Our inability/unwillingness to recognize giant Evils
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When we imagine worst kind evil, why many of our minds are trained to imagine only Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Polpot, … but not to all of Empire 2.0's presidents & 1.0's prime ministers — contemporary & past, not heads of European states that [settler-]colonised so many societies, robbed them of resources, massacred millions to hundreds of millions & destabilized them to serve colonial & imperial interests?

Some of these goons have committed comparable Hitler has committed, collectively committed orders more crimes than Hitler. Still why we dont see them as evil — even tho, some of them act like Hitlers of our time. Why?

That question definitely has many answers, but one answer that cannot be discounted is Western colonization of minds all around the world.

Hamas has not even committed a tiny fraction of crimes Genocidal Entity/Genocidal Empire/Genocidal West has committed & are committing right now, but Western Left & Left all over the world have endless slack to cut for these organised thugs than for Hamas.

Even so called "leftists" & even fellow so-called "anarchists" have ample slack cut for Empire & rest of West. Why?

My point is not about whether Hamas are good guys or not. But how we judge Evil & why we grant far bigger Evils infinite slack? Are they too big to consider evil, where as others are not big enough, so we can condemn?

Who is worse?

Someone who slaps you (or) Someone who murders you?

Is an occasional wife beater worse than a deranged sadist who murders a whole family & takes pleasure in it?

Do note that this is not electoral lesser-evil scam ruling class runs. In this case, Hamas/any other resistance group did not chose to be in that position. They are forced to be in that position & thats the only reason they could survive however long they could survive. In electoral scam, the so called "lesser evil" always can chose not to not be evil (often they are not even lesser evil post election), but it deliberately choses to be evil, so you are left with no real choice, which is completely different in the case of Palestine. So, this is lesser evil case, but this one actually have credible defendable lesser-evil thing unlike undefendable electoral lesser-evil thing.

Then why do we have these inverted value system when it comes to Hamas vs Genocidal Entity, Hamas vs Genocidal Empire, Hamas vs Genocidal West?

Hamas are not good guys, but they are the only form of resistance (despite all their crimes against Palestinians) that could not be crushed fully by Entity (they could not be crushed because of their deep community roots — even if they were criminals and that was the only reason why they survived while most other groups were either coopted/rendered harmless by Genocidal Entity thru Execution, Kidnapping, Blackmail, …) & was not corrupted like so called "Secular" Palestinian Authority — who are nothing but Entity's mafia, who were keeping Palestinians under permanent subjugation.

Why do most of us have this naked hypocrisy when it comes to the crimes of strong? I am not talking about shit- & fash-libs, but about so called "leftists" too, whose hypocrisy is equally visible to anyone who pay attention to some of the justifications you hear from them — in this specific instance.

We dont have to be on their side, but atleast what we should do is recognize the legitimacy of those are not operating in the same social & political systems as we live under. If all of us are put under the same system Palestinians are put under, most of us wont turn out any better.

Just like how we have infinite bandwidth to excuse crimes of Empire, we have exactly the same hypocrisy when it comes to the crimes of State. We treat someone who steals a tiny thing in a shop more cruelly than we treat Big Thieves (Capitalists) & Big Thugs (Politicians & State goons).

Hegemonic West not only wrote most of recorded history, they also colonized own imagination & hijacked our values with the value system of the institutions they imposed. Even those who read the versions of history written from the point of view of oppressed, even those people have infinite slack for the strong.

This colonization of mind is not just unique to those within mainstream, but those who know the alternative interpretation of real world.

Despite all the crimes Empire has committed & is committing, why do those who know better still dont act like it is Evil — except say in rhetoric? But the same people will go overboard when it comes to Hamas. Why?

When we compare the crimes of Hamas side by side with Empire/Entity/West & most so called "Democratic" States, they look like saints, but we have different scales to judge each group.

Thanks to Western hegemony, which perpetuated this value system all around the world embedded in so called "Nation–State", we are conditioned thru out our life to not see the bigger evil i.e State & Capital for what they are.

Our conditioning is so complete that we are more outraged about lesser evils, than the biggest evils in society i.e States & Empires.

My point is not that we should not be outraged about lesser evil. We should be. But can we atleast add context to every situation to recognize the underlying forces that bring people to the place where they are at, not to justify them but to understand first & then pass judgement — one way or another.

This hypocrisy is even more palpable in Left circles as we too have internalized the value system of statusquo to a point where many of us lost our ability to identity evil, degrees of evils, ability to take into account the circumstances under which various groups of people are forced to operate under in real-world.

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