Yes, educating people should be one of his goals. But I would say his more important goal should be actually globalizing the intifada. If he has to use different phrasing in the moment to more effectively work towards that then he should. That is especially true when this article was first written because he was still trying to win the election. Spouting off ingroup terminology doesn't win elections.

I would much rather have him say things wrongly and acheive his actual goals than have him spend his entire term in office getting blocked due to insisting on specific phrasing and spending all his time trying to educate people around that phrasing.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If he has to use different phrasing in the moment to more effectively work towards that then he should.

This is how you win the fell-for-it-again-award

Every single person that tells you this will achieve absolutely fucking nothing as they will do nothing but triangulate themselves further and further rightwards to advance their career under the excuse that one day, in the future, it will eventually be worth it when they actually do something to advance our cause. That day will never come, they will just moderate themselves more and more and more to further their position. There will always be a little more adulting in the room needed to further their position just a little bit more to get more power.

It's just careerist behaviour. Such people become absorbed by the system.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We can't let our enemies choose our phrasing for us.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

It’s just an Arabic word for resistance and Americans are racist as shit, it’s not hard to understand. Can’t really solve racism before doing anything

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's where his role comes in as a public educator, make it clear that the attacks against him are just racism.

Instead he just catered to racism.