PugJesus@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoUtterly fucking bizarrelemmy.worldimagemessage-square119fedilinkarrow-up1373arrow-down163
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minus-squareswitchboard_pete@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·3 months agoso you agree that a group can do bad things, or even be on the whole bad by a very wide margin, but still do something good worthy of praise?
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoYes? Is that supposed to be a gotcha?
minus-squareswitchboard_pete@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·3 months ago If isis starts attacking israel, that does not mean you need to support isis… it was a response to this, which in the context of the original post, has a sentiment that directly contradicts what you just agreed with
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agoAcknowledging that a terrible organization has done something good doesn’t mean I support them.
minus-squareswitchboard_pete@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agothe meme never mentions supporting houthis, it says praising them acknowledging somebody has done something good is praising them hence “If isis starts attacking israel, that does not mean you need to support isis…” is a bad response
so you agree that a group can do bad things, or even be on the whole bad by a very wide margin, but still do something good worthy of praise?
Yes? Is that supposed to be a gotcha?
it was a response to this, which in the context of the original post, has a sentiment that directly contradicts what you just agreed with
Acknowledging that a terrible organization has done something good doesn’t mean I support them.
the meme never mentions supporting houthis, it says praising them
acknowledging somebody has done something good is praising them
hence “If isis starts attacking israel, that does not mean you need to support isis…” is a bad response