It’s not because it was Joe doing it, though. They’re just fine with pretty much all of it, pretty much all of them.
Well, yes. But that was rather my point. It’s not specific to Biden—the idea is that they’re all fine with it so long as their personal political capital benefits from agreeing with it, which it did, so long as a Democrat was in the White House. It’s two-faced. We agree on this.
I mention Joe specifically because he was in office when this particular era of the genocide started, and so there was a lot of people (not just politicians, either) who were perfectly comfortable backing his support of human rights violations for over a year. Does it need him to happen? No. But he was there, and he made things worse, so he is who gets called out.
On an optimistic note, however: I don’t remember specifically what article it was, but I do distinctly remember support for Israel has been dropping slowly over the last couple years, even before Trump started taking shits on everything. So not all the change in sentiment is temporary, thankfully.
My point is, I don’t think there are very many people at all who were fine when it was Joe doing it. I think there are people outraged and horrified that it’s happening in the first place, whoever’s in offce, and I think there are people who think it’s “antisemitism” and just some crazy protestors, and I don’t think there are too many people who are conditionally in one camp or another.
Like who are you thinking of, that’s suddenly speaking out against it when they were silent about it before? Who can you point to (a public figure or a person on Lemmy)?
Well, yes. But that was rather my point. It’s not specific to Biden—the idea is that they’re all fine with it so long as their personal political capital benefits from agreeing with it, which it did, so long as a Democrat was in the White House. It’s two-faced. We agree on this.
I mention Joe specifically because he was in office when this particular era of the genocide started, and so there was a lot of people (not just politicians, either) who were perfectly comfortable backing his support of human rights violations for over a year. Does it need him to happen? No. But he was there, and he made things worse, so he is who gets called out.
On an optimistic note, however: I don’t remember specifically what article it was, but I do distinctly remember support for Israel has been dropping slowly over the last couple years, even before Trump started taking shits on everything. So not all the change in sentiment is temporary, thankfully.
My point is, I don’t think there are very many people at all who were fine when it was Joe doing it. I think there are people outraged and horrified that it’s happening in the first place, whoever’s in offce, and I think there are people who think it’s “antisemitism” and just some crazy protestors, and I don’t think there are too many people who are conditionally in one camp or another.
Like who are you thinking of, that’s suddenly speaking out against it when they were silent about it before? Who can you point to (a public figure or a person on Lemmy)?