It's a stunningly dangerous precedent to censure a member of Congress for speaking up about the mass killing of an ethnic group, who is part of that same ethnic group.
Um, no. That not why she was censured. Please: I beg you- do better. The congresswoman was censured because her comments about Israel are not only *grossly* anti-Semitic, but a phrase used by #hamas in its genocidal charter.
She is blatantly supporting terrorism, and Hamas should be censured.
Can you imagine if she had said equivalent comments about the #LGBTQOr #BLMOr #AAPI communities?
You’d have called for her to resign.
@thetechtutor @luckytran How clear is it that the phrase "river to the sea" necessarily implies a desire for ethnic cleansing?
It feels like Tlaib kind of made it clear she wasn't calling for that, but was instead pushing for a 1-state/everyone-gets-one-vote kind of scheme.
Surely the belief that a single state there with proper democratic voting rights isn't inherently an evil opinion to hold.
Personally, I suspect that proposal has a good chance of ending in disaster, and that a 2-state solution would be much better. I also disagree with Tlaib's take on what the IDF is doing, and let's be honest pretty much everything Tlaib does or says, but still. I found myself similarly defending Ilhan Omar when she was criticized for talking about money in politics a few years ago. I mean, I disagree with her point (and pretty much everything she says generally) but it has to be ok to talk about money in politics.
Maybe US rhetorical standards make it too easy for phrases to be considered "problematic", leading to nonsense like this.
@ech @luckytran a one state solution, you say? Well then thank you for making clear that you - and so many others - are in favor of dismantling #Israel, a country that’s existed for about 75 years and was granted to the #jews as they are #indiginous to that land.
@thetechtutor @luckytran I actually made it quite clear I wasn't in favor of that. What a bizarre reply. 😂
