Progressives acknowledging the fact of genocide is a good first step, and it’s useful that Ocasio-Cortez and others have done so — “I think [unconditional aid to Israel] enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she said in Munich — but it is not in and of itself sufficient. Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.
What other populations are you willing to sacrifice? Why stop at “just” Palestinians? Should I also make allowances for transphobia and homophobia? What if they promise to just keep helping me as a white man, but decide we can sacrifice other minority communities on the altar of liberalism? No. Either equality for all, or for none.
So your answer is to do nothing to prevent the party that’s embracing transphobia, homophobia, and xenophobia from taking power? You should try thinking a little harder about the consequences of your actions next time.
There’s more to do to prevent the rise of fascism than vote. The democrats aren’t going to save you.
And how does accusing everyone who disagrees with you of being pro-genocide seem to be working out?
Democrats aren’t perfect but they’re a whole fucking lot better than republicans.
I mean democrats voted to give weapons to Israel knowing full well they were using those weapons to carry out a genocide. That’s by definition pro-genocide behavior. They’re a group of people who were happy to enable the mass murder of innocent people including children because that’s what their donors wanted.
Vote for them is you must but you can’t rely on people like that to defend you from fascists. They’ll sell you out the second your life becomes an inconvenience to their wealthy backers. Those backers also happen to be the the same people busy funding Trump’s fascist project. You have to do more than vote to protect yourself and the people you care about.
“Homophobia and transphobia” huh. You might as well compare mass genocide of innocents to school voucher issues or HOA regulations. They arent just not in the same ballpark, they are on different planets.