I've never seen any protest by students that protested against Palestine.

In fact, at University of Washington, a protest was organized to support Palestine after the Oct 7 massacre on Oct 8; they chose to show support Palestine after Palestine did a massacre. And there was a very little criticism on that kind of actions.

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8note 20 hours ago | parent | next [-]

is oct 7th actually comparable to what israel has done to Palestinians over time?

sure it was reprehensible, but is it on the same scale even? both before and after?

criticising hamas seems like premature optimization, and picking something basically irrelevant to the overall conflict

	▲	ergocoder 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> sure it was reprehensible Exactly, and organizing a support for Palestine immediately after Palestine committed a massacre is NOT okay. > criticising hamas seems like premature optimization Are you saying we shouldn't criticize Palestine? > picking something basically irrelevant to the overall conflict Why do I have to pick? Why do you need to pick? We can criticize both. Both are evil in different aspects. Why do you have so much issue with criticizing the evilness of Palestine?

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bdangubic 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I've never seen any protest by students that protested against Palestine.

you should think long and hard why that is but answer is as always quite simple

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ergocoder 20 hours ago | parent [-]

We all know why, and the reason doesn't fit what you want to believe. That's why you pretend to be obscure about it. Otherwise, you would have just said so out loud already.

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neaden 20 hours ago | parent [-]

It's because the US government doesn't fund hamas and US companies don't work with Hamas.

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ergocoder 20 hours ago | parent [-]

The protest isn't about Hamas/Palestine. It's about criticizing what Israel is doing.

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neaden 20 hours ago | parent [-]

I was answering why you don't see people protesting Hamas, which is what you brought up. If you didn't want to discuss that, then you shouldn't have brought it up.

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ergocoder 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

But the protest isn't about who funds whom. It's about criticizing what Israel is doing.

> If you didn't want to discuss that, then you shouldn't have brought it up.

I want to discuss it but you misunderstand the topic and seem angry based on your own misunderstanding.

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neaden 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I didn't misunderstand or get angry. You brought up people not protesting Palestine. I didn't insult you, belittle you, or anything else so I don't know why you would think I'm angry except you've just decided everyone who agrees with you is angry, which is a bad habit to have

	▲	ergocoder 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You were definitely angry given your comment here "If you didn't want to discuss that, then you shouldn't have brought it up." If you weren't, we would just discuss normally without insulting that the other side didn't have intention to discuss in a discussion forum. So, somehow my comment angered you that you had to resort to the tactics of undermining the other side.

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bdangubic 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

oh the armies on HN like OP will bring it up :)