Erik Uden 🚩1d ago
The people who insist on waiting for some court's ruling before calling out and condemning a genocide are not just moving the goal post, deep down they must understand that by the time that court has come to a decision that displeases our ruling class, their representatives will have been silenced and their institution defamed to give the ideological basis to dismiss the court's ruling entirely.
Show threadErik Uden 🚩1d ago

I will be shocked and appalled if by the time the International Court of Justice has found Israel's actions in Gaza to be genocide, all those who morally condemned the usage of that term more than Israel's actions, will actually stand up and begin protesting on the right side of history.

Often these people were justifying this belief by claiming we need to wait on an official court ruling before allowing ourselves to condemn and protest genocide, an arbitrary standard never applied to any other conflict in human history.

This logic falls right into the moderate's fallacy: those who tell you your messaging and optics are too extreme to reach a large audience, or that we must wait for now is not the right time to make the issue heard, don't have your intentions in mind. They hate and disagree with your civil rights movement, telling you to wait is simply their best strategy to slow you down.

Show threadErik Uden 🚩
By the time the ICJ rules Israel's genocide as such, American leadership and mainstream media organizations will claim that they have been infiltrated by Hamas, just like the United Nations or Amnesty International supposedly were. The point isn't that they actually are, it's that the decision that they must be wrong has already been made. The news simply peddles the ideological basis to dismiss the court's rulings and continue to justify inaction in people who should stand up for the civil rights movement of our lifetime. That's why the logic of waiting or changing the optics of your messaging to appeal to a broader audience, despite what you are saying being correct and in need of being heard, is the moderate's fallacy.
Apr 3 at 6:19amWeb
Show threadErik Uden 🚩1d ago
Newton's first law of motion generally applies to politics as well: who is at rest will stay at rest, who is in motion will remain in motion. People won't be persuaded by reality to finally stand up for their or other people's rights, they will try to find reasons for their past and present inaction to be justified. No matter how easy the denunciation of humanitarian organizations or the United Nations could be dismissed as propaganda, they got their reason to do nothing, and that'll always be more convincing.
Show threadforstgarten1d ago
@ErikUden
Das kann ich so nicht stehen lassen:
Du hast die Omas gegen Rechts vergessen.
#omas_gegen_rechts
Show threadAlien software, human hardware1d ago
@ErikUden i guess it's only genocide if it comes from the Geno region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling mass murder.