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There's something just so vile about this sort of "Optics liberalism" where it's more important to get "people" on "your side" than it is to actually stand for anything. That being inane and inoffensive is more important than actually making a difference. This idea that actually wanting to do something about a problem is just as bad as the problem itself, this insistence on tiny, incremental steps towards "change" instead of actually doing something about a problem. The sheer spinelessness of it all, while acting like she is "brave" for going against leftist opinion about Palestine and being pro"a bit less genocide, as long as we say Hamas is just as bad." something that might've flown 2-3 years ago, but Israel is far too mask off now, even most libs recognise it. No wonder Hillary Clinton is her best friend, they're both just as tone deaf as each other.
She’s not tone deaf lol. I bet you she gets giddy just thinking about how her deliberately contrarian post just triggered thousands and thousands of angry leftists out there.
That's a good point, she probably carefully crafted this specifically to piss off as many people as possible so she could play the victim, just like her Zionist buddies. She'll carefully comb the responses to this for anyone saying anything openly anti-semitic or transphobic and use that as proof that she is right and justify her Zionism further.
All two of us!
Grumble grumble
For some reason I didn't make the connection before, but if we pretend that she's trying to be progressive, her argument is tailism. She's not trying to get people on her side, she's deciding her side based on where she thinks more people already are without any interest in agitating for people to develop better positions, to benefit a good cause rather than just a popular one (and anti-zionism is characterized as unpopular at first before calling it popular to accuse it of giving Nazis cover). It's a perfect microcosm of her politics, where she thinks "having power" means conforming to the group that has power so they support you, as though you can thereby accomplish anything but what that group was already doing.