@byjoelanderson sometimes on the pod when the rest of the gang is teaming up against you it feels like you need a lawyer. like im listening and i get what youre saying, but the pressure of the gang is hard and makes you talk in circles and i just wanna jump in and be your lawyer and clarify 4 u
"I’m not anti-Semitic at all, but I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe they have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns on biblical injunction."
Remembering James Baldwin, who passed away on this day in 1987
Ta-Nehisi Coates goes to the roots: the indefensibility of Jewish supremacy, the lack of equality in Israel.
That's why liberal Zionists are attacking him.
Beirut is the capital of a separate country. Telling every resident of 14 areas of Beirut to just immediately pick up and leave. Completely deranged, completely illegal. Funded by your tax dollars, with unconditional bipartisan support.
Liberals reject comparisons to Auschwitz bc for them Jews were innocent & Palestinians -either bc of they support resistance to their annihilation &/or bc Hamas is to blame for shielding &/or refusing to surrender-are not innocent.
Their racist logics fuel the fires of genocide.
James Baldwin, 1969: "When any white man in the world says, give me liberty or give me death, the entire white world applauds. When a Black man says exactly the same thing, he is judged a criminal and treated like one."
If you are anti-genocide, and don’t live in a swing state, vote for a 3rd party candidate. You won’t cause Trump to win because your state is going blue either way. Sends a strong signal to political entrepreneurs that people are ready to end America’s 2 party system for 2028