The breakdown that I see on this analogy on Substack & Medium is that even the Imperial Grand Wizzard of a Ku Klux Klan Klavern is not going to publicly say that the slave owners were the good guys. They did have reason to fear an uprising. Nat Turner was local, but that was small potatoes compared to what happened in Haiti. People not i…
The breakdown that I see on this analogy on Substack & Medium is that even the Imperial Grand Wizzard of a Ku Klux Klan Klavern is not going to publicly say that the slave owners were the good guys. They did have reason to fear an uprising. Nat Turner was local, but that was small potatoes compared to what happened in Haiti. People not in the fight want to choose sides, good guys and bad guys. With the carnage in Gaza people are choosing sides to justify the action of their "good guys" because slavery is universally seen as evil while the justification for what governments do to people is subject to debate.
Yes, the Palestinians lived there when Israel took over while the transatlantic slaves were in dysphoria. But both ended up in the same place and one had power and used it in cruel ways. While difficult to call terrorism justified, it is regrettably understandable. The Nat Turner slave rebellion and the Hanas attacks are called terrorism while states with large armies can kill noncombatants and destroy infrastructure and it is not called terrorism. If it is your dead and shattered loved one those words become irrelevant.
The breakdown that I see on this analogy on Substack & Medium is that even the Imperial Grand Wizzard of a Ku Klux Klan Klavern is not going to publicly say that the slave owners were the good guys. They did have reason to fear an uprising. Nat Turner was local, but that was small potatoes compared to what happened in Haiti. People not in the fight want to choose sides, good guys and bad guys. With the carnage in Gaza people are choosing sides to justify the action of their "good guys" because slavery is universally seen as evil while the justification for what governments do to people is subject to debate.
Yes, the Palestinians lived there when Israel took over while the transatlantic slaves were in dysphoria. But both ended up in the same place and one had power and used it in cruel ways. While difficult to call terrorism justified, it is regrettably understandable. The Nat Turner slave rebellion and the Hanas attacks are called terrorism while states with large armies can kill noncombatants and destroy infrastructure and it is not called terrorism. If it is your dead and shattered loved one those words become irrelevant.