the_dunk_tank

Have you considered the fact she has grown up her entire life in countries that are NOT welcome to her?

Since 7th October, we have been bombarded with footage of cities being flattened, hundreds of thousands of people being displaced, towns in the West bank that were mentioned in the Bible get flattened and replaced with condominiums and refugees running towards the first food they have seen in weeks get shot at by machinegun and drones.

All this death and destruction, and its constantly just explained as Necessary, or that the killings were justified.

Algerian colonial history can be summed up as the French not seeing the Local Arab population as human beings. This Dehumanised view leads to treatment that is utterly indifferent to suffering at best and sadistic at worst.

Now we are watching the same attitudes and actions happen again in real time.

-24 votes

(Response from the OP)

She has grown up in countries much more welcome to her than Algeria, where being Bi is literally illegal, where women have fewer rights, where atheists basically don't exist in public, where activists like her are routinely abused and killed.

Algerian colonial history? Sure. But it's been 60 years now of brutal conservative autocracy, and that's Algeria, too.

42 votes

Response from the poster I originally quoted above:

Makes you wonder what sort of place Algeria would be if it was a French colony for over a century.

We can talk about all the terrible things France did to oppress, exterminate, and abuse Algerians during that period and you might shrug it off as "thats in the past, we dont do that now", but then you look at what is going in in Gaza and its the same sort of violence, the same mass displacements, and the same seizures of wealth and land by the powerful from people who have lived there for thousands of years,

-14 votes

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