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    Race isn’t real, science says. Advocates want the census to reflect that.

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    22 minutes ago, Zaku3 said:

     

    Race is white people cope so they don't have to feel as bad about being colonizers/oppressors. Just a social contruct with no scientific basis. 

     

     

    Race as a modern concept really took off in the 17th century, with "whites" at the top and "blacks" at the bottom, as a means to justify the enslavement of people who were supposedly inferior to Europeans.  

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    Gaza/Israel Update (04/02): Israeli airstrike kills foreign workers of World Central Kitchen (Chef José Andrés food aid charity)

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    5 minutes ago, johnny said:

    how is it a hamas rocket if the size of the blast doesn’t line up with what hamas is capable of? like a hamas rocket but then one of this interceptor rockets IDF has? i’m not familiar with all this war technology 

     

    If it was a Hamas rocket, it's one they haven't fielded often (or at all) before.  If (big if) this is the case, that kind of lends credence to the theory that the rocket experienced a RUD during it's boost phase, as it's an unproven vehicle.  Solid rocket motors can fail without any forewarning. 

     

    I think the most likely scenario is that it was an Israeli rocket that targeted that location.  If they did target that location, I would think the most likely answer is because of bad intel.  I don't think Israel is stupid enough to target a hospital that holds no military significance, as the blow back they would receive from western supporters would not be worth it.  

    Gaza/Israel Update (04/02): Israeli airstrike kills foreign workers of World Central Kitchen (Chef José Andrés food aid charity)

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    3 minutes ago, ort said:

    Fox is ALL IN on turning this into a giant culture war. Anyone who isn't 100% in favor of genocide of Palestinians is an anti-semeitc deranged weirdo. They are pushing all of their chips in. The comment sections are next level INSANE. All reason, all nuance all everything is just to the window. Their page is 75% deranged culture war BULLSHIT with all nuance and reason tossed aside for inflammatory rhetoric and half truths and BLATANT NAKED DISGUSTING MANIPULATION.

     

    They won't be happy until there is blood on the street.

     

    Consciously or subconsciously, many of these people are hoping for an "end of times" scenario to play out in Israel.  

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    Race isn’t real, science says. Advocates want the census to reflect that.

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    Census should reflect that race isn’t real, advocates say - The Washington Post

    WWW.WASHINGTONPOST.COM
    The Human Genome Project convinced the vast majority of scientists that race doesn’t exist. Now a cohort of professionals and academics wants to change society.

     

    I've long held that race is a pretty poor way of describing oneself.  I think using culture (or sub-culture) or nationality provides better detail about who you are and the way you think compared to race or even ethnicity.  

    Gaza/Israel Update (04/02): Israeli airstrike kills foreign workers of World Central Kitchen (Chef José Andrés food aid charity)

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    Israel is committed to going into Gaza at this point.  I would figure the humanitarian thing to do would be to give time (more than 24 hours though!) to allow civilians to evacuate.  It would be a much shittier thing if they didn't do this, in my opinion.  Egypt needs to completely open up its border crossing.  It will be a lot easier to bring in and distribute aid in the Sinai then it would be to bring in that same aid into the densely packed Gaza.  

    Gaza/Israel Update (04/02): Israeli airstrike kills foreign workers of World Central Kitchen (Chef José Andrés food aid charity)

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    I do worry that this will spiral out of control, to the point where sympathetic Muslim majority countries will offer more than moral support for Hamas, and in response the west offers more than just moral support for Israel.  There is a risk this turns into a wider conflict, and that only helps countries like Russia and China deal with their own "problems" while the US and Europe are diverting attention to the middle east. 

    Gaza/Israel Update (04/02): Israeli airstrike kills foreign workers of World Central Kitchen (Chef José Andrés food aid charity)

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    I really wish there was a better way to eliminate Hamas targets compared to the methods that Israel is using.  While I have no doubt that the bombs and missiles they are using are very precise in what building they are trying to hit, the fact that they have to destroy whole buildings or even blocks of buildings means they are taking out a lot of innocent civilians too.  Sending in ground forces would result in a lot more bloodshed among IDF soldiers, so they probably wont go through with large scale incursions until many of these buildings are completely blown up. 

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