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If one recognizes the Palestinian people as equally human to oneself, one will experience no moral dilemma as one simultaneously condemns their slaughter, starvation, and displacement; and desires that Hamas-held hostages be released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, if one finds oneself making statements which include clauses such as “sad, but,” or “you’re ignoring the hostages” or “you hate [the state or people starting with ‘I’ or the people starting with ‘J’] when someone condemns the <\/a>genocide, one is experiencing the belief that human beings exist on a spectrum, and that certain tribal\/political\/ethnic\/religious groups of people are more human, more deserving of respect and dignity, than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has been covered before. “Black Lives Matter” does not need to be qualified with “All Lives Matter.” “Stop the genocide” does not need to be qualified with “bring home the hostages.” In demanding so, one’s bias is revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If one is not hearing “bring home the hostages,” then one has tuned out the roar of US dollars and weapons flooding the region, which are louder and more powerful than all of the voices calling for an end to the genocide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If one recognizes the Palestinian people as equally human to oneself, one will experience no moral dilemma as one simultaneously condemns their slaughter, starvation, and displacement; and desires that Hamas-held hostages be released. On the other hand, if one finds oneself making statements which include clauses such as “sad, but,” or “you’re ignoring the hostages” … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-reflection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paor1p-4v","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":743,"url":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/10\/the-paradox-of-the-poet\/","url_meta":{"origin":279,"position":0},"title":"the paradox of the poet","author":"Ryk Groetchen","date":"April 10, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"the paradox of the poet:in the constant attemptto make this human experiencemore legible and thus bring more closenessbetween one's closest relationsone often makes oneselfodd, unrecognizable to the very hearts one wants to join.it's not their fault:it's just their way.they are not actually doing anything. be gentle with the poets among\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "chronicle"","block_context":{"text":"chronicle","link":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/category\/chronicle\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":834,"url":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/22\/tldr-recognition-%e2%89%a0-choice\/","url_meta":{"origin":279,"position":1},"title":"tl:dr: recognition \u2260 choice","author":"Ryk Groetchen","date":"July 22, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Framing gender, sexual, and relational preferences as choices does real harm. 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