Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "Campus Protests, Antisemitism, and Western Values (Episode #367)" video.

  1. 21:12 Sam, you haven't looked very hard. All of these listed arguments are verifiably false. 1) occupying nations are subject to a different standard than resistence of occupations. 2) the definite of apartheid does apply to walls, freedom of movement, economic blockades, checkpoints, voting rights, and judicial processes based solely on birthright. 3) Israel is a colony, they and the West who illegally assigned them the land of others admit it. 4) the brutality of Oct 7 pales in comparison to the generations of assaults against gazand prior, like operation cast lead, and the statistics prove it looking at death tolls for decades one compared to the other. 5) the values of the West you love so much have done nothing to put Trump or Republicans in jail, or banks or any other white collar criminals, but black men fill prisons which are for-profit institutions. 6) Iran was democratic, go look up any source to find out why Iran is the way it is today. It was American exploitation, spoiler alert. Look up banana Republic, or cía sponsored coups, or recently the Dobbs decision with the context of the hearings from Trump appointed justices. Violation of law, rights, human dignity, sovereignty, and corruption are western values. You can't sincerely promulgate your higher ground dismissing the vile atrocities and the root causes of the world's refusal to accept any of the arguments you make here. You're a smart guy, just speak with someone educated who disagrees with you, just like you had to do when you were denying covid. The older you get the more you seem intent on spreading disinformation rather than learning. 32:32 capitalism is just as much a religion of exploitation and conquest as your claims of Islam, if not more. It's not all capitalists, certainly not my capitalism, but my Buddhism lends to a more rounded view of reality and humslity of my understanding than yours does, it would seem. My Buddhism asks me to listen to others, which I implore you to attempt. Just stop and learn before you keep speaking and preaching your beliefs like they're facts, or you'll only become the thing you hate the most - a religious zealot of another variety. 😊 This is not religious, it is apartheid by definition, it is genocide, the world agrees as per UN resolutions every year. The racist quoted of Israel's cabinet for eg.
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  2. 48:42 news flash, USA turned a boat full of Jewish refugees back when they fleed Nazi concentration camps. So work camps became death camps because USA would only send them back. Read up, we took the useful ones because they benefit us. That's not the high ground, that's more exploitation and selfishness. The American culture is exactly this, self centered, self serving, and ignorant of everything but our "better values". Let's not lie to ourselves, indeed. This is a truly sick interpretation of the moral landscape. I really hope you have the self awareness to at least fact check something I've said.
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  3. 40:03 imagine if 9/11 happened every year and the whole world ignored you and your people every year of your 30 year old life. Nobody cared, even though everyone on earth knew it was illegal, by the letter of the law and UN votes. You've got nothing to lose and become radicalized, or you're s victim who never sees justice. Your analog of 911 is exactly apt. Imagine doing nothing. Imagine it happening every year and doing nothing but ask the world to enforce international law. Imagine not throwing a stone, because you know it will get your hands broken even if you're a teenager and the rock could only have a chance at striking a Tsnk. Imagine being jailed for it in addition to being crippled with broken knees but a military trial by IDF is all you get and you're tried as an adult despite having no parents or school to have taught you otherwise because they were murdered for sport, or caught in the crossfire of Hamas attacks. Imagine you even tried to imagine the innocent people in this conflict, powerless and threatened by both Hamad and IDF, in plain view of the world and nobody bothers to feel your pain because you have nothing to offer. Imagine what it would take to convince a person to blow themselves up just to hurt civilians living 100' away on the other side of a wall, just out of spite. Imagine you're wrong. Try it.
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