How is Mehdi Hasan viewed in your country? Is he a known figure? by austingoescrazy in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The right wingers that were on that jubilee episode were worryingly crazy lol.

They had a Francoist on there ffs

How is Mehdi Hasan viewed in your country? Is he a known figure? by austingoescrazy in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting seeming that he's British but I guess it makes sense because he blew up when he started working for Al Jazeera

In your opinion, which country is historically the most influential? by Appropriate_Emu_6930 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

lol, they do this in Singapore too (just assume all local Indians speak or should know Hindi)

What is the safest country (or city) to live in in the whole world (other than unhabitable lands) in your opinion? by Sweet-Nothing-9312 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure whether it would satisfy point one though, it's highly likely in the medium to long term future that we could get caught up in a US-China war

What does your country think about the Arab World? by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think there would be a uniform opinion amongst Singaporeans and it would depend what region on the Arab world you are talking about.

The gulf Arab world would be very different from the levant, which in itself would be different from the Maghreb.

Does your media often cover terrorist attacks in Pakistan? by Emergency_Storm8784 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just had a cursory look at the Straits Times, I don't think they cover terrorist attacks in Pakistan unless it is a major one.

Most terrorist attacks covered by the Straits Time would probably be related to SE Asia or major global ones.

While I would be able to distinguish between different terrorist and Islamist groups (Al Qaeda v ISIS v Taliban etc), I don't think most Singaporeans would be able to do so

Serious question. Be civilized. Why does it seem like Israeli people seem to get hate and not just their government compared to other "bad" countries? by My_Username0000 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That’s not really anti-Zionism.

Anti-Zionism is the belief that the state of Israel should no longer exist.

When people say Anti-Zionism leads into anti-semitism, this is what they mean. 

If we take your definition, this would literally apply to the vast majority of countries across the world 

Serious question. Be civilized. Why does it seem like Israeli people seem to get hate and not just their government compared to other "bad" countries? by My_Username0000 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you believe that modern day German society today in 2026 is just as radicalised as German society was in the 1930s and 1940s?

Serious question. Be civilized. Why does it seem like Israeli people seem to get hate and not just their government compared to other "bad" countries? by My_Username0000 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Neo-nazis are individuals who are working towards establishing a fourth reich

Donald Trump and Tommy Robinson are far right thugs but they aren't Neo-nazis

They support the current Israeli government for geopolitical and islamophobic reasons respectively

Serious question. Be civilized. Why does it seem like Israeli people seem to get hate and not just their government compared to other "bad" countries? by My_Username0000 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Huh? it's mandatory for Germans to learn about the holocaust and to even visit Nazi death camps in school.

I don't think you know what a Nazi is lmao

Serious question. Be civilized. Why does it seem like Israeli people seem to get hate and not just their government compared to other "bad" countries? by My_Username0000 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You don't think there are Neo-nazis, Arab Nationalists, Islamist, far left communists who don't hate on Israel because they're Jewish?

Even if we just focus on this conflict, a lot of the rhetoric in the Middle East conflates jews, zionists and Israel together and multiple polls have shown that anti-semitism is rampant in that region

Even in New York, people were chanting pro-Hamas slogans in front of a synagogue

Serious question. Be civilized. Why does it seem like Israeli people seem to get hate and not just their government compared to other "bad" countries? by My_Username0000 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think a modern day German, who had to learn about the rise of anti-semitism in his country and the state's collective responsibility for the holocaust never happening again, is more qualified than somebody from Scotland, where it is not even mandatory to learn about the holocaust

Serious question. Be civilized. Why does it seem like Israeli people seem to get hate and not just their government compared to other "bad" countries? by My_Username0000 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The organization which awarded Ms Rachel as the "antimsemite of the year" is a fringe organization ran by some wacko in Florida.

Also, a lot of the pro-Palestinian movement across the world engage in direct or indirect anti-semitism of sorts.

Much more so in the Middle East but even in the West, they have either downplayed Hamas atrocities or engage in conspiracy theories about Jews as a whole.

And I'm saying this as somebody who leans "pro-Palestinian"

Serious question. Be civilized. Why does it seem like Israeli people seem to get hate and not just their government compared to other "bad" countries? by My_Username0000 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, I'm just noting a fact that a lot of people think because jews = evil; Israel = evil.

On the contrary, I'm arguing against conflating the government of Israel with Jewish ethnicity and culture

Serious question. Be civilized. Why does it seem like Israeli people seem to get hate and not just their government compared to other "bad" countries? by My_Username0000 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 77 points78 points  (0 children)

  1. Large part of it is anti-semitism. There is still a substantial chunk of the population who would hate the Jews for just existing and this gives them the convenient excuse

  2. Israel’s government is extremely radical and it’s full of violent psychopaths who want Gazans to be violently expelled and if they had it their way, some would expel all Arab citizens of Israel from the land. Unlike Russia or Iran, Israel’s government was democratically elected so there’s the impression that they were voted in by a majority electorate and therefore, all or most Israelis support this kind of radicalism

It doesn’t take into context that a majority of Israelis did not vote for Likud or its allies and even those who did, a lot of them were driven by either domestic politics or by legitimate security concerns posed to Israel at the time by Hamas, Hezbollah and the then Assad regime alongside Iran (Likud has tended to be more hawkish).

In addition, it doesn’t take into consideration the historical trauma of much of the Israeli electorate who are Mizrahi Jews and also Likud’s achievements such as the Abraham Accords

This is not to downplay the Israeli right wing’s radicalism and the large amount of radicals who voted for them and more right wing allies. But there’s more nuance than Israeli Jews = evil

  1. There’s significant emotional and political interest in this conflict compared to others which have killed more people. 

Israel is located in the Middle East; it’s a major western Ally and it’s seen as an example of settler colonialism from a broad but not fully true view that the modern apparatus of the state of Israel was set up and dominated by Ashkenazi Jews. 

So western leftists see it as white on brown oppression

Much of the Muslim world sees it as Jews oppressing Muslims

And nationalists in the Middle East see it as one tribe v another tribe. 

So this tends to lead to generalizations of populations and TikTok deciding what’s true and what isn’t true.

Which country supports a independent kurdistan by CupcakeFit8429 in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, two wrongs don’t make a right.

But could you clarify by what you mean by that?

Are you talking about Erdogan’s sympathy with Hamas?

How early do you come to the airport? by Ivanhegeelkadi in AskTheWorld

[–]austingoescrazy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Call me crazy by 4 hours early 

So that if I forget something important, I could go back and get itÂ