• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    8 months ago

    Seems to me like you simply don’t believe this particular cause is worth threatening this particular harm.

    Very wrong. I just don’t believe that risking Trump getting elected will help this particular cause. I think there’s an significant chance – I am 100% serious about this – that the United States would come out at the end of it with an apartheid regime for Arabs similar to Israel’s. I think there’s an excellent chance that Israel would be emboldened by Trump to actually go in and literally kill all the Palestinians, completing the genocide. I think Trump’s election would be catastrophic for the Palestinians, far worse than today, in addition to a long list of other people it would be catastrophic for.

    That’s why I brought up so many times the example of Boutwell vs Connor. Applying pressure to Boutwell sounds great. Refusing to support him in his election against Connor, because he’s a segregationist, doesn’t make any fucking sense. It seems like you keep insisting that I object to the first, when I don’t and keep telling you that I don’t. What I object to is the second. Surely that difference makes some sense?

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      8 months ago

      I just don’t believe that risking Trump getting elected [risking this particular harm] will help this particular cause

      That’s almost exactly what I said. And I agree, it won’t be effective [e.g. ‘help’ this particular cause] if libs keep running cover for his campaign regardless of what he does.

      Nothing I’ve said about protesting until the election has changed. Being loud so other people see the lack of support raises the stakes for Biden so he is compelled to reason.

      Like I said, you don’t think the risk is worth the cause, that’s fine.

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        That’s almost exactly what I said. And I agree, it won’t be effective [e.g. ‘help’ this particular cause] if libs keep running cover for his campaign regardless of what he does.

        Nothing I’ve said about protesting until the election has changed. Being loud so other people see the lack of support raises the stakes for Biden so he is compelled to reason.

        Yeah, I get that. Makes sense to me.

        Like I said, you don’t think the risk is worth the cause, that’s fine.

        Not exactly. A different way to say it would be, the cause is so important and the risk to the Palestinian people (among many others) so potentially catastrophic if Trump wins, that I’m hesitant to support this strategy. But yeah I get where you’re coming from.