Aug 17, 2026, 2:41 AMIf I were an obviously simple-minded individual, I think I would have started to dislike all the people who support Palestine on the Fediverse. — Thankfully, I am not so simple-minded.
But I cannot say I do not resent the fact that many of the people who support Palestine do come off as simple-minded. — Why?
When I say the scam group known as Gaza Verified is a scam group, the listening stops there. Because I can tell you, Joy herself posted a video of herself in Iran while claiming to be in Gaza — she clearly forgot her surroundings because the building-sized poster of the Supreme Leader of Iran was a clear giveaway. But most of the people who support the scam group Gaza Verified do not even know about the video, do not know anyone else has talked about it, and likely stopped reading in the first sentence of this paragraph and don't even know I just spoke about the video.
All they heard in their fragile little minds was that supposedly I am attacking Palestinians. They thought this the moment I said the scam group known as Gaza Verified. Nothing else registered past that point.
That is what makes the scam so damn successful. It is the same mindset that upsets people when I say I support the people of Israel and Palestine. Someone here likely did not get past the word Israel, and they have no idea I also support the people of Palestine. Their brains shut down, and they were triggered before even finishing the sentence.
It's the same mindset of hate and ignorance that makes being a humanist — someone who believes everyone should have peace, love, and happiness — so damn hard while on social media.
Because for some of you it is a zero-sum game, and your idea of peace is to wrongfully wipe out and oppress the others. It's that mindset that while you claim to dislike genocide, you mean to say you dislike it when it happens to the people you like and somehow are fine with it when it happens to another group of people. And so the idea of someone like myself saying, "I want everyone, both Israelis and Palestinians, to live well" is met not with dialogue, but with hostility and immediate rejection.
Yet, I refuse to let that closed-mindedness rob me of my empathy. True humanism means refusing to pick a side in a tragedy where innocent human lives are caught in the crossfire. If demanding safety, dignity, and a future for both sides makes me an enemy to the extremists on the internet, then so be it — because true peace cannot be built on selective compassion.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Peace #Humanist
But I cannot say I do not resent the fact that many of the people who support Palestine do come off as simple-minded. — Why?
When I say the scam group known as Gaza Verified is a scam group, the listening stops there. Because I can tell you, Joy herself posted a video of herself in Iran while claiming to be in Gaza — she clearly forgot her surroundings because the building-sized poster of the Supreme Leader of Iran was a clear giveaway. But most of the people who support the scam group Gaza Verified do not even know about the video, do not know anyone else has talked about it, and likely stopped reading in the first sentence of this paragraph and don't even know I just spoke about the video.
All they heard in their fragile little minds was that supposedly I am attacking Palestinians. They thought this the moment I said the scam group known as Gaza Verified. Nothing else registered past that point.
That is what makes the scam so damn successful. It is the same mindset that upsets people when I say I support the people of Israel and Palestine. Someone here likely did not get past the word Israel, and they have no idea I also support the people of Palestine. Their brains shut down, and they were triggered before even finishing the sentence.
It's the same mindset of hate and ignorance that makes being a humanist — someone who believes everyone should have peace, love, and happiness — so damn hard while on social media.
Because for some of you it is a zero-sum game, and your idea of peace is to wrongfully wipe out and oppress the others. It's that mindset that while you claim to dislike genocide, you mean to say you dislike it when it happens to the people you like and somehow are fine with it when it happens to another group of people. And so the idea of someone like myself saying, "I want everyone, both Israelis and Palestinians, to live well" is met not with dialogue, but with hostility and immediate rejection.
Yet, I refuse to let that closed-mindedness rob me of my empathy. True humanism means refusing to pick a side in a tragedy where innocent human lives are caught in the crossfire. If demanding safety, dignity, and a future for both sides makes me an enemy to the extremists on the internet, then so be it — because true peace cannot be built on selective compassion.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Peace #Humanist