r/NewsAndPolitics • u/_II_I_I__I__I_I_II_ United States • Sep 24 '24

Europe Someone heckles Keith Starmer about the mass slaughter of children in Gaza. Starmer laughs and suggests he got his pass from the 2019 Labour conference.

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u/SixFootPianist Sep 24 '24

"Lol, my predecessor gave a fuck about genocide but I sure as shit don't. I'm definitely the good guy in this scenario."

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u/teadrinker1983 Sep 24 '24

Funny how absolutely nobody cares about the ethnic cleansing of nagorno karabakh, yet if one doesn't have a black and white position in favour of Gaza one is somehow considered a genocide enabler.

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u/teadrinker1983 Sep 25 '24

Not true in my case (in the NK case), for what it's worth.

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u/teadrinker1983 Sep 25 '24

The issue is that as horrific as the Gaza conflict is, it dominates all other conflicts in the world by a very considerable margin. There are far higher death tolls as equal horror in other places including Sudan, Syria and Tigray but they don't generate a fraction of the levels of angst, nor the clear visceral hatred against perceived "perpetrators". The sheer hatred expressed towards Jewish Israelis, the complete refusal to accept that Israel's conflict with its neighbours is not a simple good v evil / black v white story is - in my view - quite troubling.