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The Arabs who live in Gaza and the West Bank are weak despite being the beneficiaries of countless billions of dollars in aid from the West. They are weak because, despite that largesse, and despite the almost absurdly generous treatment they have been accorded by Israel–not Egypt or Jordan–they have the worst culture of any group of people in the world. Not only that, they have deliberately used weakness as a business plan, raking in billions in foreign aid by keeping people penned up for generations in “refugee camps", while diverting as much money as possible to tunnels and weapons for terrorist attacks.
The same is true of some other “oppressed” groups. For example, American blacks are indeed arrested, prosecuted, and convicted of crimes in disproportionate numbers. That is entirely because they commit serious crimes in disproportionate numbers. So failure in life is not necessarily due to oppression or exploitation. In fact, it is rarely due to oppression or exploitation.
The truly oppressed these days are, for example, Nigerian Christians who are murdered, kidnapped and raped by Muslims; Uighers who are condemned to slavery by the Communist Party; Israelis who are murdered by “Palestinian” terrorists or forced to flee their homes by Hezbollah’s rockets; and, on a vastly smaller scale, conservative faculty members and Jewish students who are forced into literal or figurative hiding by campus liberals.
Marx was a bad man and a terrible scholar. What he was, was an irrational and hate-filled political activist. His 21st century adherents, whether they know it or not, are following in his footsteps.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/the-power-of-weakness.php