As usual, the libs have created an impossible to escape rhetorical hole. They can’t criticize this except to point out that’s it’s racist, which can easily be countered by leaning on the consensus that even the idea of Palestinian freedom and autonomy is antisemitic. They’ve already made this particular racist act completely acceptable by spending several decades acting like Jewish and Palestinian lives are mutually exclusive. The libs also can’t critique racism in general because then they have to act like tankies and critique how capitalist power is maintained. They can say racism is bad, but they can’t say why. Rightwingers will just say it’s good, and the reason it’s good is because it punishes the scapegoat.
Sorry. This is just a small brain dump. I occasionally see some new aspect of the complete irrationality of the environment I’m living in and I want to articulate it. In this case it’s the constant assertion that like capitalism, there is no alternative to Israeli violence in Gaza.
it’s not genocide, it’s a war against hamas -> those weren’t innocents, they were secretly hamas -> all palestinians are hamas -> this shit
As usual, the libs have created an impossible to escape rhetorical hole. They can’t criticize this except to point out that’s it’s racist, which can easily be countered by leaning on the consensus that even the idea of Palestinian freedom and autonomy is antisemitic. They’ve already made this particular racist act completely acceptable by spending several decades acting like Jewish and Palestinian lives are mutually exclusive. The libs also can’t critique racism in general because then they have to act like tankies and critique how capitalist power is maintained. They can say racism is bad, but they can’t say why. Rightwingers will just say it’s good, and the reason it’s good is because it punishes the scapegoat.
Sorry. This is just a small brain dump. I occasionally see some new aspect of the complete irrationality of the environment I’m living in and I want to articulate it. In this case it’s the constant assertion that like capitalism, there is no alternative to Israeli violence in Gaza.