Passion is good. Empathy is good. But if you want to advance the laudable view that we ought not trivialize suffering, you’re fucking it up badly here. Caring about the suffering of Palestinians but not Israelis is no more laudable than the reverse. I value your voice here and don’t want to lose it even temporarily, but I also value other people’s, and you can probably already tell that you’re costing us those. Attempts to get on the right side by hardening one’s heart against the concerns of oppressors invites manipulation of one’s perception of oppression and turns justice into a PR auction, one which anti-Semitic white supremacists are currently delightedly manipulating. More importantly, showing that you care about some people’s suffering and not others harms our Stately Play community, which is the only community you’re directly affecting with your posts. That sort of thinking is a warning to anyone at risk of being othered, and when you specifically address it to another member of our community, that’s completely unacceptable.
I explain all this because I haven’t had to before now, and I want you to have an opportunity to learn. But, from a certain perspective, it looks like you got aggressive with another poster here because he’s Jewish, and the only reason that’s not an instaban is that there are lots of other perspectives, this whole topic is horrifically messy with clear moral imperatives seemingly conflicting right and left, and you’ve shown you’re trying to consider many perspectives and have a long history of community-building here.
So, think about how your posts look from the viewpoint of someone threatened by anti-Semitism at home, who knows that the neo-Nazis in their country are using this (yes, horrific, disproportionate, apparently illegal and genocidal) war as a recruiting tool to get people unwittingly helping them around the world. And remember that damage isn’t collateral if it’s the only damage you do.