Lately, we've told you about people tearing down the flyers of kidnapped persons in Israel. We even told you about one Dad putting his own son on leave after video emerged of him tearing down flyers. It's hard to understand why people would do such a thing. These are innocent women and children, mostly, and there is a need to continue to remind people they are still being held hostage. One account @aelfred_d (Aelfred the Great) offered a thread explaining his theory and it is a good read.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the people ripping down the posters of the missing and hostage Israelis. This will probably be a little convoluted, as I’m still musing.
— Aelfred The Great (@aelfred_D) October 25, 2023
Usually, I can see how someone thinks or does certain things, even if I find them evil or horrific.
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I can get into their head—if I accept X premises and Y narrative, I can understand them. Still evil but coherent.
— Aelfred The Great (@aelfred_D) October 25, 2023
But the tearing down of the posters has stopped me cold. How could anyone do this? Why would anyone do this? In addition to being awful, I can’t make it cohere.
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I now have a theory. The posters make the people tearing them down ashamed. The posters are a reminder of purely wicked actions taken by one side. No nuance, no both sides.
— Aelfred The Great (@aelfred_D) October 25, 2023
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This makes the supporters of that side ashamed. Then their shame turns into anger at the proximate cause of that shame. They hate and resent the posters—they are a threat to those people’s worldview and self-image.
— Aelfred The Great (@aelfred_D) October 25, 2023
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In fact, the posters feel like a cunning trick by Israel—after all, they *are* a crafty bunch, no? Yeah, there’s probably some scam going on, this whole thing is bs, if the posters are gone, if the trick is removed, they can stop feeling this way.
— Aelfred The Great (@aelfred_D) October 25, 2023
So get rid of the posters.
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Maybe I’m overthinking and many people are just cruel and inhuman, but I’m trying to understand it from the lens that most people like to think they’re on the side of good and then proposing a possible psychological account.
— Aelfred The Great (@aelfred_D) October 25, 2023
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Many people do not want to face the evil. Looking at it is too much to bear.
When Leftist anti-semitism is your religion all heretical material must be destroyed.
— Whateverdear (@WhateverDearest) October 25, 2023
It’s not that complicated. The people in those posters are not “missing” and they can’t be “found”. The only point of the posters is to show Jews as victims and Hamas as victimizers. Which enrages the people who see things as the other way around.
— Scrub Jay (@DystopiaEsq) October 25, 2023
It is a very clever psyop.…
Then someone shows up in the comments to confirm people really are heartless and irredeemable.
It's the equivalent of blocking somebody who proves you wrong on twitter, or changing the subject when you're losing an argument. It's all an effort to hide the fact that your position is indefensible. A product of cognitive dissonance, or maybe a lack thereof.
— Smells Like Teen Statism (@BlueEightySix) October 25, 2023
I've long said the Left views compassion like they do economics, as a zero-sum game. They don't want people thinking of the plight of Israelis, because it's time not spent thinking about groups they care about.
— Fungusaur (@Fungusaur) October 25, 2023
The Left doesn't want to be reminded of anything they don't like and they can't stomach any detractors.
I posited this a few days ago. I think the guilt is terrible. People know when things are wrong. Some refuse to change and instead lash out at the easiest target.
— Fall Otter Deb 🦦🍁 (@livefreeordeb) October 25, 2023
Facing the fact all your perceived notions may just be wrong is indeed a difficult thing to do.
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