#blamethevictim — Public Fediverse posts

"Israeli atrocities are nothing new. The only novelty is the scale"

Joseph Massad: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israeli-atrocities-are-nothing-new-only-novelty-scale

#trauma #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #victimhood #Zionism #israel #Gaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #history #Gaza #IDF #military #army #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael

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"Thousands of children were killed? It’s the enemy’s fault. Our own children were killed? That is certainly the enemy’s fault. If Hamas carry out a massacre in a kibbutz, they are Nazis. If we drop 2,000-pound bombs on refugee shelters and kill hundreds of civilians, it’s Hamas’s fault for hiding close to these shelters. After what they did to us, we have no choice but to root them out. After what we did to them, we can only imagine what they would do to us if we don’t destroy them. We simply have no choice."

Omer Bartov: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

#trauma #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #victimhood #Zionism #israel #Gaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #OmerBartov #GazaWar #warOnGaza #IDF #military #army #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael

"Unlike the majority of @israel -is these young people had seen the destruction of #Gaza with their own eyes. It seemed to me that they had not only internalised a particular view that has become commonplace in Israel – namely, that the destruction of Gaza as such was a legitimate response to 7 October – but had also developed a way of thinking that I had observed many years ago when studying the conduct, worldview and self-perception of German army soldiers in the second world war. Having internalised certain views of the enemy – the Bolsheviks as Untermenschen; Hamas as human animals – and of the wider population as less than human and undeserving of rights, soldiers observing or perpetrating atrocities tend to ascribe them not to their own military, or to themselves, but to the enemy."
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#trauma #ethnicCleansing #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #victimhood #Zionism #israel #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #IsraelGazaWar #war #warOnGaza #IDF #soldiers #army

Omer Bartov wrote about the need of Jewish Israelis to believe in their national morality and to nourish #victimhood: 🧶

"This is the logic of endless violence, a logic that allows one to destroy entire populations and to feel totally justified in doing so. It is a logic of victimhood – we must kill them before they kill us, as they did before – and nothing empowers violence more than a righteous sense of victimhood."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/13/israel-gaza-historian-omer-bartov

#trauma #ethnicCleansing #PTSD #genocide #fragility #blameTheVictim #Zionism #israel #Gaza #JewishSupremacy #supremacy #raceMaking #believe #OmerBartov #IsraelGazaWar #GazaWar #warOnGaza #IDF #military #army #sociology #domination #history #reputation

Asking people to calm down protects privilege – and silences people who are hurting.

Tone policing: https://everydayfeminism.com/2015/12/tone-policing-and-privilege/

#emotionality #frustration #discomfort #tonePolicing #RobotHugs #languagePolice #conversations #debates #blameTheVictim #adultSupremacy #manliness #humor #humour #feminism #empathy #grievability #mentalHealth #school #adultDomination #adultism #maleSupremacy #adults #patriarchy #whiteSupremacy #JKRowling #transGender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #transPhobia #transLaw

If you show the value of a victim, you feel empathy. This increases the desire for equality but you feel bad: it endangers your health.

On the contrary, iIf you stress the mistake of a victim, you protect yourself: you feel like it should not happen to you. Society supports such detachment if the perpetrator is a white man or a police(wo)man.
Blaming the victim justifies inequality, discriminations, violence by the strongest. It normalizes (adult, white, male or cis) privileges. Therefore it normalizes patriarchy and white supremacy.

#blameTheVictim #Hamas #Gaza #ongoingNakba #rapeCulture #adultSupremacy #manliness #EstelleSays #humor #humour #feminism #empathy #grievability #mentalHealth #family #adultDomination #adultism #maleSupremacy #adults #domesticViolence #patriarchy #whiteSupremacy