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Not saying they're not worthy of empathy, but
it's incredible to me that Dave Chappelle can offer so much support for Palestinian displacement, elevating it to the archetype of human suffering, while completely ignoring the underlying causes that led to this situation.
Not saying they're not worthy of empathy, but
it's incredible to me that Dave Chappelle can offer so much support for Palestinian displacement, elevating it to the archetype of human suffering, while completely ignoring the underlying causes that led to this situation.
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There's a perverse emphasis on victimhood that divorces the Palestinian situation from its historic context, like its genocidal terrorist figureheads who preordained Palestinian displacement by kidnapping Israelis and then using Gaza as a big human shield to hide behind.
There's a perverse emphasis on victimhood that divorces the Palestinian situation from its historic context, like its genocidal terrorist figureheads who preordained Palestinian displacement by kidnapping Israelis and then using Gaza as a big human shield to hide behind.
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Somehow its always impossible for Chappelle to offer any meaningful analysis of the situation beyond the lazy mantra of "Israeli apartheid." Believe me, if your neighbors were blowing themselves up and axe-murdering your children as a national pastime, you'd build a wall too.
Somehow its always impossible for Chappelle to offer any meaningful analysis of the situation beyond the lazy mantra of "Israeli apartheid." Believe me, if your neighbors were blowing themselves up and axe-murdering your children as a national pastime, you'd build a wall too.
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In the very same monologue this hypocrite talks about how much of a sweat it is being famous. Remember that one time a dude rushed the stage with a knife trying to get at him? Dave has had security on stage at every show since then and he beefed up his home security too.
In the very same monologue this hypocrite talks about how much of a sweat it is being famous. Remember that one time a dude rushed the stage with a knife trying to get at him? Dave has had security on stage at every show since then and he beefed up his home security too.
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Israelis have knife attacks daily. This doesn't seem like much of an empathic stretch for him.
But I guess rich people need sensible security, even if their monologue includes openly shitting on the poor. But when Jews need security then that's apartheid.
Israelis have knife attacks daily. This doesn't seem like much of an empathic stretch for him.
But I guess rich people need sensible security, even if their monologue includes openly shitting on the poor. But when Jews need security then that's apartheid.
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Come to think of it, if I was rich and having obsessive worries about class war I too would reach for useful red herrings and redirect the mob's anger towards the Jews (the Jewish state) while reaching for sanctimonious pieties about our need to come together and condemn them.
Come to think of it, if I was rich and having obsessive worries about class war I too would reach for useful red herrings and redirect the mob's anger towards the Jews (the Jewish state) while reaching for sanctimonious pieties about our need to come together and condemn them.
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