What’s scariest is that the West has abandoned any pretense of caring about human rights or moving beyond its colonial mindset. We are told that genocide is fine, actually, and that those who commit it are our friends. We are told to just let go and become Nazis. It is in this moment that we must decide whether we are to embrace our humanity and resist this psychopathic vision for our species and take the first steps towards a future in which humanity explores its potential among the stars or whether we simply give up and exist as orcs for as long as our habitat allows before we finally manage to destroy it.
@aral We live in a world in which a person who says "I will always be a friend of [a state actively committing #Genocide]" is not only not arrested, not only not expelled from Parliament and from her political party, but is allowed to hold the second highest political office in a country which considers itself 'civilised'.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25510910.rachel-reeves-says-will-always-friend-israel/
I have no problem with this, BUT, friends don't usually let friends break the law, sometimes even your closest friend has to be told NO, sometimes you HAVE to stop friends doing stuff that is illegal, even if that results in their arrest, it may get them the help they need, if nothing else, for their own good.
A friend is not much of a friend if they stick by you while you commit serious offenses such as rape, murder.
Lets see if Rachael Reeves has the ability to actually understand this and put pressure on Netenyau to either seek peace or step aside so someone else in his country can take israel forward as a civilised nation or cement them in this part of history as complicit in Gencide (UN has used that word).
@zleap @simon_brooke I do have a problem with this: if you’re friends with a Nazi, you’re a Nazi.
@aral do
The point I was trying to make was if she is a 'friend' she needs to be putting pressure on Israel to start doing the 'right thing' and yes if you have a friend who is demonstrating far right attitudes you, as a friend can put pressure on them to rethink their ideas, and as a friend question / challange them, you would not be a good friend just sitting by and doing nothing.
Same as if a friend gets in a car drunk, would YOU let them drive off knowing they are not fit to drive?
There is a statement somewhere 'Friends don't let Friends use windows' using MS windows is kinda trivial compared to letting friends commit genocide and letting friends be Racist without challenge.
There is a point where you as a friend can just walk away and abandon them, but people don't really like doing that for numerous reasons.
