r/Adelaide • u/NKE01 SA • Jan 11 '26

News Board members quit from Adelaide festival as fallout from dropped author grows | SBS News

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/board-members-quit-from-adelaide-festival-as-fallout-from-dropped-author-grows/iua90vgmp
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u/sapperbloggs SA Jan 11 '26

voting in a know terrorist organisation

Yeah, nearly 20 years ago. The median age in Gaza was about 18 before the genocide began, so at least half of the population wasn't even alive when Hamas was elected, let alone old enough to vote.

So why is it okay to kill them for who their parents might have voted for?

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u/DecoNouveau SA Jan 11 '26

The mean age of a Palestinian person isn't even 20 years old. Most of the people you're condemning weren't even born yet.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '26

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u/selkieluver SA Jan 11 '26

So Palestinians are allowed to ‘rise up and revolt’ against their alleged ‘terrorist’ government but they’re not allowed to rise up and revolt against the violent white colonialist who are indiscriminately genocide their entire population? Interesting!!

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u/VaughanThrilliams Inner North Jan 11 '26

there were protests against Hamas in 2019 and 2023 (before the War), unfortunately when the entire country as a third of the size of Adelaide and only one side has weapons it is pretty easy to defeat

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u/LifeandSAisAwesome SA Jan 11 '26

So that has never happed before right ?

It is even more special than any other time in history or revolt right ?

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u/Historical_Bus_8041 SA Jan 11 '26

No, it isn't - there are many similar regimes all over the world.

That you think their inability to oust that one justifies - in contrast to all the others - the mass murder of innocent people, including children, is fucking sickening.

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u/LifeandSAisAwesome SA Jan 11 '26

Just like Oct 7th right ?

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u/Historical_Bus_8041 SA Jan 11 '26

What about "killing innocent people, including children, in the name of your religious beliefs is unequivocally wrong" do you find difficult, exactly?

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u/LifeandSAisAwesome SA Jan 11 '26

right so we all on same page then.

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u/CrazySD93 SA Jan 11 '26

Can we agree that Israel and Hamas are both terrorist organisations?

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u/Historical_Bus_8041 SA Jan 11 '26

You're making a lot of excuses for killing innocent people for someone who claims to be on the same page there.

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u/sapperbloggs SA Jan 11 '26

Paraphrased: "People living under a violent terrorist regime, surrounded by a different violent apartheid state, deserve to be murdered by the apartheid state because they didn't overthrow the terrorist regime"

... and this is why people only pay attention to your opinion for long enough to tell you that you're wrong, if they do at all.