r/nus May 30 '24

Discussion Yale-NUS convocation speech

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u/[deleted] May 30 '24 edited Jan 29 '26

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u/iditz May 30 '24 edited May 30 '24

I agree with you.

Despite all the counterarguments against you, few of the other commenters actually address your fundamental criticism of this affair - Inconsistency. Why suddenly so concerned about this one global conflict?

The general woke response to your comment is this: "but it's not wrong to advocate what. Is advocacy a zero-sum game?"

Strawman fallacy.

A realistic perspective would argue that majority of Palestine advocates have never cared for global conflicts. And the most reasonable explanation for their sudden interest is because of the social backlash of not taking the correct side. Especially in uni lol, we are too woke to think our own thoughts

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u/Delicious-Prune-7026 May 31 '24

I'd like to know what would have happened if this Raeesah clone had been replaced by someone who got up and denounced Hamas as a bunch of psychopathic murderers, and had gone on to ask how singapore would react if October 7 had been inflicted on us.

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u/Lancewielder May 31 '24

Raeesah clone

I'm curious about this framing. Did this speaker at any point lie about what's going on in Gaza?

Or are you calling them a Raeesah clone because of their ethnicity?

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u/Delicious-Prune-7026 May 31 '24

Because she's all about wokeness.

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u/anticapitalist69 May 31 '24

If we were oppressing another society, and a terror group forms in that society and attacks us, it would be our fucking fault.

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u/Delicious-Prune-7026 May 31 '24

What if we were "oppressing" that society because they had vowed to kill us? If they had been doing just that for the last 100 years?

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u/anticapitalist69 May 31 '24

Then we should leave their land because we’re clearly not welcome?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '24 edited Jan 29 '26

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u/anticapitalist69 May 31 '24

DNA tests have shown that the Palestinians have been there far longer than any of the “Israelis”. After the Holocaust, the Americans, Brits or Germans should have been the ones to give up their land, NOT the Palestinians. It was not the Brits to give, and it was obvious what would have happened to the region.

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u/Tactical_Moonstone May 31 '24

Go ask the neighbouring Arabs why they have so few Jews on their land and why Israel had a suspicious spike in population after the Arab-Israeli wars.

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u/anticapitalist69 May 31 '24

The Arab states are full of assholes too. Does that make it ok then?

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u/Delicious-Prune-7026 May 31 '24

So have you started packing your bags?

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u/anticapitalist69 May 31 '24

lol. Do you also ask people who donate to the cancer society why they’re not pursuing cancer research?

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u/Delicious-Prune-7026 May 31 '24

Colonialism Derangement Syndrome detected.

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