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Zohran Mamdani: A Rabbi Explained To Me Why "Globalize The Intifada" Makes Her Think Of Bombings
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beyond any consideration of the moral implications of being wishy washy under pressure about genocide by the feelings of horrifying racists: it's just stupid politics. admitting this is inviting a simple next step of attacks, about why he didn't say this sooner, and then why he's done so much advocacy for Palestine before, etc. he has a lifetime of advocacy that he's inviting them to continue slandering him about by not explaining to Al goddamn Sharpton why he's actually an incorrigible islamophobic anti-"Arab" racist who isn't even willing to learn how to pronounce the word he's pretending to care about so much let alone learn that it means uprising. it's also pretty clear that zohran is sort of just lying here? so that the press can here what they want to? but he's a brown muslim guy named Zohran "from Uganda" so absolutely no one who's a hysterical zionist nazi will be moved or swayed by this pitiful attempt at backpedaling, and neither will the feckless machine democrats who want to turn any instincts he has into mush like AOC. i don't think he's betrayed Palestinians, but whoever he's listened to in taking this tact is genuinely fucking bad at their job and needs to leave.
Folding under 0 pressure
There was some pressure, the issue is that this won't actually reduce the pressure even slightly.
The pressure is lighter now that there's a divided opposition and he has a D next to his name on the ballot. I think it makes it even less acceptable, it paints the picture that the primary campaign was opportunistic.
I agree at least that it's even less acceptable now and paints the picture that he's an opportunist, but I think it's still not true that there's zero pressure. I think that, if anything, the bourgeois interests who underestimated his campaign before will now dump much more funding into whoever they think the opposition is to try to be sure to crush him if doing so is at all possible still.
0 pressure, besides the fact this is literally all the papers run and talk about instead of the extremely popular actual policies.
is it mistake to concede in the expectation he'll stop being smeared from this angle? obviously, this story is literally just an embellishment of the earlier statement because the initial "discourage" statement still hasn't stopped the media from centering this zionist narrative. bro needs a
media coach ffs