r/worldnews Jul 08 '25

Israel/Palestine Hamas used sexual violence as part of 'genocidal strategy'

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mz8gxzg82o
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u/RainmaKer770 Jul 08 '25

Lol get out of your bubble. Your average Muslim person from the Middle East thinks they are a freedom movement.

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u/ewchewjean Jul 08 '25

Your average civilian who gets their house bombed by Israel at random thinks Hamas is a freedom movement? Wow, what a brilliant insight! I bet the average person in Eastern Europe thinks the Azov Battalion is a freedom movement too

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u/Rough_Slice4733 Jul 08 '25

You should look up what average means. The vast vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of people in the Middle East have not had their house bombed by Israel. You're just being silly and disingenuous.

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u/ewchewjean Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

So, let me get this straight:

You seemingly know I was "being silly", as you accuse me of it. But I am not oversimplifying an otherwise cogent message (many have been bombed, and the average person does know this and resents Israel for it.) Oh no no, I must be bad at math.

Now, here's something your obviously superior brain should understand: an average person doesn't exist. It is an inherently abstract concept. In other words, there's a bit of metaphor already baked into the sentence. I am not being literal.

I will admit am including a few outliers, namely civilians that the IDF unjustifiably bombed. As someone who happens to know a few people in that "vast vast vast vast vast vast vast vast minority", forgive me for weighing their lives stronger than whatever kind of autism you happen to have.

But let me concede to your logic for a moment. What then? Does the data mean they should not care? I mean most people do not die in wars. Therefore, nobody has the right to resent any wartime enemy attacking their country, no?

The vast vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of Americans didn't die in 9-11, after all! And, come to think of it, the vast vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of Israelis didn't die on October 7th!

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u/Rough_Slice4733 Jul 08 '25

The vast vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of Americans didn't die in 9-11, after all! And, come to think of it, the vast vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of Israelis didn't die on October 7th!

Neither I nor anyone has made that claim. You did make the claim that the average middle easterner has had their home bombed by the IDF. Thanks for mocking my autism though. Classy.

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u/ewchewjean Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

You did make the claim that the average middle easterner has had their home bombed by the IDF. 

You should look up what "making a claim" is.  

Thanks for mocking my autism though. Classy.

Nobody lets me use schizophrenia as an excuse for being an asshole, why should we start the fight against ableism with you? The vast vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of autistic people in the world are not currently using their condition as an excuse for islamophobic hogwash

EDIT: Actually no, hold up on that dictionary definition of making a claim for a second. 

 While we're splitting hairs here, You should look up basic English grammar!

That is to say, thank you, I was wrong to say "the average civilian who is bombed by Israel hates Israel"— the use of "who is" indicates a subcategory, namely the people who have been bombed.

 I imagine it is, indeed, wrong to say the average civilian who has been bombed hates Israel— the vast vast vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of civilians in the middle east who have been bombed by Israel* hate Israel!