If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. - Desmond Tutu
It really is that simple folks. Any both-sidesism, well-actualling, or fence-sitting as it relates to Israel and Palestine is simple moral cowardice. Anything less than full-throated support for Palestinian liberation and denunciation of Israel apartheid and murder is de facto support for Israel.
Liberals love to talk about nuance and how actually issues are very complex because they don't have principles; they have positions that can be changed at any moment according to their convenience. They pretend that not taking a stand is a sign of their intelligence, maturity and objectivity. In actuality they are as cowardly and vicious as the most rabid neocon. Their hands are drenched in blood.
Sorry, just had to vent. The last week has been a real blackpill for me, even as someone who lived through the hysteria of 9/11. Death to America. Death to Israel. Death to the West.
I truly feel like the left is just as dead in the mainstream as it was when Michael Moore got booed off stage at the Oscars in 2003. Any progress since then has been a mirage. We are fucking cooked
Too many people haven't killed their inner settler. When push comes to shove, they still hate an oppressed person who doesn't let their oppressor destroy them.
Nobody wants to do self work anymore!!
Seriously though. There is a kind of "leftist" that has the right opinions, but are basically brunch liberals. If it personally inconveniences them or they have to do any amount of research, they get as far as the propaganda and stop.
I admit. When this started happening, I only knew the cliffnotes version from a leftist perspective. I'm learning a lot over the last week. But personal growth isn't for everyone.
All it takes for a lot of fair weather "leftists" to start goosestepping (or at least to wave cordially at the goosesteppers) is for them to feel like their treats are threatened.