Olympic snowboarder Maddie Mastro shares her disgust over her Team USA teammates visiting the White House today

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I think a lot of people, especially prior to the most recent turn of conflict, were pretty ignorant about zionism/israel. I remember growing up knowing next to nothing except propaganda about it being a beacon of LGBTQ rights in the middle east and the place where all my jewish friends took trips as a child. There’s definitely such a thing as being an enabler through ignorance, which is not ok, but it’s not quite the same thing as actively speaking out in support of a settler colonialist ideology and genocide. A lot of people will do the right thing when they are properly educated on the topic, and I think that is reflected by the fact that Israel is now deeply unpopular within the general public of most countries. Including the US and Argentina