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TMOD's avatar

Analogies are never perfect.

But this one feels right to me in the broad sense that oppression breeds violence which breeds oppression which breeds... You all get the point.

At some point, the justifications for both sides fall apart because the behaviors on both sides don't change. The real question is how to manage the generational trauma that such situations inevitably create. As our current US politics show us, we as a nation have still not fully processed the trauma of slavery for both black and white people. Fear, distrust, and righteous justification still dog our body politic.

Anyway, thank you for this. I found it helpful.

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Dbfw's avatar

Steve Q, brilliant connection between Nat Turner’s rebellion and Hamas’. Both then and now, a faction of the disenfranchised population, living in intolerable conditions, responds violently. And now as then, a ruling party responds murderously to murderous rebellion. I did not see this intersection of the two. Nice.

Ye old “Give me liberty, or give me death” of 1775 Rebel Virginia should have been in living memory of 1831 Slaver Virginia but, Alas! The purblind exercise of Confirmation Bias always relegates the other guy to having flawed character while I, myself, has no other choice but the obvious.

And tourists of “us and them” conflict don’t need to cross oceans for this benighted view. They can can simply look across the kitchen table at an ungenerous spouse or a river like the Rio Grande.

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