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brooklyn13

08/21/24 9:36 AM

#490190 RE: fuagf #490118

I have posted on the ongoing discrimination in this country, sorry you missed it or forgot.

It's an ongoing concern of mine as, historically, I'm no fan of white people or of America. Don't believe the hype.

“Hey, you know something people?
I'm not black
But there's a whole lots a times
I wish I could say I'm not white”
- frank zappa

While America has obviously made some strides in the racial bias department, we can still count on the police to continue to murder and imprison black people in disproportionate numbers. Just like the good old days and, apparently, like Australia. I'm reading a book now about the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII, a sobering account. How Americans can feel even slightly like they're entitled to take the moral high ground is a mystery. About anything. I believe it's called hypocrisy.

But, seriously, folks, I have a good friend who's married to an Aussie and they spend 6 months a year in Melbourne. I hear good things about the place, of course, and if you could only move the country a little closer to here, I might visit for a while.
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brooklyn13

08/21/24 10:01 AM

#490194 RE: fuagf #490118

But you have to think about the context of the anti-Zionist / pro-Palestinian demonstrations in this country. Is camping on campuses or chanting silly slogans or disrupting speeches going to change policy? Even though the participants pretend that it might, it won't, and everyone else knows it, so I think there have to be other motivating factors, beyond increasing sales of keffiyehs.

As far as I know, none of the protestors has been revealed to have given substantial sums of money to Gazans, none are going there to volunteer on medical teams or to deliver food or to, even, fight for their cause. Or very few. And while we've seen many ex-pat Ukrainians and Americans going to fight against Russia and we've seen many Israeli Americans and Americans going to fight against Hamas, the Hamas fan club is content to remain a theater piece.

So, what's the point, who benefits from these media oriented proceedings? I would venture a guess that it's part of a larger plan to create dissension among democrats to enable a Trump victory. By no impartial standards is this a genocide or is there apartheid in Israel (any worse than in America). These are ideas that attempt to be dog whistles on social media but are discounted by anyone with half a brain. (I mean, Genocide Joe? Who thinks that's clever?)

The genocide I see is by the Hamas leaders who have become billionaires by stealing aid money from their people, starving them and depriving them of medical supplies, and are using those same people as shields in a war while their brave fighters hide underground in tunnels.

The Palistinian American people who claim that won't vote for Harris are shooting themselves in the foot. As if enabling a victory by a guy who wanted to ban Muslims and who's Netanyahu's butt buddy will help their cause. So who gains by this?