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Blurtings and Blatherings's avatar

Better to complain about white men sitting with their legs open on the subway, or Margot Robbie not being nominated for an award. You won't be called a racist or have your career derailed. You'll probably get a pat on the head and a gold star from college professors or HR department. Why bring up Palestine when there's so much low hanging fruit?

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Bill's avatar

Thank you for this. I joined up prior to the Surge in Iraq and was proud when I saw a lesbian couple walking hand in hand in my town. Proud that my culture allowed and protected people like this.

As time went by, the intersectional attacks on my race and gender have accelerated. I've lost a great deal of my empathy as I've observed men who interceded in assault such as Sgt Jacob Pentland, Daniel Penny, etc be prosecuted for doing so.

The abuse of women outside the Western sphere is appalling and the silence of so called feminists both incomprehensible and infuriating. Had to explain FGM to some of my younger soldiers and couldn't believe they were unaware of it in our deployed area.

Reading something like this makes me want to care a bit once more, though it will be hard.

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