Yeah exactly this. This is stuff that literally always matters and isn't just something that you can say "this isn't the time for it". It's inherently tied into this issue.
Lol wow.
Oh so if I present an opinion that you happen to not like even though it concerns my ass way more than it does yours, it's trolling?
Let me just ask you this question actually, you condescending ass:
Yep, there are a lot very spineless, milquetoast people on this website, but what's new.
Well you're wrong, because hey guess what, the "adults in the room" legitimized that talking point. They didn't cause people to become anti-semitic, but they did embolden a lot of very shitty arguments.
It's funny that you're doing what leftists always accuse liberals of doing, which is valuing optics over actions. So I'm going to value actions over optics this time and go "nuh uh, you're wrong."
Perhaps I'm misreading but no one's arguing that liberal who criticized Omar are solely to blame. Its just an assumption that republicans don't give a shit of the climate so its not worth arguing that republicans should do anything (Because they won't and will not) so we're reliant on house democrats to do something. Otherwise nothing else is going to even attempt to keep Trump in check as he spews more nonsense.
The quote does argue that. I even bolded the relevant part of the sentence
This isn't optics. Disingenuously criticizing a Muslim woman for rightfully attacking Israel is an action, and it's one that implicitly supports Palestinian apartheid.
It's trying to use optics to say "someone criticized this person, and that gave a bunch of already antisemitic people cover to say antisemitic things in completely unrelated situations." Like they weren't doing that anyway.
I could see fascists in the United States eventually carrying out mass targeted slaughter against leftists, intellectuals, and journalists. Many conservatives are already frothing at the thought of it, and more and more are already committing violence. Fascism sees enemies everywhere.
Fuck them. There's a lot of people here that need to learn that their complicity with bad faith arguments being spewed towards Ilhan and other WoC in congress led to this moment.
So you believe that some people criticizing Ilhan Omar are "to blame for everything shitty that's happened since then"?
If you believe that antisemitism in America wasn't a problem until Ilhan Omar came along, and that people criticizing her are "to blame for everything shitty that's happened since then," then I personally think you couldn't care less about antisemitism except where it intersects with your defense of PoC.
No one legitimately thinks anti-semitism isn't a problem still. High ranking dems giving Trump ammo to sling his crap is what we're upset about.
Do you think he wouldn't be slinging this crap anyway? That's my point, I don't think anyone needed to enable the person whose political career was launched from racism and bigotry.
He saw it in the news, amplified tremendously by all sides coming for her, and has since jumped on it relentlessly.
