To Americans, twenty thousand Arabs dead in the Middle East is nothing compared to a minor but blatant violation of civil liberties of two American citizens

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The people who don’t care about Palestine certainly won’t care about domestic Islamophobia

[–] SerLava@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is a certain phenomenon though... a cop can shoot a black person for no reason and they'll all just pretend there was a reason and not punish the cop at all. Meanwhile a cop can get caught on camera being like "lol yeah dude, I hate black people so much" and it's actually more likely they'll get fired. Even though it's a thousand times less bad than murdering someone for their race, it's bad in a sort of undeniable way. They don't have the cover of some life and death crisis, so they just fire them.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

I don't think that's totally true. A lot of libs would be upset by this, but would support Isreal. They probably wouldn't care enough to not vote blue, but they'd care more about not appearing islamophobic while they support a genocide

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I dunno man, Biden's approval ratings are rock bottom I don't see how this helps him

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

I dont think there was this much deliberation. On the campaign's side you probably have people telling organizers to watch out for potential troublemakers, because they want a smooth event. A few layers below you have the people on the ground making the decision on which individual to let in and which to weed out and they aren't gonna deliberate much about the pro's and con's. They were told to watch out for potential troublemakers, they see a woman with a hijab, and they have to decide whether they want to risk someone protesting the president on live TV or have twitter mad because of the racial profiling.

And they'd rather have twitter mad over racism than have the president look bad on live TV.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Stupid? Sweaty they're preventing obvious Russian shills from trying to undermine Biden's campaign by ~~pointing out what he's doing is genocide~~ being uncivil