American black civil rights groups have alwaysALWAYS stood in 100% solidarity with the Palestinian people. They recognize that they're part of an identical struggle and demanding that black people rescind that solidarity because you want to do your genocide is the most psychotic unhinged murderous opinion you can have.
I have literally never wanted to be Stalin more than this exact moment.
At the bottom of left solidarity is that all beings stand to benefit from communism. We don't need scapegoats or bag-holders for our practices to work. Our theoretical solidarity is limitless. Even a Fascist who surrenders and submits to intensive re-education may possibly partake.
Right solidarity works like a Ponzi scheme, requiring victims and suckers. Anxiety about being on the losing end of the equation is built-in, and is the shared interest at the root of their intrinsically precarious solidarity, which requires a steady increase in the supply of externalized human sacrifices to maintain the "peace".
That is not entirely true. Dr. King, for example, spoke out in support of Israel. Had he not been murdered, I do not believe he would have maintained that support, but the fact remains that in the middle of the century, some movement leaders believed Israel to be a fundamentally progressive project, and were blind to the suffering of Palestinians.
I don’t want to give MLK a pass, but I was thinking about something similar: so many European communists in the 19th century had kinda bad takes on the USA (Marx and Engels included).
Obviously we are all products of our times, but I wonder if how much information we have at our disposal now (thanks to the internet) skews our perceptions of how easy it is to find out information, even things we are receptive to.
"You want security, cool just dont look over in this general area and ignore the screams. If you dont, it just shows you didnt actually deserve that safety you wanted"
The Jews who marched with BLM also protested the occupation, Michelle. They've done so again, and again, and again. If you want a zionist's take on BLM, ask Ron DeSantis.
Liberals like to pretend they've done something so they can threaten to stop doing things. It's like the liberal version of collective bargaining except they have done nothing.
It still trips me up so hard when people conflate Zionism and Jewishness because it runs so antithetical to my personal experiences.
The first time I heard about Palestine was over a decade ago when I was but a young kid. It was on a bumper sticker on my friend's mom's car. "Palestine: the worlds largest open air prison." Probably first saw it when I went to their place for latkes around Hanukkah. From then on I just assumed the default Jewish position was to free Palestine so it still makes me crazy when I see this conflation.
So tired of these "we'll remember" posts. Muslim voters will remember how the Dems handled this. Jewish people will remember people on Twitter were mean.
none of you libs remember anything*
Even if you did remember, it doesn't fucking matter. You can't do anything about it.
*Except that Russia intervened in the 2016 election