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Now you're just sniffing your own farts

If your response to that question is anything other than a full and unconditional yes, you're gonna have trouble beating the racist ideology allegations

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My contention is that Zionism is a racist ideology. Their response is no, it just means we want a Jewish homeland. My question is can that Jewish homeland accommodate full democratic rights of citizenship for all non-Jewish residents, necessarily including Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza

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Because the definition they gave didn't prove anything, and if they honestly answered the question they may have to consider that they're full of shit

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I'll absolutely condemn Egypt's complicity in Israel's crimes. Are you under the impression that Gaza and the West Bank are a fully independent nation from Israel?

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And what of the West Bank? Do you believe Palestinians living in the West Bank deserve the same full rights of citizenship as Jewish Israelis?

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Israel's functional occupation of Gaza never ended, even after the troop and settler withdrawal. It's being deliberately obtuse to pretend otherwise

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We have not imposed 16 years of siege warfare conditions, followed by 3 years of genocide, on Canada. Canada historically has control of their own borders, waterways, airspace, electricity, food sources, and trade relations, none of which can be said of Gaza

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Do you believe that Palestinian and other non-Jewish residents of Israel deserve to live in Israeli territory with equal rights of citizenship as Jewish Israelis?

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Words do actually have definitions, and we know this one. Zionism is the belief that Israel should exist as a Jewish ethnonational supremacist state. It's as fundamentally racist a belief as support for Apartheid in South Africa or Jim Crow in the South

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There's also the factor of pressure from the USSR, but that's a whole other conversation

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For example ,it's impossible to separate Bayard Rustin's socialism from his work in organizing and movement building, and its deeply dismissive of his historical legacy to just say he happened to be a socialist as if it were completely unrelated

Sure, to say any one group "got" the CRA is reductive of the coalition building involved in any mass movement, but it's a historical fact that socialists and the socialist movement were deeply involved in the CRA's passage.

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I'm not sure what you're arguing here. Are you saying the ultimate goal of Black socialists in the 60s was not the overthrow of capitalism? I mean the FBI assassinated Fred Hampton explicitly because of his efforts to build a cross-racial socialist movement

Are you dismissing the role that Black socialists like Bayard Rustin, Kwame Ture, Angela Davis, and the Black Panthers played in the Civil Rights Movement?

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Incidentally, if there are any enterprising sociologists reading this, I would be fascinated to read a sociological study of the Bluesky KHive in-group/out-group dynamics

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Awesome, the CIA has logged on.

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And for the record this started from responses to a comment I made about the death toll from the War on Terror

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I'm white. I'm responding to her questions, not the other way around

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And they say reading comprehension is at an all time low in this country

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Of any of my posts to screenshot to make your point, you pick a fairly tame and wonkish argument about M4A? C'mon, I have way more crackpot takes than this, you can do better

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Oh look a second hilarious joke about animal abuse. Stay classy

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It's his account I just transcribe for him

Just saying if I were in your shoes and understood the reality of the systemic terror and oppression the US visits on Black & Brown people at home, I would be a tad more circumspect about advertising my pride in helping inflict terror and atrocities on Black & Brown people abroad

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"Proud 4th generation veteran" lol

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I did just defend it. You're being a pedant to stand up for war criminals

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