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NYT columnist: The real crime is "the depravity of the edgelord anti-imperialists" (archive.ph)
submitted 11 months ago by Wertheimer@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net
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Summary - pity the Palestinians, but don't say anything to support their struggle.

On Thursday, Students for Justice in Palestine, a network of pro-Palestinian campus groups, is holding Day of Resistance demonstrations across the United States and Canada. A planning document the group posted online refers to all of Israel as a “settler colony” and says, “Settlers are not ‘civilians’ in the sense of international law, because they are military assets used to ensure continued control over stolen Palestinian land.”

Perhaps such hideous dogmatism shouldn’t be surprising. The left has always attracted certain people who relish the struggle against oppression primarily for the way it licenses their own cruelty; they are one reason movements on the left so reliably produce embittered apostates. Plenty of leftists have long fetishized revolutionary violence in poor countries, perhaps as a way of coping with their own ineffectuality. Che Guevara didn’t become a dorm room icon only for his motorcycle and rakish beret.

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[-] pizza_slave_summoner@hexbear.net 45 points 11 months ago

Has the NYT said the word "tankie" yet? WE'RE SO CLOSE

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 39 points 11 months ago

They do mention 1956 Hungary in this article, which counts enough for bingo, I think.

[-] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 38 points 11 months ago

Did they mention all the Nazi collaborators or how they immediately started up antisemitic pogroms? I mean, of course they didn’t.

[-] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

Was just gonna ask that. It is disgusting how inconsistent these assholes are. They will call Palestinians antisemitic in the same breath as they praise nazis in Ukraine and mourn nazis in Hungary

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