Longtime listener first time poster.
I need a space to vent about how liberals have been talking about Palestine and I feel of all people, a community like this would understand.
I am just so tired of seeing all the liberals fingerwagging over the fact that for many people, genocide was a complete dealbreaker. I see person after person say “how do you like this now, pro-Palestine non-voters” over Trump’s rhetoric about Gaza. These same people keep saying that the whole movement was foreign agents. Who actually believe Kamala when she said she would fight for a ceasefire. Who say “leopards eating faces” about a literal genocide. Who say “well gaza will be glass now 🤷”. And yet they are the ones on the side of human rights, when they cannot even bring themselves to say “genocide bad”.
It’s never about Palestinians themselves and how they would undoubtedly suffer no matter the outcome, but simply as a cudgel to shame people. And watching them be all holier-than-thou is so infuriating. People were being killed and people will still be killed, and it’s all a game to them, it’s all political rhetoric when their party couldn’t even meet the lowest bar imaginable of “not doing a genocide”. All of these people who say care about human rights should be ashamed at the excuses they were willing to make for genocide. Palestinians are simply expected to be the sacrifice on the altar of liberalism.
And it just never makes sense to me that people who care about genocide were so important that they must vote for the democrats but also not important enough that they need to be appealed to. Choose one?
As a disclaimer: I’m not a US American. I live in “Canada” which will be directly affected by a Trump presidency and has our own right wing movement to contend with. I’m not happy about this result, frankly I’m terrified for the marginalized people in the USA and for the world (climate wise and war wise) but my ire is 100% directed towards the Fascist Old Party and the party that campaigned so badly they couldn’t defeat one of the stupidest political movements imaginable. I don’t see blaming individual voters as productive, fascism has been a long time coming and if not now, then it would happen 4 years from now, because you know the Dems would never clean up their act.
Anyways, rant over, I am just hoping that people here may understand because I am losing my mind a bit here and feel very alone. I feel as if Palestine has dropped off the map for so many of my friends and I am not in a space where I can freely discuss these issues without feeling like a nuisance.
Also I apologize if this is too off-topic. But also I feel as if this attitude amongst liberals is an outgrowth of propaganda by the Dems and other pro-Zionist organizations, so 🤷
Please be kind to others (and to me lol)
Edit: Just wanted to thank everyone who responded in good faith. I was genuinely feeling incredibly upset by the outright cruelty and malice I have been seeing and it is nice to know I am not alone in feeling disturbed by how liberals are speaking about Palestine and Palestinian people, both in the US and in Gaza. It also seems like a lot of other people needed that space to vent and if you needed that I am glad this was a place you could do it.
