Somewhere out there, there's a Utopia...
But most Utopias didn't end well.
A short excerpt from my podcast with Benjamin Ginsberg:
“A lot of the railing against Israel is projecting onto Israel what they hate about America.
The settler colonialism, they’re thinking about America.
Now, if you go back in time, every square inch on the face of the earth used to belong to somebody else.
So we’re all settler colonialists— but they don’t want to go that far back.
They’re not calling for the destruction of Israel, a lot of them are calling for the destruction of the United States of America.
They’re talking about the destruction of Canada; the destruction of the West.
Because everything they say about Israel is an indictment of the West.
Some understand it, and some don’t.
Some poor students believe that there’s some place, somewhere where we all get along with one another, and we all love one another, and no one has to work…
Somewhere out there, there’s a Utopia.
But as you know, most Utopias didn’t end well.”
Is there no thought that maybe not everyone that disagrees with your views on Israel / Palestine views it as a colonial project?
Is it possible that some people can understand what makes the enlightenment and western society something worth preserving while at the same time have a real moral issue with killing children?
Maybe such a person might even suggest that killing people who disagree with you turns the western civilization values espoused into their opposite? In the name of preserving a principle you have compromise to the point of having no principles at all?
Some people call themselves anti-war and actually mean it. Have you ever interacted with a libertarian?
Beautifully said! I notice that the “oppressors” of yesteryear are often judged by today’s standards: statues are removed, reparations are demanded, Nobel Prizes are stripped from those who said the wrong thing 40 years ago. Meanwhile, the “oppressed” aren’t even judged in the present, despite committing unspeakable violence.
Since America, Israel and white Europeans are uniquely evil, I do wonder how they think other nations were formed? “Just sign here with your quill and the land is all yours, posthaste! Good luck to you and yours!”