Well, we've hit a snag.

Who is "y'all" in this case?

See, by that sentence that started "I was assured y'all", you're in/out grouping and making an assumption that not only is there an out group for you to categorize people into it, but that I'm a part of that group.

Secondary to that, I've never seen a discussion where someone starts thinking in terms of "me vs them" that ended in anything but ugliness. I'm willing to accept that this might not go that way, but I'm dubious as fuck. So, if that's where you are, do us both a favor, don't respond to this, and just block me. I don't have time or patience for that bullshit.

Besides, it's why I so rarely engage in discussions about the subject matter of a post in this community. It isn't the place for even gentler debates, much less those that run hot.

That being said, if you're drawing parallels between a slave revolution in haiti and the Israeli pogrom going on currently, be aware that Israel is the slave masters in this case, not Palestinians. The direct equivalence would be if Palestinians got armed and took back their lives. Then, any remaining Israelis were put to death instead of shipping them back home.

See, you expect a degree of over reaction by oppressed and tortured people. It doesn't make it good, but it is totally understandable, and can even make good sense strategically.

To redraw the comparison, let's say that Palestinians, now running their own independent nation, had allowed their previous oppressors to remain for similar reasons. What are they supposed to do with them? integrate them into Palestinian culture? When their oppressive neighbors are still planning death and mayhem, and the Israelis inside their borders are just as likely to side with their oppressors?

What then? Send those people back to Israel, where their resentment and sense of entitlement will continue to be a problem? Or wipe them out and be done with it? Sending a message at the same time of "stay the fuck out".

Now, is that morally "good"? Fuck no, we're all supposed to take the gentler path when we can. But put yourself in the place of either peoples. Are you so certain of your moral superiority that you wouldn't make the strategic decision to eliminate a threat? A proven threat in both cases. Remember, the Haitians were coming off of centuries of slavery, rape, torture, and not just "regular" slavery, chattel slavery. The Palestinians? Holy fuck, for it being a relatively recent reoccurrance of violence against them, they've had a violent boot on their neck for generations too.

Me? I'm not that confident in my ability to pretend moral superiority in the same situation. Hell, I'm pretty damn confident I'd be willing to do the killing. I'm a nice person, but I am not a good person when it comes to protecting me and mine. Oh, I could be talked into holding off if leadership had a good plan in place, after all, the cycle of killing is hard to stop just because you were justified; that's how we get generational warfare.

It's also interesting to look at the ww2 comparison. Me? I have said publicly that the worst mistake humanity ever made was in letting nazis live. Some shit needs to be crushed as hard as possible. Not because it prevents the insanity from coming back, but to draw a line in the sand and say "nope, if you pick up that banner, you will share the same fate."

I think that's what the Haitians did back then. They said nope, fuck slave masters, and anyone thinking they can try it again.

Is it a moral good? Nope. But I am absolutely okay with an oppressed people making bad choices while they get their feet back under them.

Maybe you're a better person than me. Since I don't believe in a real deity, I suppose only the collective consciousness of humanity can be the judge of that. But I just can't find it in me to care that a bunch of ex slaves went hard. I don't blame them. Maybe if they hadn't been treated worse than animals, they would have had a chance to be the kind of people that don't make the choice. But they were, and I suspect that any group of people so treated would as well. Which seems to me a matter of ideals vs reality, not a pure morality