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Originally Posted by Kagatob
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Bit of a stretch there, there are still Holocaust survivors alive to this day. Sure "separate but equal" was pretty fucking shitty (understatement) but it wasn't the Holocaust, though I expect you to somehow translate that into me being racist again. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] |
That's called a false equivalency what you did there. To say, "The worst thing that happened to these people isn't as bad as this event that happened to these other people!" is ridiculous. Your girlfriend's point from the beginning was dumb, to be honest. There can be multiple groups of people oppressed for different reasons, at different times, and in different ways. Just because she happens to be a part of an extremely fortunate minority doesn't make the suffering of other minority groups somehow less valid. That's fucking idiotic, and its embarrassing that you validated that viewpoint.
But if I had to address that, I'd say, "Yeah the current apartheid state of Israel is pretty shitty-- along the lines of "separate but equal" and South Africa."
Israel is a hegemonic force of an entire region of the world, friend. It has massive sway over the Western World and its foreign policy initiatives.