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She's right.
that is drastically oversimplifying…
but i wouldn’t expect her to be able to sum that all up as a quick sound bite that’ll fit in a meme.
i’ll go with: she correctly identified one factor, but left out many other crucial details….
the full quote, which is actually quite accurate and succinct:
"Because of racism, that's the simple answer I would say. Racism, and uh, basically, desperately trying to defend a destructive deadly system, that systematically puts short term economic profit, and to maximize geopolitical power, over the well being of humans and the planet. And right now it's very very difficult to morally defend that, it is impossible, but still, they are desperately trying which is... absurd is not the word, but there are no words to describe it."
that’s a lot better than the meme clipped it at
I love that Greta's very existence triggers the right. You may not agree with her methods, but it's undeniable that she gets attention on the issues she finds important. She's doing more than me and anyone I know for issues I find important, and I admire her for that.
smiling on a cloudy day triggers the right…
It's sad that this statement is true to the core, but I've seen statements and videos of Israelites literally claiming that Palestinians are not considered human. They are considered beneath, or less than human due to their belief, and that is how they are justifying their ethnic cleansing of the area.
Dehumanizing is always the first step. Male them less than human and the people will let you abuse them. Once they get used to that, you can demonize the next group, and it will be even easier to get the rubes on board.
It's a damn injustice that they clipped that quote down to "racism".
I mean....is it?
Sure, the extended quote gives more reason and specific examples and highlights the moral bankruptcy of an economic system which never benefitted anyone but its own elite, and now has to cannabilize its values and populace to perpetuate its own existence even as it erodes under the weight of its own demand for consumption and profit while shedding every ounce of legitimacy like a rabid dog shaking off fleas...
but if you weren't raised as a middle class or above white person in the West, you already knew it was racism.
THIS is what you consider an injustice? Pathetic.
Go drink some water, pal. I thought it was a very well worded statement, and stripping it down like so really robbed it of a lot of its potency, imo. It's fine to disagree with me, that's your business, but to extrapolate that I consider this narrow quoting to be the injustice of injustices in this world is a little goddamn silly.
I don't disagree with you; and I agree that it was well-worded. I just think it's a pathetic use of the word.
This is a naive way to look at a news article.
She may have elaborated further but do you really think the press is going print an essay over a sound bite? Especially on social media?
Greta has made longer statements on this, why not look them up before thinking you know something you don't?
Who benefits from her elaborating? I think the one word quote does an adequate job of naming the problem clearly and making it recognizable.
One word answers in a headline are almost always done with express intent of ragebaiting people on social media because it helps algorithms promote posts if people respond to them. Its not about clarity, its about ambiguity
You're right about the intent, but it still doesn't diminish what I said. Racism also goes a long way towards explaining the methods that Western media excuses to rationalize violence against the rest of the world (see: all the reporting about Israeli airstrikes in Iran or the anti-immigration protests in N. Ireland)
The sooner we call a spade a spade instead of arguing over specifics, the less people will die.
it’s a meme
The correct word would be chauvinism: racism is chauvinism based on racial differences, but it could also be based on wealth or religion, on food preferences or anything arbitrary...
chauvinism is the root cause for all evil in the world
I would argue that is misleading only because it removes the central operating mechanism of the West's massive accumulation of wealth and domination of global politics; namely, the ideological belief that not only are Europeans superior, but that they are superior as a function of immutable, natural characteristics that can be elucidated through reason, intellect, and scientific inquiry and observation.
To cheapen the global Western project of white supremacy by simply calling it a derivative of chauvinism belittles the intentionality and institutionalization of the cultural project and lends credence to the idea that Europeans simply did what any other group would have done under the circumstances. Besides the apologist rhetoric apparent there, it also gives ammunition to the argument that the descendants of these people hold no responsibility for inheriting such a legacy, and therefore have no incentive to stop its perpetuation.
the true root of all evil is sarsaparilla
I'm glad everyone is listening to her and not giving a shit about what you think
you have a vivid imagination
If that's what passes for an insult these days, I'll happily take it! This world could use more people with vivid imaginations rather than blowhards who get bunched up over semantics.
i'm glad... btw:
Ah yes, the self-righteous, condescending ideologue: the historical harbinger of progress and justice.
There are other factors. And they're all rooted in racism.
Even the corruption of things like AIPAC. It's racism weaponized via bribery and blackmail. I don't know what AIPAC is called in other countries and don't care. But I know it exists. And its all just racism.
There is no grey area here. There is no debate. There are no "buts" here. An illegal settler occupation is ethnically cleansing an indigenous population. There is good and evil. And the ones doing the slaughtering are evil. Categorically, ontologically, indisputably evil. Period.
dude, i know it’s evil… racism is not the only culprit here, but it’s certainly a big one.
btw, palestinians and israeli’s are ethnically identical… they both originated from the same group that split over religious differences a thousand years ago.
Racism doesn’t exactly fit there, does it?
it’s so hard to have any discussion at all about this. if i disagree with any small detail, a ton of people jump on me like i’m some pro-israel fascist.
i’m not, i think they are horrible… i have seen the tiktok genocide website… it’s not just evil, they’re reveling in the evil. celebrating it….
but it’s not simply racism.
this is the way a teenager sees the world. they fit everything into something they are already familiar with.
here’s a good, very critical overview of the conflict in palestine… in a rap format: RAP NEWS | Israel v Palestine - feat. DAM & Norman Finkelstein
Okay, but the question is about why the world is not reporting it, not why Israel is doing it. Racism and secularism are the main culprits for the way it's being reported.
i was speaking more broadly about some of the nuances around this incredibly complex situation…
and what does secularism have to do with the media not reporting on crimes against humanity?
racism is there, but other factors left out are:
the Jews control the media /s.
kidding, kidding, however Israel has invested a lot in foreign propaganda and flex’s a lot of soft power.
also: the conflict has been going on for quite some time, and it’s been genocidal most of that time… media likes new stuff on the news, be of capitalism… so after several decades of “Israel did some MORE genocidal shit”, it stops having that same punch that sells papers….
also, hamas has done a lot of fucked up shit… ignoring the Oct 7th attack, and all the made up stories about that, Palestinian suicide bombers used to be a common occurrence… it kinda fucks up sympathy when you blow up a public commuter bus (i know not most palestinians don’t support hamas, but israel’s propaganda has focused on equivocating the two)….
i could go on, but i feel like conversation is wasted here… only praise of her majesty is welcomed here.
(i think greta is great, btw… i think blindly following people and attacking people who say anything contrary is self defeating).
Yeah, no one is innocent here. No one. I don't see Hamas genociding Israelites here though, do you? Secularism is for sure at play here. Christian nations are against the dirty Palestinian Muslims and their barbaric practices /s. They got most of their book from Judaism. They all worship the same fricking God though, Muslims included. You can't make it make sense, and it never will to outsiders unfortunately. I am not uplifting anyone into the spotlight, but at least some people ha e actual morals.
well that’s the false dichotomy they always play, hamas isn’t palestine.
they certainly would be genocidal if they could….
but like, bombing a 5 year old kid doesn’t attack hamas…
So if we ship the Palestinians to say Australia, and the Palestinians get support of money and weapons from a major superpower and then start to take land and resources from Australians and start to bomb them to dust. It will be ignored like how it is now?
your comparison is nonsense