Coleman Hughes is one of the most thoughtful young philosophers out there.
I've followed him since soon after his graduation from Stanford, majoring in philosophy. I've bought and read his first book, "The End of Race Politics. Arguments for a Colourblind America", which he talked about at a Ted Conference, and gained a whole lot of attention and controversy. I wrote about that whole fascinating episode here.
I find him a refreshing voice that cuts through cant and drivel, attacking nonsense on both the right and the left. He's been a guest on left-wing shows like the View, CNN, The Young Turks, and on conservative shows and podcasts like Joe Rogan's, Dave Rubin's and Jimmy Dore's.
In this video of his thoughts, above, he says he says there are "good guys" and "bad guys" and then admits that that sounds rather "cartoonish". Well, I don't know. I also see good guys and bad guys -- have said so for years -- even if the good guys sometimes do bad things. War crimes happen on both sides. But it's only Israel that has 1,000 of its own soldiers in prison awaiting trial for alleged war crimes. Hamas most certainly do not. As Coleman says, Hamas is one big apparatus of War Crimes.
He also notes that while in most wars, war crimes are committed against the enemy, in the case of the Gaza war, the war crimes by Hamas are mostly committed against its own citizens. For which it has zero duty of care and zero sympathy for.
At the end he talks of the issue of Genocide, declaring it to be the "most ridiculous" of the charges against Israel. I agree. Nothing it does fits either the definition or the practice of genocide. Consider that if Israel had wanted to commit genocide, it could have wiped out Gazans in a few weeks. It did not do so. That's pretty much QED right there. I've also posted Harvard's law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz's piece on genocide, here.
But do listen to Coleman, as he expresses things so much more clearly and eloquently than I do.
