hanikrummihundursvin
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hanikrummihundursvin
13hr ago
These are human beings with moral agency and rational minds. In principle there should be nothing stopping them from just ceasing to be an oppressive warmongering theocracy, and then, miraculously, the rest of the world would stop trying to blow them up.
I'm pretty sure there are Iranians pondering the exact same thing about the US and Israel.
Maybe the "antisemites" should.
I can feel a very clear border when talking to many of my foreign co-workers. There are topics beyond discussion because all parties know there isn't one to to be had. It would in fact be an insult to even broach them. Yet here I sit, my entire culture now revolving around how to accommodate their viewpoints within the nation my ancestors made.
Looking at the big picture it's all futile. They get a say in your land, you get no say in theirs. Their customs are sacred, yours are at best arbitrary and certainly up for critique and debate. They have a just cause, you have guilt and sin. And if you want to keep the peace then that's the truth. This dynamic has been playing out wherever immigrants stake their claim in the west. At some point it's just stupid not to point out how this all goes.
They ultimately recognize their common cause as outsiders who are trying to keep their foot in the door. Keeping my ear full of how great their country is and how bad mine is yet somehow never stumble on the idea that they are here for a reason that might impugn that assessment. That maybe because their countries have one too many a person with exactly their type of temperament and opinion is the reason why they find themselves traveling thousands of miles to a country with, apparently, worse weather, worse food, dumber laws, worse religion and more racists.
Humility would go a long way, but no. The most common explanation I get when I point this out is that somewhere along the way those nasty Europeans did evil to them and theirs, so they now have to come here. Well... What great neighbors I have!
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