The way I see things meritocracy is a tricky notion. It implies that if you are dispossessed, it's your fault and not a systemic failure.
Patriarchy is a systemic failure because categorises half the population as second class citizens, and that is the best case senario. Historically, more often than not, women have not been considered as citizens per se.
Complicated is no synonym of conspiracy theory, see Reality vs Fantasy.
Pointing out someone's contradictory arguments is definitely not ad hominem attack.
The argument started by person A stating a fact and person B claiming it's a conspiracy.
I stepped in and said it's no conspiracy.
Person B says, I didn't mean conspiracy, I meant it's more complicated
I respond to person B if you meant complicated, you would have said something along those lines. Instead you said conspiracy theory.
Calling out bs is not an attack on the person, it's a reflection to what they say.
For over a decade, Netanyahu has lent a hand, in various ways, to the growing military and political power of Hamas. Netanyahu is the one who turned Hamas from a terror organization with few resources into a semi-state body.
[edit: I shorten the quote cause actually this is the wrong article in relation to how Israel helped the creation of Hamas. Please see comment bellow with 3 links for relevant info.]
I don’t think Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. Israel is trying to take out Hamas, but Hamas is using the Palestinian people as human shields.
That is the narrative that the zionists and their colonialists allies propose. It's more appropriate to call it propaganda. It is crucial to believe this because otherwise the mass killing of civilians and children turns into the Genocide that it is.
Amnesty International concurs that there are worrying signs of genocide in the occupied Gaza Strip due to:
The staggering scale of death and destruction with 24,000+ Palestinians killed during the course of Israel’s relentless attacks on the occupied Gaza Strip;
The deliberate depriving of adequate food, water, medical care and humanitarian assistance to the civilian population through an almost total siege by Israel, putting the survival of those within Gaza at risk;
A spike in dehumanizing and racist rhetoric against Palestinians by multiple Israeli government and military officials;
A long history of discrimination and oppression of Palestinians, including Israel’s system of apartheid against Palestinians.
And an older one from the United Nations article that calls things as they are:
Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of increasing genocidal incitement, overt intent to “destroy the Palestinian people under occupation”, loud calls for a ‘second Nakba’ in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory, and the use of powerful weaponry with inherently indiscriminate impacts, resulting in a colossal death toll and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.
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When I first got the news I thought something was strange.
Then I realized what that was: in this "war" / Genocide we have not been used to reading about dead soldiers, just civilians and children.
Scary stuff.
That has already been established over an hour ago by 2 other comments, out of 7 in total (as of now). Not too sure how mentioning this a 3rd time helps this conversation?
By gender and wealth. Not only wealth.