This goes much deeper than most think. Even when liberals are trying to make points that are pro feminist, anti racist, pro LGBT, anti sexist, etc, they just straight up copy right wing or fascist talking points and change the target. For example, ever seen the posts by liberals comparing men to skittles, of which some are poisonous, to try make a feminist point about women feeling unsafe?
It was originally a Trump Jr tweet.
This is yet another difference between liberal and leftist rhetoric, and the difference between liberal identity politics and left wing equality and social justice. Leftists actually attempt to address systemic issues and inequalities in society, liberals do window dressing of right wing rhetoric to try and make some kind of point, and fail. This is why tying social justice wins to liberal institutions like the Democratic party in the United States is doomed to fail, like it already has with abortion rights. Because liberals fundamentally do not care about these issues. The Democrats are feeding from the same trough as the Republicans in terms of rhetoric and policy. It should come as no surprise when the Democrats abandon and fail to fight for social justice.
That, but I also think there’s some sort of topsy turvy logic wherein modern Palestinian liberation movements are somehow a direct continuation of the Roman Empire. Like there’s a straight line from Pontius Pilate to Hamas.
Hamas wants to kill illegal genocidal settlers, many of which happen to be Jews. But thanks for implying that all Jews are genocidal settlers, real pro-Semitic of you Joe.
Like the Hindu nationalists, it’s not about loving Jews, it’s about hating Muslims.
A few years ago a christian organisation in US did a poll on how aware the christian population was on the church's teachings or something like that. MoBlack (anarchist-communist anime blogger that wrote many Medium articles breaking apart Shield Hero) pointed out that while people generally answered questions regarding sex and abortion 'correctly' (as in they were aware of the church's stance), when it came to things like "are children born innocent" (correct answer: No. All children are born with original sin because Adam and Eve ate the fruit.) only like 30% could match the church's stance.
The conclusion he came to was that the super religious people are not actually super religious. They are just very political about their religion.
Link: https://archive.moblack.xyz/1585278114569019393/
Yeah when I heard that... crazy they let this man speak openly still.
His logic is quite literally (and to be kinda fair this is also Israeli logic and since they've been in a 69 suckfest I guess it makes sense he repeats this Nazi shit) that all Muslims hate Jews (why? He'll never have an answer or evidence for that) and Hamas is just the modern militant arm of a Muslim tradition of genociding Jews.
It seems ol' Joey's pudding brain never learned that it was Christian men who killed 6 million Jews in Europe... not Muslims. He's basically engaging in a form of Holocaust revisionism which is a form of Holocaust denialism... while speaking Holocaust Remembrance Day.
I mean, Goddamn Joey. Maybe it's time to go to sit in the recliner, let the flashing lights flicker on the moving picture box, pick chocolate or vanilla pudding for a snack today, and drift off.
It’s an example of the background radiation of evangelical Christianity poisoning Americans’ brains - even those diametrically opposed to Christianity. Jews and Arabs have always fought because that’s what the Old Testament is all about and the Old Testament is literal historical truth.
We're going to see the most vile and vicious Islamophobic propaganda since 9/11 this US election cycle, aren't we? How long before the Democrats and Biden run though George W Bush's list of talking points? I'm waiting for Biden to tell Israelis to go out shopping in remembrance of October 7.
Perhaps Trump will outflank him by performatively saying the whole thing has been badly mishandled by Netanyahu, and pretend he isn't also a huge zionist?
On a completely unrelated note. Does anyone ever get the urge to grab someone by the neck and punch them in the face hard enough to break through their skull and into their brains? Just asking.
No way to see this other than that Israel has gotten a green light to do whatever they want in Rafah since Biden is justifying the atrocities in advance.
Not that I took the talk about red lines seriously, but it is amazing to see how quickly Biden folds.