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I think that only applies to whole groups of people who can't choose who they are. Some palestinian wishing Netanyahu died is a whole different thing from that same palestinian wanting every Israeli to die. And this can apply to any minority. To me, directing rage to the person directly responsible for someone's oppression is a completely different beast from directing that rage to an entire group of people who just happens to share one trait with said oppressor.
Besides, I'm not one to wish death on anyone, but if they die as a consequence of their deliberately cruel actions I'm not gonna care.
How is it different in any way? Do you think that Netanyahu dying somehow ends the war in Gaza? Saves the Palestinian people?
Wishing someone dead comes from hatred. Hatred for their actions, for who they are. Netanyahu and Israel can be stopped. He can be put in jail. And I am saying this as a person who is sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, who supports them.
Hatred is hatred and it breeds more hatred.
We are talking about wishing death to someone, not you caring when someone dies.
You are doing the exact same thing that I talked about. Trying to justify to yourself that you are still "good" but still wishing death, hating.
See, this is a problem we commonly see as "tone policing". You can't really tell victims of actually cruel people to not dislike their oppressors. You're showing more of a concern with decorum and being respectable than the fact the people are being oppressed.
You are strawmanning. I never said anything about tone policing, or telling victims to like their oppressors. We are talking about wishing death on someone and about hatred.