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Your take is so similar to what I was ranting about the other day- that being anti-genocide is now considered being antisemitic. I know not all Jews feel this way, so I don't want to stereotype. But what does that say about a people that my being compassionate and respectful of all innocent lives is considered an affront to what they stand for? It's surreal that we're talking about victims of the holocaust being the ones who are now synonymous with COMMITTING genocide. And much like the Nazis, this is official, state-sponsored genocide.

All that being said, I'm getting a bit frustrated by all the 'far-right' and 'extreme left' stuff the last several years. There was a time when it was easy to define those terms. Now we have the 'left' being more pro-war and interventionism than the 'right'. The left also used to be a fierce defender of free speech. Now they spend citizen's tax dollars on vast censorship and spying on innocent Americans, calling concerned doctors, scientists, and even parents 'domestic terrorists'.

If I am a person who wants clean air, water, and soil free of poisonous pesticides and herbicides; who cares about the lives of all innocent people regardless of which chunk of land they happen to reside in; who doesn't believe in the production (torture and murder) of sentient beings; who thinks that our individual liberties enshrined by the Constitution is the only thing holding back TPTB from having already enslaved us all; who loves all people and wants everybody to be accepted, but doesn't believe that trans rights need to smash other people's rights; and who understands that the medical industrial complex is as much about death and destruction for profits as the military industrial complex- then I am, apparently, an enemy to both the left and the right. Love, compassion, logic, truth, and justice have no place within either paradigm these days.

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