Biden says dissent must not lead to disorder and his support for Israel remains unwavering amid college protests | CNN Politics
Biden says dissent must not lead to disorder and his support for Israel remains unwavering amid college protests | CNN Politics
President Joe Biden on Thursday reiterated his support for Israel as protests against the war in Gaza spread on college campuses across the country.
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can't agree with your methods of direct action;" who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a "more convenient season."
MLK jr. on those who prefer order to justice, from the opening paragraph of Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
Biden: "I dare you to not vote for me".
I wish he would just stop taking AIPAC money already and stop enraging a significant portion of his voter base. I would very much like to avoid the local genocide that will happen if the conservatives seize control in 2025.
Go ahead, don't vote, see what happens.
Exactly. I'm definitely going to vote for Biden. But that doesn't mean I'm not pissed as hell about being coerced into voting for a genocide facilitator.
You can't prevent a genocide elsewhere by allowing one where you live.
I wish more of the movement realized that.
That is a great way to get a rapist traitor in office again...
So would he be arrested if he went to a private university and said exactly this?
He's not going to be able to please everyone here. I wish politicians would be less afraid to take a hard line sometimes. Instead, it's calculated messaging that will fool the most people.
Gordian knot. He doesn't want to be anti-free speech or anti-protest, but he also can't tolerate violence or bigotry.
doing the right thing and a leader catching flak is supposed to be part of being a leader
if Biden would have done enough and not quartered assed everything and put the burden of everything on the citizens he would not even have to put effort in to win like any candidate
As much as the presidency does have sway in politics, we also have a house of representatives just literally not hearing bills, is on Speaker number 2, with threats of speaker number 3, and they can't even get the votes for new speakers, they literally cannot pass a bill about eliminating daylight savings time that has been sitting for nearly 3 years.
Like the presidency does have power but exercising overriding power is just going to open the door for the next republican president to take that power and just fucking run with it and destroy as much as they can.
I will agree there is a lot more Biden and his cabinet could have done in over the last 3 years but compared to the shitshow of the last guy, I'd rather take what we currently have over that cluster fuck.
Ah yes, countering anti-semitism, bigotry and violence by...
-checks notes-
..arresting peaceful jewish student protestors and the multi-faith coalition supporting them who are being attacked by violent zionist counter-protestors.