It frustrates me that so many anti-Israel protests focus on leftwing SJW causes
I don't know if it's an intentional poison pill, or just your standard leftoid retardation, but I agree it's frustrating that the "Israel is doing bad shit" and "I wish my money wasn't being siphoned away to fund the murder of men, women, and children, and the annexation of land by foreign interests" are so associated with leftism. I feel like I always have to specify that I'm not associated with those weirdos, when I say I don't like murder and shit.
It just comes with the territory, I suppose, as leftism really owns the "protest" side of things. I think because the right realizes it's largely pointless, has better things to do, and aren't as obsessed with virtue signaling and "belonging," which is what a huge chunk of protests are about; it's all about Community and showing you're a Good Person. The meme about "leftism is a mental illness" is often true, and so they monopolize "protests" so they can be the Protagonists. It's all about their own narcissism. So, even when the cause is correct, the left often owns it optically, because they're the ones out there yelling the loudest, for their own egos.
They're deliberately obtuse about the evils of zionism, the influence of AIPAC, and the "1%" landlord/banker/capitalist class having that one incohenvenient thing in common
Because those two sides uniting over that particular issue would just be the worst in so many ways. And I don't really care about Israel one way or the other.
I don't know if it's an intentional poison pill, or just your standard leftoid retardation, but I agree it's frustrating that the "Israel is doing bad shit" and "I wish my money wasn't being siphoned away to fund the murder of men, women, and children, and the annexation of land by foreign interests" are so associated with leftism. I feel like I always have to specify that I'm not associated with those weirdos, when I say I don't like murder and shit.
It just comes with the territory, I suppose, as leftism really owns the "protest" side of things. I think because the right realizes it's largely pointless, has better things to do, and aren't as obsessed with virtue signaling and "belonging," which is what a huge chunk of protests are about; it's all about Community and showing you're a Good Person. The meme about "leftism is a mental illness" is often true, and so they monopolize "protests" so they can be the Protagonists. It's all about their own narcissism. So, even when the cause is correct, the left often owns it optically, because they're the ones out there yelling the loudest, for their own egos.
They're deliberately obtuse about the evils of zionism, the influence of AIPAC, and the "1%" landlord/banker/capitalist class having that one incohenvenient thing in common
I love the virtue signaling by proxy posts I occasionally come across on Reddit
"Oh, I was going to attend the protest but had to work"
"I wanted to join them but couldn't get a ride"
Problem. Reaction. Solution.
The leftists are the middle part of that. It's worse than being useless. They're useful idiots for the cause of the people destroying all of us.
I wish it was just ego. We could deal with that. This is far worse.
It doesn't matter if it's intentional...
Because those two sides uniting over that particular issue would just be the worst in so many ways. And I don't really care about Israel one way or the other.