cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17887604
“Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered. But never before have I watched as soldiers enticed children like mice into a trap and murdered them for sport.”
- Christopher Hedges American journalist on assignment in Gaza
We were talking about children who have died; my point is that Russia isn’t trying to kill them all.
Yes, Russiafication is genocidal. Israel doesn’t do anything like that. They just butcher and slaughter children instead.
That’s still not a great thing to be defending.
I didn’t defend anything, I pointed out why it’s wrong to derail a thread about Israel to make it about Russia.
Can we not be concerned about more than one thing at a time?
I know I can.
You quite obviously can’t, or you would be able to talk about the topic of Gazan children as well.
I think we should keep discussions on topic.
Israel is intentionally hunting and killing children (still, even after the ceasefire). Bringing up Russia is a derail, because they don’t actually do that.
You can interact with Lemmy the way you feel fit as can I.
I can pay attention to more then one thing at once.
And I can call it out as a false equivalency, which is what I did. One is actually worse.
They’re both as bad and bringing it to attention shouldn’t be controversial.
Killing children is worse than not killing them.