This diary, this message, is for all you good people out here who read daily. Those of you who were brought up with good principles and morals, those who had family members or friends who helped you grow up into a good person with their help, and through their kindness and teachings. This is for you who have, or had, grandparents or parents, or uncles and aunts who told you to be a good person daily, to look out for everyone, to value all life equally and help anyone who is need of help. Anyone.
You are good the way you are, that was the right upbringing. I hope you remain exactly that way until your last day.
But you have to be aware that there are many people who don’t share the same ethics, the same values, and they are actively trying to gaslight you and me, and many others, into believing that this upbringing is wrong and that not all life is equal. They are coming here and making us doubt our own sanity, making us question whether everything we are is wrong when we stand up and say that all life is equal, that all life is valuable. They are wrong – this is gaslighting – please don’t fall for it.
What they are trying to do is make us question ourselves and our own morals due to their work. You may ask yourself – am I wrong for speaking out for Palestinian civilians? These people may tell you that you are wrong, that if it is a military action and not a terrorist action, then civilian killings are ok. That it is ok to kill children if it’s war. And you may then question yourself and say – but a year ago, when Russia bombed a theater full of civilians and refugees, was that also ok then, because that was also military action? Is everything being done in Ukraine ok then because all of it is considered military action?
No, it is not, this is all just more gaslighting. You know what is right and wrong, do not doubt yourself.
The cost of innocent life lost in Gaza is now five or six times the numbers killed in the horrific Hamas attack that started this war, with no sign of slowing down. These were people too; these were children who were going to have lives. We have to look at them as human and treat them as human too, or we become less human ourselves.
Whatever reason someone tells you to justify what you already know is wrong, what you’ve known is wrong your whole life, it is a feeble attempt to gaslight you and make you doubt yourself. It’s politics, or worse, it is masked hatred with an agenda.
So, I implore you one last time, do not doubt yourselves, do not allow yourselves to be gaslit. Speaking out for all people is the right way. Indiscriminate killings of any civilians, any children, is wrong. There are no excuses and we should all be on the same side of this, as Americans.
And to those making excuses for genocide, and gaslighting good people…
SHAME. ON. YOU.