Reply #152: What you're leaving out is the context, plus comparing apples and grenades [View All]

[jaybeat]

Yes. TV advocating killing all of *anyone* is hate speech. But where did this speech come from? Could it be that Israel effectively committed genocide against the native inhabitants of Palestine, denying them fundamental rights of life, liberty and homeland solely for ethnic and religious reasons? It is a by-product of desperation and oppression. On the other hand, the hate speech you like to "substitute" (against Gays, African-Americans, etc.), is against those who are *already* oppressed, discriminated against, etc., being made by those who wish to continue and further this oppression.

Hate begets hate. Violence begets violence. If you take my farm away by force and kill my family, do you really expect me to go away peacefully to my refugee camp? Add thousands and thousands of families and farms over several generations, and what to you get...if you answered "suicide bombers," then DING, you're right!

Come on; anybody care to tally the number of Israelis killed since 1948 (or 1967, 1973, 1989 or any other date) and compare that to the number of Palestinians? But, of course, Hizbolla are "terrorists" and should not be listened to, but Israel has an infallible "right" to exist, no matter what it does to anyone else? Do Israeli actions "justify" suicide bombings? No. But yelling that at the top of your lungs won't stop them, either. If we can't even listen to those who have become so alienated from humanity that they will give their own life to take another, how do we expect to ever bring them back from that kind of place? Or should we not try and simply "kill all the terrorists, before they kill us"?

Of course, if we pursue that course (as the Repukes are), we'll all just end up dead. Yippee. Mission Accomplished. We won.