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Originally Posted by rafiki
We're arriving at the predictable point where the powerful/powerless colonizer/colonized paradigm often fails. We were destined to get here.
And when it does fail as it has here, it always produces things like:
-rape denial
-oh but all armies rape
-but were the rapes coordinated?
-surely at some point the IDF raped
-tearing down hostage posters
-calling a Kibbutz a military installation
-calling any adult in Israel a soldier and every Palestinian a civilian
-calling the acts of Oct 7th "resistance"
These things I've listed are absolutely necessary for this powerful/powerless viewpoint of this world. And they're necessary because the people who back the "powerless" need them for their world to make any sense. You're the "righteous" ones. You're on the "right side of history". It stands to reason you must be rooting for good, right?
But what is obvious to anyone who understands humans, is you can be both less powerful, and HORRIBLE. There is absolutely no reason for those things to be mutually exclusive. So now we watch the world wiggle itself into a pretzel on what Hamas is. Denying or maneuvering around that darkness is all there is left to do.
Part of the cognitive dissonance you're experiencing is due to the black and white thinking that has permeated this conflict. Intersectionality and nuance are not addressed when using purely enemy/ally and good/bad framing. There are numerous power structures that interplay with one another, and you will not be able to accurately analyze debates like this when the only colors you are using are black and white and the conflict is infinite shades of gray.
I don't say this to pick on you. Clearly this is a common issue among posters itt.
You, like almost all the male posters itt, have approached the issue of rape and rape denial from the standpoint of Israel vs Hamas power structure, and I have approached it from the standpoint of men vs women power structure. You do, in fact, need both perspectives to accurately analyze the claims.