’re right” says a voice from the audience

I turn, and there in the stands is Suzanne Collins herself

#save my angry oppressed son #he was a victim too he was never the villain he was just annoying sometimes #and by sometimes I mean anything relating to that stupid ass love triangle #ur telling me that if u were in his position u WOULDNT be pissed at the capitol?? #especially after they bombed district 12???? #his anger towards them was JUSTIFIED idc #he was too real #perhaps the realest #so what if he wanted his oppressors to suffer? go ahead king I support you 🙌‼️‼️ #the way that prim’s death wasn’t even his fault #‘b-but he helped make the bomb!!’ SO DID BEETEE AND NOBODY BLAMES HIM!!!! #(mostly bc they refuse to acknowledge his existence but anyways) #he was a victim of the system #product of war #literally HOW does he have more haters than Snow or Coin #ppl who hate on him excessively and refuse to see his character as anything past the love triangle make me wanna claw my eyes out #Gale Hawthorne number one defender #gale hawthorne #the hunger games #thg

[cadere-art]

Text from the image:

The Gichan are the product of a long history of conquest, fueled by their much coveted mountain passes and watersheds. The culture of the Kingdom of Gichan is highly syncretic. It owes its mores and traditions in varying parts to the underlying cultural substrate, to the Ghøwout Empire's centuries of rule, to the practices of their neighbors and to those of the new Gichan regime. To defend its precious lands, Gichan has a well-developped military with a strong core of professional soldiers, Gichan's regime is indissociable from its military: all noble families have a strong military background and it is customary for nobles of all rank to serve as officers for years or even decades.

Gichan was originally the name of a small nation in the mountains up the Cianji River, which became legendary for their unabating resistance in the face of the early Ghøwout Empire. When Ghøwout's northernmost province rebelled and seceded, it took on the name Gichan as a symbol of their resistance against imperial rule.

Gichan society is strongly divided between its military and peasant classes, but its peasants are far from powerless. Peasantry in Gichan is much revered : it is said to carry the nation on its strong back. as it works the fields and crafts the goods that feed and clothe the nation's soldiers. This romanticized potrayal often impedes serious understanding between local leaders and military lords, but fosters an attitude of gratitude towards the peasant's hard toil. In the harsh Gichan lands, a satisfied peasantry is seen as a priority.

Gican society is organized as chains of villages, each with their own village leaders, trading spouses and ressources up and down the mountains. They are ruled in a roughly feudal fashion, paying taxes in labour and goods to local military lords which themselves defer to higher lords up to the Gican royal court. Like in Ghøwout, religious specialists are excluded from this hierarchy: known as chui-chuøn (t. wild men), they are traditional healers and spiritual leaders often living in relative hermitage. In a set of practices long considered uncivilized by the Ghøwout, chui-chuøn wear numerous pelts and animal bones as a symbol of their otherworldly connections and hermitage. Uniquely, chui-chuøn do not wear tail brooches, as a way to signal that they are apart from society and clanship.

The Gichan use a modified Ghøwout script and many ghøwoutish loanwords, but most Gichan do not speak the Ghøwout tongue. They speak a variety of dialects, the most common of which is Tchougougch. Much of the peasantry is multilingual, having learned the language of a neighboring community within Gichan or of the many foreign traders using Gichan's mountain passes.

Gichan's territory has often been coveted and contested, much to the suffering of its locals. The revolution that broke Gichan apart from Ghøwout was strongly backed by the people, who felt Ghøwout had abandoned them in the face of the invading Senq Ha Empire. The Senq Ha had come from overseas and taken the Peninsular lands like a wildfire, and were now at their door, but Ghøwout, weakened by illnesses brought by the conquerors and internal strife, failed to mount a defense for Gichan in time, allowing much of it to be conquered. After this betrayal, the people of the passes, under the rule of two different empires, united and rebelled under the legendary name Gichan. They became the first province to secede from Ghøwout, initiating the Empire's long decline, and one of the first major setbacks of the Senq Ha in their invasion of Uanlikri.

#peoples of uanlikri #art by me #worldbuilding #antiole world #antiole fashion #gichan #gican #mountainfolk #Gichan is exciting! it's also the first nation / ethnicity that people in my story are actually likely to meet. Everyone knows about Ghøwou #bc Ghøwout is huge like. russia or china. but Ghøwout is oppressive insular and far away and its unlikely to meet one north of the mountain #Gichan move around more owing to all the trade routes they're defending

[spn-renaissance]

i don’t think we will ever comprehend the damage the supernatural cast did to parasocial relationships. like its worse than youtubers. half the fucking time THEY were the show.

#they had 12 year old girls defending them to the ends of the fucking earth because we felt like we KNEW them. #jensen ackles isn’t secretly bisexual and oppressed beloved that’s just the jensen ackles that lives in your head #supernatural #misha collins #jensen ackles #i’m not tagging j*red because i don’t like his stans lol

[foursaints]

saints i was thinking about ludora as not just a blond/blonde ship but both of them also having super long, silky hair too and then i was giggling over how lucius would have like a one hundred step haircare routine, he’s brushing it every night before bed and then again in the morning, he carries a comb at all times just in case etc etc and then pandora like maybe, and that’s a big maybe, brushes her hair once a week? if she remembers? doesn’t use any fancy product except like regular shampoo & conditioner and the like and yet her hair is always still so soft and ethereal looking and lu is so so offended…. anyway i’ve been obsessing over lucius a little recently and ur posts about them have not been helping at all i love them

KARA WERE YOU THE ONE WHO CALLED HIM A PATHETIC CUNT-SERVING WORM?? i cannot stop thinking about that... scream.

you get it! there is something so hilarious about lucius being obsessed with Appearance and Pureblood Propriety and Tailors and 60-Galleon Hair Oil and Having A Massive Stick Up His Ass At All Times and then (maybe because of this) falling HARD for this dirty, half-haunted unearthly porcelain doll of a girl that looks like something left behind at the flea market. she's humming lullabies under her breath, picking twigs from the bird's-nest tangle of her hair, and he's watching this thinking... Oh. I'm in fucking trouble

#a #ludora #<- MY FUCKKCING SILLIES RAAAAAGHH #soft and ethereal... i think he's wrapping a strand of her wispy hair around his pointer finger to marvel at it #hen wrapping a whole sheet of it around his wrist. to tug #“ow” she is saying and swatting at his head #lucius truthers & defenders are such an oppressed minority but THATS MY LITTLE CUNTY WOOORM PLEEAAASE #he's literally so funny. I can't believe he's real. draco had to get that limp wrist somewhere!!!!!!!! #Affronted Heterosexual Man Cunty Limp Wrist Lucius is so real. to me. he's like the bitchy old drag queen feeding pigeons in Central Park #and he's a death eater? he's like fucking astarion from baldurs gate

[duncanor]

If you think Knives was right, you are wrong.

There's literally nothing just or fair or useful in what he does. If you think his plan is truly to save the Plants you did not get him.

He hurts plants just as bad as humans. If anything, I think he's worst than them. Because humans needs them and don't understand them, that's why they do it.

Knives uses them for his own benefits, fuses with them, disregards their opinions. He understands them and doesn't need them but he still hurts them. He's literally the sole reason humans even have to treat them this way, to overwork them to the bone on NML.

It was never about saving the butterfly, it was always about killing the spider out of fear. Even if that means crushing the butterfly who gets in the way.

#trigun #trimax #Million Knives #Tristamp #Listen I love Knives but y'all need to stop saying this mass murderer who hurt both humans and his kind is right #Knives is not a Magneto y'all 😭 #That's like saying Legato isn't at fault of his actions because of Knives influence #Like he was his slave or something #Nah #That motherfucker knew what he was doing #Knives character isn't about vindication it isn't about revenge it isn't about justice nor fairness #It isn't about defending the oppressed #It's about protecting HIMSELF at all cost

[craycraybluejay]

#meme #lateral aggression #lateral transphobia #tw baeddels #baeddelism #misgendering #transphobes #transmisogyny #transmisandry #transandrophobia #its the same thing as terfs calling trans women defending themselves from getting misgendered misogynistic for it and you know it #its the same thing as a gay man telling a cishet to back the fuck off when theyre yelling faggot at him #its just that you guys think its fine as long as it happens to trans men #and transmascs and nonbinary people #agab #degendering #harass deny and claim righteousness bc ur 'more oppressed' so its ok to be a transphobic pos #political memes #bullying #online harassment #tw transphobia mention #tw misgendering mention #rules for me but not for thee #if you make a transfem dysphoric even by accident ur evil and deserve to die #if you make a transmasc dysphoric its ok and actually encouraged #double standards #exorsexism #baeddels asking men/male presenting people whats in their pants so they know if they can bully them and get away w it #poorly edited memes for your dash #gender

[fierysword]

Source: Swallow's Nest: A Feminine Reading of the Psalms

1 Why this raging of the nations and vain plotting by their people? 2 Their rulers defy God's will, and the leaders conspire together against Shaddai and Her beloved, saying, 3 "Let us disregard God's commands, and break Her bonds of justice." 4 She who lives in heaven laughs and derides their proud plots. 5 Her Word resounds against them in righteous anger, and Her fury at their injustice frightens them. 6 "I have chosen my own to rule," She says. "I will set them in places of power." 7 The decree of God is this: We are Her children, to whom She has given birth. 8 She promises that the nations will belong to us, and that the earth shall be ours to its farthest reaches. 9 In Her might we shall break the oppressive strength of the powerful; it will be dashed in pieces like a clay pot. 10 Therefore, O rulers, be wise and be warned! O leaders of the earth, 11 serve God with reverence. With trembling humility 12 kiss Her feet and bow to Her just demands, lest She be angry with you and you perish in your pride. For Her wrath is an instrument of justice. Blessed are all who take refuge in the strength of Shaddai!

Possible uses of this psalm according to Power of the Psalms by Anna Riva:

Render an enemy incapable of power over you

Relieve tension (anoint temples and forehead with healing oil and then repeat the last sentence of the psalm over and over)

#psalm 2 #swallows nest #feminine psalms #bible verses #psalms #judge of the wicked #the destroyer #wrath of God #defender of the oppressed #prayers for justice

[fellthemarvelous]

I want to talk about Obi-Wan and Maul

This might end up being kind of long so bear with me, and my thoughts are kind of all over the place and possibly slightly incoherent.

Maul and Obi-Wan had a rivalry that was insanely brutal. (More under the cut.)

Maul survived being cut in half by Obi-Wan and ended up going insane, no longer connected to reality and living in the sewers for many years. Once Savage took him back to Dathomir and the Nightsisters "fixed" him, he found clarity again and became wholly fixated on Obi-Wan, the only person he had any connection to from his past. He hated all Jedi, but there was no one he hated more than Kenobi.

Obi-Wan, for his part, was horrified to learn that Maul had survived considering Obi-Wan had cut him in half.

Their rivalry is probably one of my favorites in all of Star Wars.

Maul was bloodthirsty, vengeful, and full of rage.

Obi-Wan was the opposite. He was kind, compassionate, took no pleasure from killing others, and loved unconditionally.

And one thing Obi-Wan eventually came to understand about Maul was that Maul had not had a good life. He recognized that Maul was raised to be the person he was because of the cruelty of Darth Sidious.

The Nightsisters handed baby Maul over to Darth Sidious to be trained in the ways of the Sith. Darth Sidious, who is famously cruel and diabolical. Darth Sidious, who raised Maul to be expendable because Maul was just a means to an end for Sidious.

Maul who never grew up experiencing love. He never experienced kindness or compassion. He was raised to be an assassin, a cold-blooded killer, doing anything and everything Sidious asked of him.

And he eventually understood that he had been nothing more than a tool for Sidious.

So he was angry. Alone. Full of hate. And wanted revenge.

And his anger at Obi-Wan was more than just him losing his legs. Obi-Wan caused him to lose the only life he knew. He had no guidance once Sidious was finished with him.

The only life he knew was one of cruelty. He'd never bonded with anyone until he met Savage.

And when Sidious killed Savage, Maul was alone again. (Ironically, Sidious killed Savage the same way Maul had killed Satine like five minutes prior.)

He had no one on his side again.

He tried to connect with Ahsoka, and then with Ezra years later.

But still, more than anything, he wanted to break Obi-Wan the same way that he himself was broken. He wanted to see Obi-Wan lose control and become like him. He was almost successful when he forced Obi-Wan to watch him kill Satine.

But Obi-Wan proved to be unbreakable even in that moment, and Maul's obsession only became stronger, along with his rage.

Maul was unable to comprehend love, and it drove him crazy that Obi-Wan had actually tried to connect with him in the moments leading up to Satine's death. Obi-Wan had tried to show Maul compassion and it infuriated Maul. He hated that Obi-Wan was trying to be kind to him.

Maul was a monster in every way, but he was also a victim raised under the cruelty of Darth Sidious and only knew how to be what Sidious had molded him into.

And on the other side we have Obi-Wan Kenobi. Despite his sass and sharp wit, he is kind and loving. He loved being a Jedi and devoted his life to living by the Jedi code. And he may not have always gotten it right, but he never strayed from the core principles.

(And always be as dramatic as possible.)

I've seen some bizarre criticisms of Obi-Wan that have me scratching my head. His attachment to Anakin, for one, like there isn't a rich and complicated history behind their relationship in the first place.

He's criticized for not killing Anakin so clearly Vader's reign of terror is somehow Obi-Wan's fault.

Let's examine all of this a bit closer.

We often joke about the fact that Obi-Wan has a vast collection of dismembered body parts, but Obi-Wan does not like killing others. He kills when he has no other option.

He prefers to disarm his opponents, quite literally. He cut off Zam Wessell's hand instead of killing her even though she was about to kill him. He just wanted answers. She had no real way of fighting back because he had injured her.

He disarmed the man who was threatening Luke in the cantina in A New Hope. He didn't kill him though. It's not like he was a major threat.

And on Mustafar, he couldn't bring himself to kill Anakin. He cut off one of Anakin's arms and both of his legs, an action that tore him apart because he loved Anakin so much. Anakin was defenseless at that point, and he was also completely on fire thanks to the lava. No part of him imagined that Anakin could have survived being burned alive, and he spent the next ten years hating himself for leaving Anakin to die until he learned that Anakin not only survived but was incredibly angry with him and wanted to kill him.

Just like Maul.

Obi-Wan did not like the idea of killing. At all.

And perhaps it was his attachment to Anakin Skywalker that brought the galaxy to its knees, but that attachment was because he and Anakin had always had a confusing relationship.

Let's take into consideration the fact that Obi-Wan, at the end of The Phantom Menace and only 25-years-old, had just watched his Master die at the hands of Darth Maul, subsequently killed Darth Maul (but not as much as he thought he had), been given the title of Jedi Knight, and taken on nine-year-old Anakin Skywalker (almost immediately after being knighted), a boy who had just been freed from slavery and had to leave his mother behind to pursue a life as a Jedi because being a Jedi had always been his dream.

Then maybe take into account the fact that Obi-Wan Kenobi was grieving the loss of Qui-Gon while Anakin struggled with being away from Shmi for the first time in his life. Obi-Wan didn't just train Anakin in the ways of the Jedi, he raised Anakin. He treated Anakin like a brother while Anakin said Obi-Wan was the closest thing he ever had to a father. Obi-Wan has always been good with children, and it's only natural that he would take on a parental type of role despite the fact he was only 16 years older than Anakin. He loved Anakin the way a brother would, and it did blind him to some of Anakin's more concerning habits, but Anakin also kept his biggest sins a secret because he was ashamed of himself, and he never wanted to know what it felt like to have Obi-Wan be disappointed in him.

Their relationship was messy because they were attached to each other, but Obi-Wan still did his best to teach Anakin. It had been Qui-Gon's final wish for him to train the boy, and Obi-Wan trusted his master.

So it was his attachment to Anakin that prevented him from killing Anakin aka Darth Vader, but it was very in character for him to choose not to do so. He always believed there were other ways to fight back.

And in the end, not killing Anakin had been the right choice. Anakin is the one who defeated Sidious (at the cost of his own life too) in an act of love for his son Luke and returned balance to the Force.

Obi-Wan didn't want to kill Maul either, but Maul gave him no choice. Maul was now a threat to Luke.

Maul lived a tormented, lonely life because he was never able to come to terms with the pain and anguish he'd experienced as a child that turned him into the monster he was throughout the rest of his life.

Obi-Wan (Ben) was able to rise above the suffering he'd endured and made peace with what had happened during and after the Clone Wars. He was so very much connected to the Force by this point because he had finally been able to let go of the tragedies of his past.

When he defeated Maul, he didn't treat it as a victory. He cradled Maul in his arms the same way he had held Qui-Gon and Satine when they died by Maul's hand.

He offered compassion to Maul despite Maul's atrocities, and in doing so, allowed Maul to experience peace for the first time in his long life.

In his final moments, he was treated with the dignity he had never given any of his victims.

And I think, in the end, Maul finally understood what he had been deprived of his entire life.

Obi-Wan was a true Jedi. He might have made a few errors along his journey, like everyone else does. He proved he was a master not by his skills with a lightsaber but by his ability to show compassion to those who don't necessarily deserve it because they are the ones who usually need it the most.

Star Wars Rebels gave us such beautiful closure to a rivalry that spanned decades.

#obi-wan kenobi #darth maul #star wars #obi-wan and maul rivalry #star wars rebels #star wars the phantom menace #star wars the clone wars #savage oppress #qui-gon ginn #satine kryze #jedi vs sith #cruelty vs compassion #do not take this to mean that i am absolving maul of the horrible things he did #i'm pointing out that his upbringing by a cold-hearted piece of shit turned him into the monster he became #and as terrible as maul was he never had a chance to be anything better than what he was #and also i will defend obi-wan kenobi till the day i die #because he is a perfect example of what it means to be a jedi #obi-wan kenobi slander is not accepted here

[rotzaprachim]

you’re thinking about how easily massive numbers of the wildly antisemitic tankies would have been pulled into the actual political tenets of (esp early to mid 20th century) armed Zionism and you’re laughing?????

#This folks is why analysis of ideology and the structures of an ideology is important #Rather than just random ass ethnic signposting #A lot of people see Zionism as something suspicious and jewy that had to do with Jews - I don’t like them #But the reality of Zionism as an initially distinctly leftist branch of political ideology that sought to liberate an oppressed people #With that tiny niggly wiggly issue of the fact people might #Already have lived on that land???? Ohhhh boy #All these cottage core back to the land the world would be better if I could reject modernity and return to the ancient ways of Farming #Society is broken it cannot be fixed the only option is to found a New Tough society that will fix all our previous problems #And we’ll get round to it in heavily armed leftist commune farming settlements #Which we will defend with violence because any violence in the name of an oppressed people is justified and our legitimacy comes from the #Rifle!!! #The only reason you see this ideology as inherently removed and bizarre is antisemitism and the only reason you see yourself removed from i #Also antisemitism!!! #You would have done numbers in ahdut ha-avoda you would have called Ben gurion abbaleh/ #Remember: a bunch of the people who got sucked into this of ideology weren’t the *rich Republican aipac Jews*!*’ your head #They were broke often very secular Jewish leftists working dead end gig economy jobs in farms and sweatshops for whom the idea of a Brave #New World with a. Brave new culture was very appealing and liberating #It offered something new to the broken. #It’s important to talk about this stuff to talk about how it can be undone #But also. The world is not divided into the Oppressed and the Unoppressed #Your political ideology does not stop you from hurting others #No political ideology even anti capitalism or leftism is innately pure- all can harm others #No ethnic and cultural identity no matter how oppressed is free from the potential to subjugate others #No identity or ideology is greater than the right of other people to live freely #Cycles of oppression and the pyramid structure of many empires result in oppressed people harming other oppressed people #Many many goyim think that they’re removed from the logic of Zionism because they aren’t Jews because it’s something wierd and jewy #But I see a lot of the most destructive logics parroted by leftists every day

[aronarchy]

I don’t believe in “international law.”

“Abolish the courts” applies to both “domestic” courts as well as foreign/global legal bodies. I’m not sure how any reasonable and compassionate person can look at, for example, some panel of privileged adults judging a child or teenager on whether they should be locked up for killing their abusive parent, that they have the power to do so, that the survivor’s revictimization or freedom depends on the feelings of these remote privileged adults and not feel that this entire system and this entire notion of “judging” is a sham, is inherently a risk to the autonomy of the vulnerable and oppressed. How arrogant is the presumption that some outsider, merely because they have power and respectability and legitimacy, can have the full picture of the interiority of an oppressed person who’s been through and/or going through hell, who should be the foremost expert on their own situation and the epistemic authority regarding themself, as if their experience of “abuse” or “oppression” cannot be considered “real” until some outsider validates it first?

And likewise I found it deeply depressing and cruel that the Palestinians or their allies have to go to a court in an entirely different country to argue and plead for Palestinians’ basic rights and persuade a group of privileged people to acknowledge them, hinging their prospects on which ruling they would decide on, when they should not have to do that in the first place, and they should have autonomy and not be beholden to the potentially negative, oppressive judgment of some outsiders in the first place! That is a travesty.

I don’t say this to imply that the efforts of lawyers defending the oppressed in front of a court are easy, unimportant, irrelevant, entirely unimpactful, or callous, or that there is no context where invoking the language of “illegal under international law” or “war crimes” is useful or helpful in discussions or raising awareness; they are working within an unjust system trying to give the victims the best chances they can have in it, and preventing things from being even worse. Likewise, I respect lawyers who defend child abuse victims or adult domestic abuse victims or sexual violence victims etc. But we should interpret such situations with a basic understanding that that is not all activism can offer, nor should trying to game the system more in our favor be the ultimate end goal.

I also don’t say this to imply that international law/the UN and individual nation-state law/state governments are identical. There’s a key difference in that the former lacks the same kind of enforcement power the latter has, and is not set by a single cohesive entity with unilateral interests and power to wield. But the other similarities are there. (“International law” derives its own legitimacy from the consent of nation-states which sign on to it, which in turn derive their own legitimacy in doing so from the purported consent of their governed, which is necessarily invalid.)

#OP #legalism #anarchism #youthlib #feminism #decolonization #liberation #leftists atm don’t seen to be critiquing judges/prosecutors of victims/defendants of oppressors etc. #to the same degree they critique abusers/rapists/bosses/landlords/politicians/wealthy people as inhabiting and weaponizing #institutionally privileged oppressive corrupting positions necessarily involving injustice in the execution of their roles

[gay-otlc]

Me: The queer community should be nicer to straight trans men

Assholes in my notes: Why are we trying to defend straight men >:(

Well you see, you dumb fuck, it is because the anti-straight-men rhetoric in queer spaces has actively led to me facing a lot of transphobia, and I think defending trans people is a good thing. If you disagree with that I think that's a You Problem (the problem is that you are transphobic)

#they blocked me so it is vaguepost time! #transhet #i'm so tired of 'lmao stop acting like [privileged group] is oppressed/stop trying to defend them' #because yeah we SHOULD defend them #marginalized members of that group deserve to be defended #especially since the attempts to 'punch up' against that group usually just end up hitting its marginalized members #which is bad. if you don't think that's bad then go fuck yourself ig

[neechees]

Everything I see that happens to Palestinians literally happened & is happening to Native Americans like its insane

#our oppression mirrors each other #theres differences of course bc our histories of colonization & race & religion are different #but thats what makes the similarities so chilling #Israel controlling Palestine's water supply & making escape or defending yourself nigh impossible #& removing all the Native plants like the Olive trees & replacing them with invasive plants #or the extinction of the Palestinian crocodile vs the Plains Bison #how settlers will defend their colonization & how ive seen a settler say that Israel 'uses the land properly' #everything I've seen settlers say defending Israel is the exact same thing I've seen settler Canadians & Americans say

[showinalittlelife]

hate to be political on here but wtf is wrong w ppl???How can you be horrified by what’s happening to Israelis right now but still be against palestine? What’s happening right now is literally just an everyday reality for palestinians?

#palestinians aren’t fighting back because it’s fun #they’re fighting back so they can live and be treated as normal fucking humans #if u support Israel u literally support the oppression of my people #so let’s be real I have no sympathy for u #it’s sad that innocent ppl r getting hurt but that’s literally reality? #obviously there’s gonna be violence??? #’israel has a right to defend itself’ but when palestinians do something against the years of oppression theyre terrorists #go fuck yourself if u in any way support israel #I would literally be hatecrimed in palestine I have family members who have never set foot in their homeland #so some privileged fucks on the internet can call my people fighting back terrorists #will 5ever be a zionism hater #if youre not with us you’re against us #palestine