Is this a bad time to tell you that I'm brown?
And I haven't done a lot of work in the past 3 years to help marginalized people because I was too busy sorting out my mental health after a devastating depressive episode in early 2021. I was in a state medicaid plan through Obamacare, and that was only possible because red state voters approved a state medicaid expansion in a referendum.
Believe me when I say I'm not a trust fund socialist sipping mimosas at brunch.
I never said that I didn't care about the Palestinians. I do. And one of the reasons I'm voting for Biden is because the other option would just kill more of them. I fully recognize however that this is a post hoc rationalization.
I recognize that in voting for Biden, I am putting my own well-being and my concern about domestic issues ahead of my support for Palestinians. I'm prioritizing it as lower than other issues. And that's the horrible decision I choose to own, because I'm tired of worrying about my family's safety and all the emboldened racists.
Will you tell me that it's wrong for a minority person to seek safety and security for their family over support for a minority being genocides? That I should pick the morally pure choice and bring about a riskier situation for my family because of Trump?
I'll say it right now -- it is morally wrong. But it's the choice I make. My care for my family and for other minorities across the US takes priority over a minority being genocided overseas. I want to end this comment on quotable and firm statement (hence the rambling) but frankly there is none. The world sucks.