Outrage grows after ‘chilling call for genocide’ by Florida Republican
Outrage grows after ‘chilling call for genocide’ by Florida Republican
Calls to censure Michelle Salzman, who said, ‘All of them’ when Democrat asked: ‘How many [dead Palestinians] will be enough?’
Can you imagine her outrage of anyone said that about any group she is part of? Women. American. Divorced. Military. You name it. “Kill all of them”, “How can you say that, that’s inhumane and you should be locked up in a mental hospital”, but when it’s Palestinians it’s fine I guess.
Imagine thinking a whole group of people- millions of people- deserve to die. I can't even comprehend the thought process there.
The thought of killing millions of people is becoming normalized again.
The more this rhetoric is repeated, the more likely it will occur .... if not in Palestine, then somewhere else.
We aren't evolving at this point ... we're regressing.
Now that everyone who experienced WW2 has gone, the collective memory isn't so strong. Up till a few years ago, you could talk to someone in the family who remembered it.
They only think about it in numbers and them gone.
Why are states wasting time with resolutions for international issues. Stay in your lane.
Why are you diverting attention from the real issue: a fuckin' psychopath calling for mass murder.
Cause more than enough people covered that topic in the comments already.
These people live in a bizarre, hate-filled universe.
That and their tribe is all they have.
America*
She said the only part out loud.
This is why I'm not all that concerned in the recent polls that Biden is losing support among Progressives, who tend to be sympathetic to the Palestinians. What are they going to do, vote for Trump and his friends, who are even worse? If Trump does win, do they really think they would be listened to?
I doubt a single person in Florida who thinks that Biden and the party he leads is not taking their side on this issue would vote for this person instead.
What are they going to do, vote for Trump and his friends, who are even worse?
What they might do is sit out the election or make a third party protest vote. I am no lover of Biden, but if he's the only viable choice other than Trump, we need him in the office and I'm worried not enough people will realize that.
It’s the same issue Hillary had. Lots of liberals were so fucking tired of the system. They wanted something new. And Hillary was a direct personification of the system; A career politician who had paid her party dues for decades, and felt like the seat had been promised to her. There were a lot of liberals who casted protest votes.
Their rhetoric is certainly more openly genocidal, but Biden has done little to nothing to stop this either. He seems to fully support funding genocide.
He uses language that is better, but his actions show no restraint in helping Israel 100%.
In a rare Oval Office speech, the president said, “We reject all forms of hate,” against Muslims, Jews and everyone, as he set the stage for a planned request to Congress for $14 billion in emergency assistance for Israel
And just 2 days ago:
Q What are the chances of a Gaza ceasefire?
THE PRESIDENT: None. No possibility.
This is what leftists are talking about when we say they're not that different. One party has better language sometimes but in reality little ever changes. Both ultimately serve the interests of the rich and the interests of the rich lie in imperialism and exploitation. The existence of Israel in that region benefits them.
But thats really the only line he could take. People talk about the benefits of incumbency when running for office, but incumbency also has a drawback that you need to find solutions to problems, in real-time, with whatever situation is currently going on. His opponents have the luxury of not having to be the one to deal with this problem, right now.
And the fact of the matter is, no matter how heavy handed Israel is being right now, Hamas is showing no signs of letting up. And, no matter what you think about Israel's treatment of Gaza all this time, no one can make an argument that Hamas didn't strike first in this most recent action. If Biden let up on Hamas the way his detractors want, all it does is embolden those who want to use violence to further their extreme politics. (Including the home-grown ones in the US).
They could choose not to vote at all, which is almost as bad. Or vote for a third party candidate, which is the same thing.
Many people think they're taking a moral stand by sitting out an election because they don't like their party's contender.
Used to listen to a local conservative radio host. Great guy, wouldn't let anyone talk shit if it wasn't true, never pushed any hate, nothing like today's breed.
Lady calls in and says she's refuses to vote McCain for whatever reason. OTOH, she disliked Obama even more. The host was gob smacked.
"You do realize that not voting McCain is next door to voting Obama and you're helping him win? Right? If you don't like Obama, wouldn't it be better to hold your nose and vote McCain?"
"I still won't do it. I have morals."
Supporting Israel in this holocaust is going to cost Biden votes.
Could just stay home. Maybe a bunch of us are tired of voting for people whose only qualifications is they aren't the other person.
But that's entirely my point. These people who are complaining that Biden isn't taking their side are at risk having an administration who considers them all to be terrorists to take over if they sit this one out. I suppose they can take solace in the fact that they stuck to their principles, even if the Trump Administration sends them all to re-education camps.
Sometimes the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Hope people are gathering outside her office to protest. What a piece of shit.
Wait… subject == repub == POS? Ok, nm, that checks out.
She seems like an idiot, but the reality is anyone with this opinion out of Israel right now kind of has the right to feel that way. Genocide never fixes problems and always creates more problems later
Not too far of a departure from Biden's statements about no upper limit of dead civilians or children and "None. No possiblity." about a ceasefire.
The real crime for the Republican: aligning with Biden in rhetoric.
Lemmings are rightly furious about these comments, but I don’t recall you all being upset about Tlaib’s tone-deaf implication that Israel should be wiped from the map.
I’m not pretending Tlaib’s comments are as bad as these, because they’re not, but I am absolutely for censuring Tlaib over them. They were totally out of line, no matter what she meant.
She called for Palestine to be free from the river to the sea. That doesn't actually require wiping Israel off the map.
Palestine and Israel could just become a single multi-ethnic democracy so everyone gets equal rights and equal protections.
It's like saying "Black Lives Matter" is racist because the implication is that only black lives matter, when it is actually meant to say black lives also matter. Bad faith interpretation.
“From the river to the sea” is a phrase used by Hamas and other anti-Israel groups in the region to talk about wiping Israel out. I don’t think Tlaib was actually calling for the destruction of Israel, but her choice of phrase was absolutely moronic, and I don’t believe she ever apologized for it. That’s what I meant about her comments not being as bad as these, but still bad.
"Lemmy did not levy these exact condemnations over a less-offensive comment and therefore...."
What? So what? What is your point? You posted this just to side track condemnation of actual genocidal language in order to drop some open-ended whataboutism?
Source on Tlab's comments?