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The Gand wizard explained to me why "Black lives matter" is bad, I will now discourage its use
Fuck this bullshit, stop centering everything on Zionists. Palestinians are being genocided and we're getting tone policed? The oppressor does not get to choose what we say.
Tone policing is just a way of controlling and extinguishing the narrative. When someone controls your language they control the message but wrapped up as being some kind of concerned support.
"I won't tell my supporters to rise up against things anymore because a Nazi said it reminded her of the warzaw ghetto uprising."
he never used the phrase himself to being with, he just got in trouble with the zionist media for not discouraging its use.
edit: until now. L move. he should be responding to that attack with the story of the warsaw ghetto intifiada and how the museum changed that word to, i forget, one of the words in the acronym for hamas.
Hamas stands for "Harakat al-Muqāwama al-Islāmiyya," and that middle word, "Muqāwama," basically means "resistance" or "struggle," which is what the US Holocaust Memorial Museum changed their Arabic text for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to. I think he cited them using the term "intifada" in the past and that provoked even more accusations of him being an antisemite, but idk if that's why the museum changed it, though they did change it pretty recently.
thanks, yeah the story i heard was that zionists were mad about the word intifada and complained/pressured for that change.
So... you had faith in the electoral system of the imperial core again, didn't you? 
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.
every mother fucking time lmao
Still waiting for him to do literally anything if consequence, but the optics-carers go off i guess 
people act like he's running to be mayor of Palestine or like he's walked back "i'm going to arrest Netanyahu" or like any of his actual public policy i.e. rent control
Feeling it with a presidential candidate in Ireland and her throwing fellow leftists like Mick Wallace under the bus. The only thing that can motivate me to vote is to send a clear message to ruling powers that isn’t some skewed poll or ignored demonstration.
i'm disappointed he isn't standing up to zionists but he has a lot of room to backpedal
like he's walked back "i'm going to arrest Netanyahu" or like any of his actual public policy i.e. rent control
When did he walk these back
He hasn't, but people here act like he did with his response to what is literally a slogan
You say this like him condemning "Black lives matter" because "All lives matter" wouldn't be a terrible indictment, and this situation is a lot less different from that than some might wish it was.
There is functionally no such thing as "hiding your power level" in the sense of secretly being more left. If you're "hiding your power level" it's because you're a rightist, and the phrase is exclusively used by baby leftists as cope.
If you're not creating the conditions for people more radical than yourself (e.g. by playing word police on radical slogans) then you're not a communist who's in deep cover waiting for the time to strike, you're just another liberal delaying the time to strike.
"There is functionally no such thing as "hiding your power level". Yeah this isn't a Dragonball episode 
as a politician sure but this does actually apply for hasan piker (calling DPRK best korea in a video with boy boy ,saying Mao liberated Tibet)
I really meant in terms of politicians and such. That said, I've spent an embarrassing amount of time listening to Hasan and I think he is basically as he represents himself with the one exception of de-emphasizing his belief in the necessity of violence because of TOS. Well, perhaps he realizes in some arguments that he is wrong slightly more often than he is willing to admit because he's also extremely stubborn, but it's hard to tell where that would leave him overall.
Mao liberating Tibet is something even the vast majority of revisionists agree with and "best Korea" has several points to consider: first, it's a meme; second, when there's only one other Korea and that Korea is the RoK, it's a really low bar to be "best Korea;" three, any decent Marxist who is interested in geopolitics should be able to tell you that the DPRK is not Marxist or even really socialist, so overstated support for it isn't selecting as strongly for being a Marxist as Hexbear would have you believe, even if the DPRK is unquestionably a historically progressive force and it would benefit the world for it to triumph over the foreign occupation dominating half of Korea.
any decent Marxist who is interested in geopolitics should be able to tell you that the DPRK is not Marxist or even really socialist
Yeah this is some very niche take. Is any country at all Marxist or socialist then?
I think you can define socialist in a pretty generous way (like "professes to seek the eventual end of class society") and that would include, to the best of my knowledge, every ""AES"" state except for the DPRK. The DPRK does not even meet that incredibly low bar; see the article I linked, where they are quoted as being against even the eventual destruction of the national bourgeoisie.
It is a fantasy that the DPRK is more socialist than Cuba, a fantasy that I struggle to imagine the basis of except that it has the most Soviet aesthetic and is the most openly hostile to America and friends. I strongly encourage you to read the article, ignoring Bland's Hoxha-philia because I don't think that aspect is very productive, but it's also not very relevant to the main content of the essay.
This "I didn't know what my words could mean to some people" is so ridiculous OF COURSE YOU FUCKING KNEW YOU SAID IT BECAUSE YOU WERE STANDING FOR SOMETHING, there's no way people don't see through this bullshit
YOU SAID IT
i thought he didn't, it's an antizionist slogan with a scary arabic word the media worked overtime to associate with him because of the less flashy, libbed up antizionism he's espoused--"israel has a right to exist as a state with equal rights" doesn't make the bush era racism dogs bark
yeah he was on some "i don't say that but i won't tell other people not to say it" and now he's slid all the way to "i would discourage"
they're not going to stop until he says "israel has a right to genocide and my first mayoral trip will be to kiss netanyahu's ring" but they're still trying to find the correctly-worded concession that will make the media stop framing him with racist dogwhistles. forget supporters getting the 
it's the campaign managers
they handed him the folder with pictures of him sleeping taken through a rifle scope 
p sure it was his mom and Rowling making a new HP film
Weirdly he actually told his mother when he was a teen to not direct the fifth Harry Potter film. Like not a joke.
ZOHRAN MAMDANI: Yes, they have. And you know, when we won the primary election, I said on that stage that I know millions of New Yorkers care deeply about what happens in Israel and Palestine. I’m one of those New Yorkers. And I commit to reaching even further, to understand disagreement, to wrestle with the complexities of those differing viewpoints, because what this city deserves is a mayor that looks not only to represent the close to 600,000 New Yorkers that voted for me, but rather the 8.5 million people that call this city home.
In the meetings I’ve had since that moment, I’ve met with Jewish elected officials, with rabbis, with community leaders. And there was one rabbi who spoke to me about how that phrase, for her, brought back memories of bus bombings in Haifa, of restaurant attacks in Jerusalem. I knew from what she was sharing with me that she had a fear, as she said, that that could come home to New York City.
So, in having that conversation with her, I understood that the gap between the intent I’ve heard some New Yorkers share with the use of that language—of calling for the end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land—was disconnected from the impact it was having in that same conversation I was having with that rabbi.
And so I have said, after having that conversation, that this is language I would discourage.
fucking knew it lmaooooo
Why are all the comments on that article so awful lmao
Pretty much every unpaywalled, free-for-all, english language comment section is going to be rabidly reactionary.
Here's how we can push him left
No way. He said the same thing he said two months ago about a slogan he doesn’t personally use??? It’s all over. Wrap it up everyone.