No, that is creepy and you have just normalized it.
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Ok, mines are crucial to stopping the Russian offensive so...
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Corporations embrace fascism as shallowly as they did DEIA and queer acceptance, but all it takes is a couple of inches of depth to drown if you fall down and become vulnerable.... which is something the businessmen and oligarchs, distracted by the incredible gains in wealth they are accruing from the firesale of the foundations of society torn down by fascists, only perceive as a slight annoyance, an ankles deep rising of water, oh no my fancy leather dress shoes are ruined!
Anti-zionism is not anti-semitism for a very simple reason, being against the apartheid state of Israel and its genocide of Palestinians has nothing to do with being against Jews or Judaism. They are seperate concepts period, end of story.
Jews or Israelis make a strange argument when they call someone from the US like me anti-semitic for being against Israel's actions. This is a circus people who grew up in the post 9/11 US know intimately, Israel is the modern post cold war colonialism of the US echoed into a different context.
Just because I do not intimately understand the full vibrant depth of history that forms the context that the countless weapon systems, bombs and associated training FROM MY COUNTRY are used to erase doesn't mean I do not understand the process of erasure and have an indisputable stake in maintaining my moral integrity given the moral weight falls directly on my country for providing the machinery for erasure.
Scholars writing about this time will draw a direct throughline from US colonialism and genocide to the genocide of Palestinians, which isn't to say Israel does not also uniquely bear a terrible weight here that will last far longer than any of our lives.
I am against anti-semitism, I despise it. So is every anti-Zionist worth their salt and if I know one thing about the activists who show up to champion these causes it is that they will not tolerate people who violate basic human decency no matter if they are on their team or not... that is PRECISELY why they showed up to the protest in the first place. Focus on them as your enemy at your peril for the rightwing is turning very clearly on judaism as a scapegoat even as we speak....
“It seems pretty explicitly pro-colonization and protecting of the ideology that genocide and ethnic cleansing are okay for certain groups to perform as long as it upholds your own personal or capitalistic interests,” Green, a Grindr user I spoke to who also saw this error message, told me. “It’s gross. And to put energy towards protecting a blatantly bigoted ideology and not put the same energy towards protecting minority groups is pathetic. So fuck Grindr and its inability to intersect queer oppression with the oppression of other groups.”
Don't mistake these words for arguing this is too complicated to understand, that we must all learn even more divisions and categories... no this is the opposite. Our voices call for a simplicity of kindness, which recognizes the foundational humanity of all before any further judgement, a virtue honored by all the worlds major religions for obvious reasons.
Never heard of the news source, but it seems like a decent one.
Never heard of it but it seems like a good semi-progressive news source.
My generation grew up in the US being condescendingly laughed at by older more cynical people saying over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again that Young People Never Vote So Stop Trying To Be Optimistic And Push For Better Things.
Now Cuomo is the voice of the conservative element of the boomer generation that is deluded into thinking they are progressive or give a shit about younger people in any way and probably don't even consider themselves Republicans (though everything that comes out of their mouth sounds Republican-lite if not downright brainwormed authoritarian apologist).
The most jewish city on earth besides Tel Aviv has RESOUNDINGLY spoken against the genocide of Palestinians. It is that simple.
Andrew Cuomo's words are anti-democratic, they are anti-jewish in the sense that they vividly misrepresent the majority will of jews living in New York City and the US in general, Andrew Cuomo's words speak to a cancerous rot that is now exploded into the open in the US Colonial Empire's necessary conflation of Israel with Judaism.
Silicon Valley, the Finance Industry of the US and big business in the US in general has utterly consolidated around profiting off of the Palestinian Genocide especially as a means of delaying the popping of the AI bubble by using it as a means to obscure complicity in actors conducting the Palestinian Genocide. Blood is on all of our hands and in order to escape that horrific realization centrists will dive into the simple, relieving comfort of anti-semitism, conservatives that are PRETENDING to be the friends of jews right now are counting on it.
This is necessary for the next step, which is escaping complicity with the now undeniable Palestinian Genocide by turning the rightwing violently anti-semitic en masse through introducing a time tested "the Jews betrayed us again by fooling us into committing genocide for them!!!!!!!".
Any Jews still on the side of Israel here are openly inviting an era of mass violence and subjugation of the jewish people, Netanyahu is COUNTING on that.
So we can loot and destroy our own UNESCO sites?
This is precisely the insidious part. This is how an innocent self censorship of your privacy begins, with a harmless anecdote like this.