[ergocoder]

I've never seen any protest by students that protested against Palestine.

In fact, at University of Washington, a protest was organized to support Palestine after the Oct 7 massacre on Oct 8; they chose to show support Palestine after Palestine did a massacre. And there was a very little criticism on that kind of actions.

[8note]

is oct 7th actually comparable to what israel has done to Palestinians over time?

sure it was reprehensible, but is it on the same scale even? both before and after?

criticising hamas seems like premature optimization, and picking something basically irrelevant to the overall conflict

[ergocoder]

> sure it was reprehensible

Exactly, and organizing a support for Palestine immediately after Palestine committed a massacre is NOT okay.

> criticising hamas seems like premature optimization

Are you saying we shouldn't criticize Palestine?

> picking something basically irrelevant to the overall conflict

Why do I have to pick? Why do you need to pick?

We can criticize both. Both are evil in different aspects.

Why do you have so much issue with criticizing the evilness of Palestine?

[bdangubic]

> I've never seen any protest by students that protested against Palestine.

you should think long and hard why that is but answer is as always quite simple

[ergocoder]

We all know why, and the reason doesn't fit what you want to believe. That's why you pretend to be obscure about it. Otherwise, you would have just said so out loud already.

[neaden]

It's because the US government doesn't fund hamas and US companies don't work with Hamas.

[ergocoder]

The protest isn't about Hamas/Palestine. It's about criticizing what Israel is doing.

[neaden]

I was answering why you don't see people protesting Hamas, which is what you brought up. If you didn't want to discuss that, then you shouldn't have brought it up.

[ergocoder]

But the protest isn't about who funds whom. It's about criticizing what Israel is doing.

> If you didn't want to discuss that, then you shouldn't have brought it up.

I want to discuss it but you misunderstand the topic and seem angry based on your own misunderstanding.

[bdangubic]

oh the armies on HN like OP will bring it up :)