22 Jan 2024 7:10 am
I wrote, "[The Palestinian's counterattack of 10.07.23] is reminiscent of Turtle Island's Tuscarora War, in which Tuscarora 'Indians' repeatedly razed squatter settlements and killed settler colonialists/squatters, including women and children in the Province of Carolina, as well as in other places. That type of thing is never a good thing, but it is the sort that naturally occurs in a settler colonial/squatter dynamic."
In reaction, RebelGator wrote: "No, it is not what typically occurs, but the difference causes the master/slave dynamic."
As Turtle Island's Tuscarora War and many other such incidents demonstrate, the killing of women and children by typically subjugated colonized people is indeed what often happens in settler colonial/squatter projects. One could center a Ph.D. dissertation or even a lengthy book on the massacres understandably committed by native peoples against settler colonialists in the U.S., Australia, Canada, Algeria, and other settler colonial projects. They number in the thousands.
"...but the difference causes the master/slave dynamic."
The cause of the master/slave dynamic is nothing other than chattel slavery, which, throughout the past five hundred years, has been driven by capitalism and its pre-historical formation of mercantilism. Nothing else creates the master/slave dynamic. Chattel slavery was central to the primitive accumulation that made the capitalist system possible, without which capitalism would not been able to come to fruition.
RebelGator: "Your attempt at excusing genocidal behavior is noted..."
To assert that my support of Palestinians somehow constitutes approval of genocide is akin to alleging that native Americans or native Australians who defended themselves against their respective settler colonialists committed genocide. It is an absurdity and a form of projection of the highest order. While lacking aircraft, watercraft, tanks, nuclear weapons, and the backing of the U.S., the Palestinians, with or without Hamas, are materially incapable of engaging in genocide. Palestinians haven't the ability to do anything of the like, and the Zionist States' supporters know it.
Indeed, the Palestine/Israel impasse cannot accurately be described as a war, let alone a genocide being carried out by Palestinians. It is a wholly one-sided and cowardly slaughter - a slow-motion genocide perpetrated by the world's fourth-largest military against a group of impoverished and mostly defenseless human beings. That is why Zionists and their supporters of various stripes, including Christian Zionists, endeavor to dehumanize Palestinians, thereby attempting to justify their hideous behavior. But, in doing so, they merely dehumanize themselves.
In reaction, RebelGator wrote: "No, it is not what typically occurs, but the difference causes the master/slave dynamic."
As Turtle Island's Tuscarora War and many other such incidents demonstrate, the killing of women and children by typically subjugated colonized people is indeed what often happens in settler colonial/squatter projects. One could center a Ph.D. dissertation or even a lengthy book on the massacres understandably committed by native peoples against settler colonialists in the U.S., Australia, Canada, Algeria, and other settler colonial projects. They number in the thousands.
"...but the difference causes the master/slave dynamic."
The cause of the master/slave dynamic is nothing other than chattel slavery, which, throughout the past five hundred years, has been driven by capitalism and its pre-historical formation of mercantilism. Nothing else creates the master/slave dynamic. Chattel slavery was central to the primitive accumulation that made the capitalist system possible, without which capitalism would not been able to come to fruition.
RebelGator: "Your attempt at excusing genocidal behavior is noted..."
To assert that my support of Palestinians somehow constitutes approval of genocide is akin to alleging that native Americans or native Australians who defended themselves against their respective settler colonialists committed genocide. It is an absurdity and a form of projection of the highest order. While lacking aircraft, watercraft, tanks, nuclear weapons, and the backing of the U.S., the Palestinians, with or without Hamas, are materially incapable of engaging in genocide. Palestinians haven't the ability to do anything of the like, and the Zionist States' supporters know it.
Indeed, the Palestine/Israel impasse cannot accurately be described as a war, let alone a genocide being carried out by Palestinians. It is a wholly one-sided and cowardly slaughter - a slow-motion genocide perpetrated by the world's fourth-largest military against a group of impoverished and mostly defenseless human beings. That is why Zionists and their supporters of various stripes, including Christian Zionists, endeavor to dehumanize Palestinians, thereby attempting to justify their hideous behavior. But, in doing so, they merely dehumanize themselves.