Here's chillrob's post.
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Originally Posted by chillrob View Post
The US has definitely done some bad things. Nearly all of the terrible things it did in the last hundred years, including the things you mentioned, were not known to be happening by 99.999% of the American people. And of that tiny portion who knew about it, 99% of those had no power to stop it.
This is in no way similar to a country that elected as their leadership a party which was a branch of a terrorist organization, whose 'party platform' was the genocide of an entire people. That is why I have no sympathy at all for those living in Gaza.
I don't care for Israel at all - I consider them probably the worst country currently allied with the US. But I dislike the people of Gaza more than the people of any other place in the world and I wouldn't shed a tear if every single one of them is killed.
Rob lays out his feelings from the perspective of why he feels that Gazan residents are much more responsible for bringing Hamas to power and keeping them there. He draws a distinction between that situation and other countries, such as the US, where he states that it also did terrible things, but mostly initially kept secret from the US population and it is much different for a population in such a large country to effect any change in govt policy. He also states that the main reason for his lack of sympathy for Gazan residents is that Hamas's agenda was hardly unknown at the time they were voted in.
Also, saying he wont shed a tear is very different then when someone says they advocate thatthey believe a certain group should be killed. And as he explains, his basis for his indifference is not because they are Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, etc. it's because they deliberately chose a terrorist group to govern them.
So that's why I didnt delete or take action on this post. When taken in the context of his entire post, it has a distinction that is lost when you only consider the single sentence in isolation.
This mod ruling doesnt mean I agree with his opinion, or that others may not find it offensive. But having an opinion that others find offensive is not, in and of itself, a reason to ban someone.