So it’s okay for a Palestinian-American citizen to not vote for Biden due to moral reservations over what Biden’s signing off on in Gaza, but a white citizen doing the same in solidarity with the Palestinian-Americans, and Palestinians generally, is bad? This says to me, he doesn’t actually think it’s acceptable for Palestinian-Americans to not vote for Biden, but won’t outright say it because he knows it’ll undermine lib virtue signaling.
Liberal deployment of IDpol.
Also some right wing, liberal mixture of nationalism, racism, Islamophobia and classism or anti-socialism.
Nationalism as in “why you would ever show solidarity with a foreign people for any other reason than familial relations or monetary gain? You should only care about America!”
Racism, I mean, come on.
Islamophobia he comes off as a Zionist or at minimum a Zionist defender which is definitely Islamophobic. Also disregards non-Arab Muslims in the US and worldwide who also show solidarity with Palestine for religious reasons.
Classist or anti-socialist because of the nationalistic viewpoint basically. “You are in the labor aristocracy and should show solidarity with your fellows here and in aligned nations, not with the oppressed in other nations.” This theme runs through most US and I guess western politicians generally. They won’t use those words explicitly, but the meaning is always pretty clear. Also just a condescending tone in the wording.
“Wow. You guys are sooooooo dumb! Of course Bibi wants Cheeto man to win! You stupid leftists are giving him what he wants!” meanwhile Biden fully sanctions the genocide Outside of direct US military intervention or nuke deployment, I don’t really how Trump could possibly worse on this issue and many others like US involvement in Ukraine.
There’s a definite bit of implicit Thatcherism going on. There is no alternative to the brutal, settler colonial war machine, so take the option that puts a respectable face on said machine.
Taking that train of thought to the last station… wouldn’t the argument boil down to voting Trump? If the only option is the brutal war machine then we might as well make sure the face of that machine is as disgusting and honest as possible to hopefully snap Americans out of their complacency.
“Lesser evil”? It takes a liberal-level of a chutzpah to describe Biden that way as he empowers, enables, and arms the Israelis as they openly commit genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Its fucking sickening to see someone describe what Biden is doing as the “lesser evil” option. There is no lesser evil. Palestinians are being indiscriminately killed, maimed, and ethnically cleansed in Gaza right now. Am I supposed to believe that somehow the Biden admin actually cares about ending the genocide with their occasional throw away soundbites?
Looking forward to libs acting like they ever cared for Palestinians when Trump gets elected and then chiding people who didn’t vote by saying that the genocide wouldn’t be happen if we had voted for Biden. I’ll support any white “slactivist” not voting for Biden over anyone who acts like they care about Palestinians voting for Biden who is actively killing them right now.
“But Trump would empower, enable, and arm the genocide even worse. At least Biden sends them a get well soon card and a fruit basket after he bombs them.”
Voters using issues they’ve become aware of within the last year to make decisions at the polls is un-american, it’s not fair!
There’s another layer of really disgusting chauvinism in this I can’t totally articulate. Dude clearly views Palestinians/probably any Arab American as being motivated by emotion, but the rational white people can rise above and observe the facts and logic of the situation. Infantilizing Palestinians but dressing it up in this “I hear you” language, but still genuinely believing they’re stupid for being against being genocided.
“Genocide is only bad if it’s happening to me”, and other things libs genuinely believe
