Part of having common sense is seeing and hearing an undeniable truth right in front of you and believing what you're taking in is reality. For instance, if you see a video that features a person or group murdering an innocent person or people, then you can safely say that this person or group are murderer. It's that simple.
But there are a great deal of people out there who aren't filled with common sense. They either long ago abandoned it or had it stolen from them thanks to a mixture of preyed-upon ignorance, bias, and gullibility.
This is how we arrived at the common phenomenon of "pro-Palestine" protesters in Western countries.
You've likely watched some of these "protesters" and wondered how someone can become so brainwashed as to support a legitimately genocidal group, especially one that is so open and proud of their genocidal tendencies. The answer to this is always multi-faceted. A strong mix of peer pressure, environmental influence, consumption of biased media, and an immediate belief in what authority figures say is usually a perfect recipe for a complete abandonment of reality.
Many of the youth taking part in what they think is a "ceasefire" movement have been told it's one by people like these popular influencers. People like Hasan Piker, a person with millions of followers and a very rabid fanbase willing to say the quiet part out loud that Piker won't, actively tell bald-faced lies about what terrorist groups like Hamas are up to.
A brilliant video was released that shows these popular influencers preying on the ignorance of their viewers and manipulating them into believing falsehoods paired with terrorist leaders confirming the very thing the influencers are lying about.
Top political commentators of our generation! pic.twitter.com/BgBaZsZbCa
— 🇮🇱 Stardust 🇵🇸 (@tweetsfromstar) November 11, 2023
Even if one were to see these Hamas leaders admit up front that their aim is genocide, the "protesters" would settle on the excuse given to them by their influencer and professor puppet masters. They would say that while that group might want the complete destruction of Israel and its people, that's not what they personally are protesting for.
They do this because their back is against a proverbial wall. These kids currently live in a world where hyper-politicization is married to a reliance on emotional responses. A lack of emotional maturity and the horror of being a pariah amongst your peers has caused many to perform Olympic-level mental gymnastics in an effort to still justify cheering on the side that is actively trying to kill Jewish people with a reasoning not too dissimilar at all from the Nazis they profess to hate.
Many are either trapped by their ignorance or fear of being rejected.
But it's here that someone's bravery will be tested. They can either do the right thing, walk away from the "protests," and support the people actually trying to stop the genocide and bring order and even freedom to the people of Gaza, or they can sit mired in their cowardice as they continue to cheer on evil out of their fear of it, hoping that of all the people it consumes, it consumes them last.
As Douglas Murray pointed out to Piers Morgan during an interview, there's not really any excuse left to continue supporting the "pro-Palestine" movement which, when you rip away the window dressing, is really just a pro-Hamas movement.
"Here's a challenge, Piers," began Murray. "If you decided to go on some kind of march and in week one you discovered that you had the BNP (British Nationalist Party) along your side calling, for instance, for the murder of all black people. Would you not wonder whether or not you should go on week two, and would you not drop out by about week three?"
Piers Morgan tries a bit of "not all protestors are pro-Hamas" with @DouglasKMurray. It does not go well... pic.twitter.com/S7zdveRW9r
— Stephen Knight 🎙️ (@GSpellchecker) November 8, 2023
(READ: There Is No More Excuse for 'Pro-Palestine' Protesters to Not Be Considered 'Pro-Hamas')
At this point, even if you are ignorant about how the war began (and many of these kids actually are) there's still enough evidence in the protesters cheering on terrorist groups and openly advocating for the genocide of the Jewish people for you to know that it's time to leave the protests.
So the reasoning behind why these kids are still supporting Hamas, even if indirectly, isn't a question of ignorance...at least not at this point. Now, it's a question of how cowardly they are and how unwilling they are to defy their peers and walk away from them. At such a young age, it does take some show of courage to speak the truth to a rabidly emotional group of friends, but courage is needed in order to do the right thing very often.
