Erik Uden 🚩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.
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.
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