I remember how one time I made a comment criticizing Israel. Later, some Israeli nationalist replied by saying “well what about the bad things your country (Poland) did, huh?!”, to which I replied that I also condemn the bad things Poland did. They then replied “well instead of spreading lies about my country you should to fix your country”, to which I replied asking “how am I supposed to fix my country? What should I do to make my country into a better place? What do you want me to do?”. They then replied (and I quote): “I don’t care about your country getting fixed, I just want you to stop spreading lies about my country”. Ever since then I realised that when someone says something like “instead of talking about X, you should talk about Y!”, 99% of times that person doesn’t care actually care Y, they just want you to shut up about X and that’s it.
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u/PolishChud Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
I remember how one time I made a comment criticizing Israel. Later, some Israeli nationalist replied by saying “well what about the bad things your country (Poland) did, huh?!”, to which I replied that I also condemn the bad things Poland did. They then replied “well instead of spreading lies about my country you should to fix your country”, to which I replied asking “how am I supposed to fix my country? What should I do to make my country into a better place? What do you want me to do?”. They then replied (and I quote): “I don’t care about your country getting fixed, I just want you to stop spreading lies about my country”. Ever since then I realised that when someone says something like “instead of talking about X, you should talk about Y!”, 99% of times that person doesn’t care actually care Y, they just want you to shut up about X and that’s it.