As always, brilliantly written! I love the idea of a Tyranny Day but fear people might try to cancel and criticize your idea without reading the whole post! 🤦♂️
However, you omitted a very important fact. Gazans voted Hamas into power. They did so at a time when Hamas was well known to be a brutal, violent terrorist organization.
Clearly, that doesn't mean Gazans should be treated as if they are all Hamas.,but given that they knowingly chose as their leaders, people who were, at the time, known to be violent tyrants, they bear a different kind of moral culpability than most people who find themselves under the thumb of tyrants.
No one voted for Castro. No one voted for Lenin or Stalin or Mao or Kim.
Gazans voted for Hamas. They knew what they were getting.
Again, that doesn't mean they ARE Hamas. But it does mean that they are, themselves, vastly more responsible for the situation they find themselves in than your typical victim of tyranny.
As always, brilliantly written! I love the idea of a Tyranny Day but fear people might try to cancel and criticize your idea without reading the whole post! 🤦♂️
Andrew, everything you said is accurate.
However, you omitted a very important fact. Gazans voted Hamas into power. They did so at a time when Hamas was well known to be a brutal, violent terrorist organization.
Clearly, that doesn't mean Gazans should be treated as if they are all Hamas.,but given that they knowingly chose as their leaders, people who were, at the time, known to be violent tyrants, they bear a different kind of moral culpability than most people who find themselves under the thumb of tyrants.
No one voted for Castro. No one voted for Lenin or Stalin or Mao or Kim.
Gazans voted for Hamas. They knew what they were getting.
Again, that doesn't mean they ARE Hamas. But it does mean that they are, themselves, vastly more responsible for the situation they find themselves in than your typical victim of tyranny.