Yeah this is the point at which pressure to pick a side, even if it’s a contest between unacceptable options, gets in the way of being able to have the conversations necessary for a people to engage in self-governance.
Would I like it if I could vote directly on the question of whether or not to send money and military aid to a country engaged in apartheid and genocide? From my POV Israel should be pressured to choose between having US backing and continuing to commit obvious crimes against humanity, but unfortunately the false-binary rhetoric field is super-strong on this issue and obvs that means I should be shamed for being nazi-level anti-semitic or something like that /s
Yeah this is the point at which pressure to pick a side, even if it’s a contest between unacceptable options, gets in the way of being able to have the conversations necessary for a people to engage in self-governance.
Would I like it if I could vote directly on the question of whether or not to send money and military aid to a country engaged in apartheid and genocide? From my POV Israel should be pressured to choose between having US backing and continuing to commit obvious crimes against humanity, but unfortunately the false-binary rhetoric field is super-strong on this issue and obvs that means I should be shamed for being nazi-level anti-semitic or something like that /s