Shared by George Takei today on Mastodon.
Full of gems like: “Don’t dismiss their anger and pain. For people who consider themselves progressive, the war in Gaza with its high civilian casualties can create a strong sense of turmoil, disillusionment, frustration, and even stronger emotions like fury and disgust.”
How to know if you’re progressive?
- Does the
genocidehigh civilian casualties of brown people frustrate or disgust you?
Here’s the article if you want to lose some brain cells https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/biden-gaza-israel-2024-election
I seriously want somebody to ask a notable super-lib like Takei - how much suffering and genocide would it take for you to stop supporting Biden. 75,000 dead - plus a corresponding number of injured and missing which means probably dead? If not that then 100,000+? 125,00+? 150,000+?
Doesn’t he have a comic about how poorly japanese Americans were treated? Guess it’s okay if it’s happening to Palestinians not him
I assume that he has American exceptionalism brain even though he and his family were put into a Japanese internment camp.
Sympathy is so simple. Just look at those poor people and how they are suffering.
Empathy is anything but simple. I could be one of those poor people.
It will never fail to amaze me how many people are pathologically unable to move beyond sympathy. They have a defective or nonexistent sense of empathy and I don’t think it can be mended.
“But Trump would kill 50 quintillion so you have to vote for Biden.”