374
'We Are All Culpable': Third American Self-Immolates to Protest Israel's Gaza Onslaught
(www.commondreams.org)
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2024
374 points (93.1% liked)
politics
18883 readers
3593 users here now
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
- Post only links to articles, Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive. Do not post entire articles in the body or in the comments.
- Articles must be relevant to politics. Links must be to quality and original content. Articles should be worth reading. Clickbait, stub articles, and rehosted or stolen content are not allowed. Check your source for Reliability and Bias here.
- Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.
- No memes, trolling, or low-effort comments. Reposts, misinformation, off-topic, trolling, or offensive.
- Vote based on comment quality, not agreement. This community aims to foster discussion; please reward people for putting effort into articulating their viewpoint, even if you disagree with it.
- No hate speech, slurs, celebrating death, advocating violence, or abusive language. This will result in a ban. Usernames containing racist, or inappropriate slurs will be banned without warning
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Imagine looking at this and reaching the conclusion that it is he and not the world that has gone mad.
What, are you 16? Do you think this is some kind of life-changing insight?
It changes nothing. He's still dead and the genocide continues for your entertainment.
Anyone who blames themselves for something they have absolutely no say in or control over, to the degree they are willing to set themselves on fire over it, is mentally ill.
Your confused. Self-immolation isn't about self-punishment anymore than any other protest method.
It's the "we are all culpable" leading to the immolation that's indicative of mental illness.
He said "we are all culpable" not "I alone am culpable."
I think most if not all of the "he's nuts" talk is from people who would rather not consider themselves culpable.
And that's stupid binary thinking and he was wrong.
Thus.
If you refuse to speak up and take a principled stand against genocide, you are culpable.
Tacit support for genocide is indicative of mental illness.
Any world in which the principal superpower lets a tiny nation write its foreign policy for it, to the point where that superpower is giving the tiny nation the means to commit genocide and refuses to stop, is a profoundly sick world.
Israel attacked an intelligence gathering ship to prevent it from realizing that Israel was the one starting shit in Syria... then the US really started supporting it.
Israel is a blight on the world.
I mean dude did kill himself by setting himself on fire. That's pretty nuts
That's tame in comparison to the genocide he is protesting.
What's nuts is you attacking the man who was killed by the US support for genocide, rather than continuing to attack the US genocide.
If you disagree with his form of protest against the genocide, fine, ignore it and go do your own form of protest.
What's the point in criticizing him? Make yourself feel better?
I'm encouraging others not to waste their lives, when they can accomplish far more by staying alive and engaging.
But if you want to torch yourself and refuse to get professional help, I can't stop you. Just don't encourage others to emulate your disordered thinking.
More immediate cause was probably all that burning gasoline he poured on himself. What a waste
Damn you're pathetic and evil.
You're trying to blame the US for some suicidal man killing himself. Idk, I'm not a fan of suicide overall.
Would you like me to be pro-suicide..? That's whack
It's unfortunate that you would rather attack a man for the way he opposes a genocide than move on and oppose a genocide yourself.
You can't support him because it would support his truth that we are all culpable, and you can't face that reality.
And yes, it is America's fault he has genocide on his conscience and felt compelled to go to such measures, he is a victim of America's genocide. Was Hitler just suicidal in that bunker? Or do you recognize that external actions can influence such things in that case, and just choose to remain ignorant in this one?
I would like you to be a sympathetic understanding human being opposed to genocide, who even if they don't agree with this man's actions themselves, recognizes the context they exist in and focuses towards the true goal of opposing a genocide, rather than attacking a righteous martyr.
But that's a tall ask for Americans in the core of the genocidal imperialist project, unfortunately.
If the way of your protests is suicide then yes I'm going to "attack" that protest. Bazillion other ways to protest that don't involve literally killing yourself.
Btw I'm not American, hopefully you didn't assume that. There's life outside of the US you know, we exist
I mean, we're kinda working on that as a species as well.
And would you call that sane?
Nope. But we're gonna keep doing it anyway, and calling this guy crazy because it's easier than admitting that we are all culpable.
You are in no position to determine my degree of culpability, or that of anyone who's not pulling a trigger.
Wash those hands, Pilate.
Friend, come on
If you want to pretend that we live on a sane planet, well, when on Earth, do as the Earthlings do, I guess.
I'm saying killing yourself over US actions isn't a sane move. You brought up global warming in reply as if that meant anything in this discussion.
And I'm saying that no product of this barking mad oblate spheroid is qualified to make that assessment. But dismissing him as insane is a great way to not have to treat his rebuke to humanity as the just condemnation it is.
He did covered himself in gasoline and light that up as a form of suicide. It does sound a bit insane.
Maybe one day someone will say something that causes you to consider similar words to his. Oh who am I kiddin'. It's just crazy talk.
I'm sorry but I have no idea what this means. Similar words to whose, what words?
Yeah, I know. It wasn't support for genocide, so you didn't listen at all.
Listen to what?
You have no idea he even said anything, huh?
"We are all culpable" says the title, didn't read more into it than that.
This is still puzzling me. Maybe some day someone will say something that will make me consider saying the same thing that made me do the considering. Did I understand that correctly? It just seems like a confusing sentence imo.
Oh, you were finally able to read it.
No, maybe someday will say something that causes you to consider similar words instead of immediately dismissing anything that isn't support for genocide as insanity.
No I read the title before commenting anything here. i just had no idea what words and from whom you meant.
I don't know if this helped me to understand what you are saying. "Someday will say something that causes me to consider similar words"? Whuut. I'm not a native English speaker so sorry if that's why I don't get it but I have no idea what you mean with that.
Someday, someone who is more convincing than I am will convince you that any words that aren't support for genocide and only genocide aren't utter insanity.
Okay, I get it now. But I wasn't calling being anti-genocide insanity, rather burning yourself alive over it.
If you say so.
Correct