Opposing The Gaza Genocide While Supporting Biden Is A Dishonest, Nonsensical Position by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2024-04-29 at 19:18:58 )

Opposing The Gaza Genocide While Supporting Biden Is A Dishonest, Nonsensical Position by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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It is like saying "Sure my husband is a serial killer, but he is great with the kids." If someone said that to you, the only conclusion you could possibly come to is that they are really not all that bothered by the serial killing.

Nobody who claims to oppose the Gaza genocide while simultaneously supporting Joe Biden actually opposes the Gaza genocide. They are just saying what needs to be said to win approval in the political sector they want the approval of. They are not taking a moral stand, they are cultivating an image. They are building a brand.

One of many possible examples of this ridiculous posturing is Instagram progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has called Israels atrocities in Gaza "an unfolding genocide" while continuing to support and defend the United States president who is currently backing that genocide, and who recently attended one of the pro-Palestine campus demonstrations which her president recently smeared as "antisemitic protests".

What AOC is doing here is attempting to straddle the impossible divide between what progressive Democrats claim their party is about and what it is actually about in real life.

She is paying lip service to opposing injustice, supporting a ceasefire and siding with anti-genocide activists because that is the sort of thing progressives are supposed to do, while simultaneously throwing her political support behind an administration that is facilitating injustice, keeping the genocide going, and smearing those who protest against it.

You really could not put together a more incoherent position if you tried.

You can not acknowledge that Israel is committing genocide without also acknowledging that the Biden administration has been actively participating in that genocide.

If you acknowledge that Biden is guilty of genocide, then you are acknowledging that he is guilty of the most horrific crime a state leader can possibly commit short of initiating a nuclear exchange.

Maybe you can ask him about the mass graves "please see here:"-Tamara Nassar (TamaraINassar) April 25, 2024

Once you have acknowledged that President Biden is guilty of doing pretty much the worst thing any state leader could possibly do, you have crossed a threshold.

After such an acknowledgement, it is not logically or ethically coherent to follow it by saying you support him anyway because at least he is a bit nicer to LGBT people than Donald Trump would be, or because he might try a tiny bit harder to reduce global warming.

You have acknowledged that he is participating in genocide. Genocide.

There is no "but" that could possibly follow that. It is like saying "Sure my husband is a serial killer, but he is great with the kids." If someone said that to you, the only conclusion you could possibly come to is that they are really not all that bothered by the serial killing.

Those who support Israels actions in Gaza are the worst people on earth, but at least their position has some kind of integrity.

They are not contradicting themselves by pretending to oppose what they are actually fine with. They are not tearing themselves in half trying to straddle two completely incompatible positions while smiling for the camera and pretending it does not hurt. They are not posturing as compassionate anti-imperialists while serving the evil empire.

Those who are supporting Biden while opposing the destruction of Gaza do not have any kind of integrity.

They are just wearing whatever mask is politically convenient based on the way the winds are blowing on a given moment, while continuing to support the United States-centralized empire which cannot be sustained without nonstop tyranny and bloodshed.

They are providing social media-friendly soundbites which pay lip service to peace, while their true loyalty lies with the globe-spanning power structure whose existence makes peace impossible!!

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