She did a fundraiser for Palestine and they told her that she didn’t give a shit about Palestinian children.

Now people who have no idea what BlockOut is are just seeing Miss Rachel crying and saying shit like, “who made my coparent cry?” and “we ride at dawn” and those videos are getting more views than her fundraiser did.

  • YearOfTheCommieDesktop [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    6 months ago

    She did a fundraiser for Palestine and they told her it was too little too late and that she didn’t give a shit about Palestinian children.

    A kids content creator using their platform to fundraise for a worthy cause that is (though wrongly,) seen as highly controversial and political is great. Its not revolutionary, but its productive and its normalizing in a way that politics-focused people speaking out is not. Why the hell was she being harassed?

    • itappearsthat@hexbear.netEnglish
      25·
      6 months ago

      I basically disagree, cultural boycotts are part of BDS. Support for israel has to become radioactive. People need to know that if they publicly support israel there is a significant proportion of the population that will not talk to them again.

  • makotech222 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    12·
    6 months ago

    I’m guessing BlockOut is one of those Front groups to make pro-palestinian supporters look incredibly annoying to laymen, like PETA.

    • itappearsthat@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      PETA is not a front group to make animal rights activists look annoying to laypeople. For evidence of this I point to the reaction of comrades on this website when they are confronted by the numerous animal rights activists also on this website. The problem lies not with the people advocating for the rights of animals. Carnists know their position is untenable so the only thing they can muster is a vague manufactured “annoyance” group hug to reassure each other they don’t actually have to rethink anything.

        • seeking_perhaps [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          4·
          6 months ago

          I think they make mistakes, but are overall effective at bringing animal rights issues to the masses. Interested in hearing why you have that opinion.

          • DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
            7·
            6 months ago

            I have heard literally dozens of instances of PETA doing actually fucked up things to animals (i.e. “freeing” shelter pets… to be euthanized amerikkka-clap ), so, seems like they fucking suck to me. I’ve never heard anyone IRL who likes animals say anything good about them, but rather that they support the SPCA instead because they don’t do fucked up shit to the animals they claim to want to protect

            • itappearsthat@hexbear.netEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              “freeing” shelter pets… to be euthanized

              I’m assuming you’re referring to how PETA shelters euthanize some of the pets they get. I encourage you flex your big marxist brain and reflect on why that might be for more than ten seconds before reading the next paragraph.

              So-called “no-kill” shelters only are able to operate as such by being very choosy and only taking pets that are very likely to be adopted. Think young cute pets without behavioral problems or expensive diseases. PETA shelters accept all animals. So what can you do once the number of unwanted animals exceeds capacity? I would like you to tell me.

              • Speaker [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
                3·
                6 months ago

                Keep applying that Marxist brain and one also eventually comes to understand that the existence of domesticated beings as we know them today (mutants bred for the explicit purpose of labor, companionship, etc., exclusively for human exploitation) is at odds with veganism.

                While it would be bad if they were doing the cartoonishly evil thing implied by such complaints (ooh, they’re kidnapping and killing ol’ Scraps!), it is perfectly ideologically consistent to avoid reproducing the exploitation of these beings, shorten their suffering when no other option is available, and otherwise work toward the abolition of domestication as currently practiced.

                I live with two dogs, both aging and with rapidly diminishing quality of life. Soon, I will have to decide how dignified their deaths will be, because humans have colonized even death. If you (not you, specifically, but generic readers) believe that PETA relishes the reality forced on them by puppy mills, irresponsible reproduction practices, and the normalization of exploitation, I don’t think you’ve thought about this enough.

                • seeking_perhaps [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  2·
                  6 months ago

                  Yes, this is why spay and neuter and trap, neuter, release programs are so important. We need to also be actively reducing the population of pets while caring for the ones that currently exist as best we can. And sometimes the “best” option is to euthanize, but it is definitely not a decision taken lightly.

            • seeking_perhaps [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              I encourage you to read up more on the killing animals thing. They essentially do it out of compassion, because most of the animals that end up at PETA are cases shelters are not equipped to handle and thus require a higher rate of euthanization. Even our local humane society has a relatively high euthanization rate, but it’s because most of the other local shelters are no-kill and so their worst cases get sent there. I am friends with serious animal activists and they critically support PETA, though are part of different orgs themselves. Like I said, they have made mistakes like any other large org, but I think they have been a net good for animal rights.

              https://www.peta.org/features/peta-kills-animals-truth/

    • TheDoctor [they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      6·
      6 months ago

      It’s not a formal group so much as a couple prominent people giving guidelines of action to an amorphous blob of people. Y’know, internet activism.

  • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    Ok but Ms Rachel has my axe at her disposal. Where do I go to defend her honor?

    Like actually though she taught my kid sign language I’m way too simple for that. I would honestly get into a physical altercation over this I think

  • Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tubeEnglish
    10·
    6 months ago

    JFC, I assume these blockout losers are a bunch of piece of shit radlibs that wouldn’t know real activism if I beat them over the head with it?

    We should never punish someone for using their platform to advocate for the end of a genocide. They do so at a great personal cost, as being anti genocide is actually a controversial position (as insane as that sounds and is).