Just reposting this excellent point from lemmygrad

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    I don’t think it’s fair to equate the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and the injury and radiation poisoning and genetic defects of countless more to killing, what, 5 children? That’s absurd. You’re blowing this completely out of proportion.

    You can argue it’s wrong but I can’t imagine getting upset over something like that. There’s a simple matter of scale to consider.

    • SixSidedUrsine [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      And again, that’s exactly what the fascist apologists for the dropping of nuclear bombs on innocent Japanese civilians say.

      “I can’t imagine getting upset over something like child murder.” I almost put in one of the disgust emojis here but it felt like it was too light-hearted for the disgust I’m actually feeling right now for people I used to think of as comrades.

      • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        Lol holy shit 5 innocent people were killed a hundred years ago and you’re throwing around “people I used to think of as comrades” because we’re not clutching pearls hard enough over it.

        What a ridiculous thing to care about. Do you support revolution? You realize that lots of innocent people would die in a conflict like that, right? Way more than 5, I can tell you that! Revolution is not a dinner party.

        I’m sorry that I don’t consider the lives of royals to be worth more than other people. Kill the lib in your head.

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          “lol, you actually care about innocent people? What a rube! What a LIB!”

          And no, I don’t give a shit what you clutch pearls about - I mean, I would have thought someone interested in liberation would give a shit about human beings, but maybe that was naive of me - I’m said the “former comrades” thing because I expect the people I consider comrades not to support murdering the children simply because those children were born to their (and my) class enemies.

          And get the fuck out of here with your “ooooooooh, but that’s ReVoLuTiOnN!!” schtick. You’re like the fucking reactionaries talking about those woke tankies for being upset by the “collateral damage” of all those Iraqi civilians. Oh boo hoo, innocent people. Who gives a shit about them, right? That’s just WAR. Yeah, no shit people die in war, but you pretending that that’s the same as there being innocent people who are your prisoners and are defenseless, literally children who at your mercy and then choosing to shoot them… That kind of false equivalency and gross disregard for innocent people truly is beyond the pale.

          Kill the reactionary chud in YOUR head.

          So yes, fuck you. You are no comrade of mine, just as no apologists for bigotry, SA, fascism, or in this case, child murder, are. It’s like that Che quote “if you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.” Well, you clearly aren’t because you clearly don’t give a shit about injustice, so long as it’s perpetrated by those you deem to be on your side.