If you are expecting to read my usual Left Coast column, I tell you now that you will be disappointed. I write, today, from a place of horror—about the massacre unleashed against civilians in Israel this past week, and about the morally cretinous bloodlust reaction some who fashion themselves as being on the “left” seem to have experienced in its aftermath, but also in despair at the ghastly collective punishments being unleashed from the air on Gaza residents by Netanyahu’s far-right government and the Israeli military.
if your politics have you conclude you can do nothing and deserve to die, even that you should do something that you then don’t do, you don’t have actionable politics. you have shit politics. hamas are not doing some 200 IQ definition stretching, they literally mean zionists because they need to go shoot people and need a functional definition of who they are at war with.
you having some martyr complex to excuse inaction does not mean it makes any sense to wish death on random ass civilians or literally babies. the point of whoever it was you read was almost certainly not that because you’re white you should be OK with being murdered, it’s that you should take action. when we talk about the attacks being an inevitable reaction to decades of occupation, that does not mean we think randos who were living where they were born deserved to die.
it’s just especially absurd because you’re only saying that because you know damn well you’re perfectly safe and that even in the event of a liberation movement they aren’t going ti try to murder you. you want to have these callous, unhinged takes and pretend you’re applying it equally to yourself when you know that won’t happen.