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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's ultimately really stupid to bring this issue up on social media or attend a rally for either side. You inevitably say something that is interpreted as offensive by someone and the easiest course of action your employer can take is to fire you. Know someone who went through law school then lost their first job posting about a Hamas terror attack [/quote]

This is true. People are waking up to the fact that they can’t really change anything but can easily get fired [/quote]

Well also, activists eat their own. Before 2020, I was a progressive liberal. Then I heard a series of messages about how I am intrinsically and irreversibly evil because I'm a white lady. I'm not progressive anymore. I think I'm still liberal in the classic sense of the word. But I'm not into the Sartre garbage that the west must participate in its own demise in order to reverse colonialism. No thank you.  [/quote]

I underwent a similar transition after 2020. I really don’t know [i]what[/i] I am now. [/quote]

I’m still a liberal, a Democrat, a white male, a strong believer in unions, women’s rights, and that people of color have got the short (often violent) end of the stick in this country since the beginning.

I’m also a strong supporter of Israel and its right to end Hamas, including the assault on Gaza. Hamas is willing to sacrifice every Gazan civilian if it would mean the end of Israel and Jewish people. And I feel horribly for the children of Gaza - I want nothing more for them to be taken out of that strip of land and protected.

I love how Rep. Richie Torres of the Bronx has been addressing his support for Israel. He’s been steadfast, clear eyed, and so forceful. It’s so important for Gentiles - especially a man of color representing the Bronx! - to show that kind of support.

If Hamas got a hold of any one of us - white, black, Asian, Hispanic, gay, straight, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, man, or woman - they would torture and murder us for being an American. Especially true if they suspect you of being LGBTQ. These terrorists are pure sadists out of your worst nightmares. Once they are done with Israel, they will next aim at Americans and Europeans.

They want theocratic slavery. [/quote]

I no longer consider myself a progressive or a liberal. I never called myself a [i]liberal[/i] anyway, because the word always had a tinge of insult to it from the way conservatives sneered it. Regardless, starting in the fall of 2020 I began to have my doubts. Doubts which had been heavily reinforced in me that whole summer where I observed, as did you, that many people believed I was inherently and irredeemably racist [i]because[/i] I was white. Add that in to what I perceived as glaring inconsistencies in behavior with regards to the early covid protocols , and I guess that was the coup de gras for my identifying as a progressive.

As I said, I don’t know what I am now. I haven’t changed. But I feel like a lot of other people I thought I identified with, did.  [/quote]

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