• Goadstool [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Went to visit my gf’s mom in her rehab center yesterday, news of the protests came on and I got to hear this sweet old lady say “It’s just crazy, I can’t believe all those students hate the jews.” She’s not a conservative type of person, just kind of a vague lib, so it was weird to hear her say something like that. But I guess it goes to show how effective the media has been in ignoring shit like fucking mass hospital graves.

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      2 months ago

      Most people aren’t plugged in enough to know even a little bit of what’s going on. A lot of them have been hearing the same stuff coming out of the middle east their whole lives, and it all blends together.

      If it wasn’t so damaging to the message, I’d be slightly happy for those people because knowing about this stuff isn’t changing anything except my general attitude towards humanity

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      2 months ago

      This seems to be the general consensus among that age group. They will watch MSNBC or fox news (really no difference in the end) and believe every word they hear.

      Its really weird

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    2 months ago

    Well, we can’t even to get them to admit it’s a genocide. They will in 15 years when everyone is dead and the 20th McDonald’s goes up on the Gaza strip.