‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza

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‘They will vote against Harris’: Arab Americans in Michigan desert Democrats over Gaza - Lemmy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21396125 [https://lemmy.ml/post/21396125] > Stephen Starr in Hamtramck, Michigan > Mon 14 Oct 2024 11.00 EDT

Single issue voters, or is this even a single issue because Trump and Harris don’t really have much different on this particular topic? People really have me scratching my head sometimes.

The single issue: genocide

Why are you sheepdogging for genociders? You have always had the option of saying nothing and educating yourself instead.

Just because you’re oversimplifying a complex issue doesn’t make you correct or your choice any better than the alternative.

Unless you’d like to explain how it does…

It is not a complex issue. There is a genocide and there are increasing calls to support those genociders electorally. Instead of supporting genociders, you should oppose them.

Liberals call “issues” complex in order to speak euphemistically about the horrible things they support. They do not actually have an understanding of the alleged complexity, it is just a lazy thought-terminating cliché. When you do understand something, you can discuss it directly. At the moment, you are apparently more afraid of using the word genocide than actually being complicut in it yourself. Is this the “complexity” you are referring to? Your personal discomfort? I suspect so.

Unless you’d like to explain how it does…

Being consistently against genocide is the first step towards actually fighting against it. I have set the bar very low. Can you clear it?

A 1000 year Middle East conflict “isn’t a complex issue”?

Either you’re obviously too ignorant to hold intelligent opinions on this matter, or you’re clearly arguing in bad faith by stating obvious falsehoods.

Why should anyone take you seriously?

Dude, Palestinians lived with Jews in what was called Palestine until WW2. This is not an ancient conflict unless you believe antisemitic propaganda.
Well no there were Zionist terrorists killing people in that area before World War II. We tend to gloss that over in history though for some reason, maybe it’s because so many people that were targeting were the British and everyone was just kind of okay with it.