the left isn't as much pro-palestinian as anti-colonialist, for them there is nothing but the struggle of the peoples from the third world against the domination of european empires (including us, except ussr/russia), this is the reason why they always side with thirdies no matter how stupid the end result may be (eg. contemporary zimbabwe and south africa). a classical tankie will always find a way to justify the likes of russia and china, no matter how obviously evil they are, as in example russia using its asian minorities in documented meatwaves, or the chinese using the uyghurs as potential organ banks. > but the west does it too... doesn't matter, anyone using this argument is justifying these nations lack of moral superiority over the west, making the entire "alternative to globohomo" nill, i am not switching aids with cancer.
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