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What am I missing about the comments here? It’s a satirical cartoon, so it’s not meant to be taken as these labels are what the author would apply to each group.
I read it as highlighting the hypocrisy of how Ukraine fighting Russia is self defence but Palestine fighting Israel is seen as terrorism.
Is this a controversial take?
They didn’t see the “TV” in the pic lol
You’ve got it. Ukraine is a little less black and white than Israel Palestine, so you’ll see some comments that are anti Ukraine.
They’re both self-defense
That’s kinda the joke.
History is full of groups that were called terrorists before they were called governments. Whoever decides what is an act of war and what is an act of terrorism decides the rules of the game
Nelson Mandela was deemed a terrorist and British intelligence provided information to the apartheid regime to murder ANC activists in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.
the illustration is a bit of an oversimplification, but I think a redeemable takeaway is that the rhetoric changes depending on which side (western) capital is supporting.
Funny that someone felt the need to put flags on this
That’s only the most superficial level everyone should agree with on principle if they have eyes and ears.
Now let’s see who/what is backing these groups, lol.
Yet the reverse is somehow not double standards, simply because the Russian state has a historical connection to socialism.
Well, unlike Palestine, Ukraine is filled with Nazis and is drawing all its war time funding from other fascist white countries.
What double standards?
When someone uses a rifle to kill people who were on their way to the voting booth for independence and reattachment and in retaliation you bring in a tank, you’re doing self-defense.
When someone throws a rock at you because they’re being oppressed by you as you’re occupying their land and you bring in a tank, you’re doing terrorism.Nothing wrong with this picture.
Other than the other side needs text also.Goaded (by the US) ↔ Self-defense
Resistance (against oppression) ↔ (State) TerrorismThis comment section is embarrassing. Not a single person I know thinks this way.
Both Ukrainians and Palestinians are the less wealthy, victims of horrible historic invaders and abusers. Neither group is classified as terrorists.
This some dumb tanky shit trying to support Russia. Fucking yawn.
Historic abuse is when a country that lost many millions of people to the nazis…doesn’t tolerate ethnic cleansing by nazis?
I think the historic abuse here is your abuse of the word historic
You mean the people that originally allied with the nazis after purging millions of their own people? The same nation run by kleptocrats who bomb their own citizens under the guise of a terror attack? The same people who are literally trying to erase Ukrainians?
Yeah okay dude keep sucking the kleptocrats tits.
How come it takes so little prompting for you guys to turn into weird fascist freaks with zero history knowledge and a hardon for dead Russian people?
Neither group is classified as terrorists
???
How does this bullshit have upvotes?
Oh you don’t agree? Tell us more!
the opposite is pretty much true
Can’t disagree on that, that Ukrops are terrorist.
I mean, the funny thing is that the UON-B (The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists – Bandera faction) has unequivocally been operating as a stateless paramilitary seeking political reform through violence. Not unlike the Houthi Rebel movement or Hamas, after the IDF killed all their civilian bureaucrats and political functionaries.
But because the term carries “brown person acting badly” connotation, people reflectively reject the idea that a white person can earn the title.
People do seem to get upset when you remind them about all the Christian terrorists that set fire (or similar) to abortion clinics.
