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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26226120
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17887604
"Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered. But never before have I watched as soldiers enticed children like mice into a trap and murdered them for sport."
- Christopher Hedges American journalist on assignment in Gaza
My comment was referring to Zionists who were apart of the holocaust, not Jews in general. Didn’t mean to come off that way
Well, personally I've started being very careful in making absolutely sure "The Jewish People" and "Zionism" are very clearly not treated as the same or even similar.
As for specifically the idea that Zionists who were victims of the Holocaust would behave otherwise, it has been my observation (and also History shows) that individuals who have been victimized or oppressed in their past aren't any better as persons than individuals who have not. In fact one of the ways in which Sociopaths are created is victimizing people when they are children.
Different people react very differently to being inflicted such suffering, and whilst for some that experience informs their Empathy towards others who might be made to suffer something similar (hence they do not want that to ever happen to others), others - such as people high on the Psychopath side of the spectrum and hence with little or no Empathy - might just add it to their toolset of things that can be done to other people to force them to do what they want.
One can't assume that being victimized or oppressed directly will make somebody a better person, much less when that happens indirectly (for example it happening to family members).