It’s this. I always was amazed that parents could ignore the suffering of children. I became a parent and felt that suffering even more acutely. But I’ve come to realize a great percentage of parents view their children as property.

Edit: So I guess this is somewhat of a contradiction that I don’t know how to explain. If liberal parents view their children as property, why wouldn’t they call out the abhorrence of Israel’s violence against them? Do they somehow perceive the relationship between oppressed parents and their oppressed children as different? Is there an instinct that tells them to reject the anguish of Gazan parents clutching their dismembered children? As if to tell them they will never feel this love for their own children, their own property?