theblueredditrefugee
Ok this objection I can abide. Metaphors are inherently ambiguous. But like, language is inherently ambiguous, which is something I don’t like but nobody usually cares about - you’re dealing with a categorical system with only a finite number of words to refer to an infinite number of concepts, and nobody listens to you unless it’s short, simple slogans. So really, there’s no good way to use language at all.
In this context, the point is “the thing happening in Palestine should evoke the same emotional response as the Holocaust and not be ignored simply because the victims aren’t white”, for which there’s no way to evoke the appropriate emotional response without metaphor, which is why I got emotional
Oh my GOD where the FK are you getting those stupid-ass numbers, from the fking IDF? They’ve literally depopulated a nation that used to have literally MILLIONS OF PEOPLE down to a couple hundred thousand, and they’re trying to fking finish the job. It’s fking genocide and your blasé fking trash attitude towards it means YOU’RE FKING TRASH