cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2907019
Blessed Wednesday, party people; let's get into it. Apparently, we've got some haughty, self-important Hollywood slimeball trying to corral opinions in manners that would be funny if it weren't so sad.
“...the Jews were the ones that walked side by side with the Blacks to fight for their rights. And now the Black community isn’t embracing us and saying ‘We stand with you the way you stood with us’? Jews died for their cause. Where’s the history lesson in that? Who’s teaching these kids? Because the fact that the entire Black community isn’t standing with us, to me, says they don’t know, or they’ve been brainwashed to hate Jews.” - Julianna Margulies
The context here? More cudgeling for support of Israel. She wound up having to walk that nonsense back this past Friday, too, and even then, her 'apology' was just as lacking as the average youtuber's; probably GPT-written to boot.
"I am horrified by the fact that statements I made on a recent podcast offended the Black and LGBTQIA+ communities, communities I truly love and respect,” so on, so forth.
As usual, settlers apologizing that what they said/did/etc. was found offensive; and not actually apologizing for what they did. The, "I'm sorry you feel that way"-type non-pology. I don't want to belabor some Hollywood slime for too long though; 'cause y'all know me-- I like to save my boot-heeling for the government; and as is usual out of me, it's with the sage words of Margaret Kimberley, who just HAS NOT BEEN MISSING since I've started reading her.
It is a bad sign when the leader of the United States Senate sounds something like an actress with bizarre feelings of entitlement. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer pulled off this dubious feat with his statements about U.S. policy towards Israel, what he perceives to be anti-semitism, and public opinion about Israel’s attack on Gaza. His remarks resembled those of actress Julianna Margulies, whose infamous rant differed only in its lack of politesse. Of course, a senator has better political sense and more awareness than an entertainer, but aside from the manner of delivery, their thought processes don’t differ very much.
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If Schumer and others expect a quid pro quo for their actions they should just say so. “Black lives matter but only if you say what I want you to say for the next few decades,” would be outrageous if spoken out loud but that is the gist of the criticism. There is also an assumption of superiority, a belief that one group has the right to make itself more deserving of sympathy and is entitled to silence others or to say that disagreements amount to bigotry and hatred.
Most importantly, Black people have every right to speak on any issue that we may choose. We have a right to our own politics. We have a right to choose who we will unite within bonds of solidarity. We have a right to praise or to condemn as we see fit. Expecting otherwise is to treat us as supplicants without agency who depend on the whims of others who can then cast us aside whenever doing so is politically convenient.
In essence, if we're expected to just sit down, shut up, and let the Democrats carry out their murderous whims-- (not even 'let', really, because they won't stop bleating, berating, and cudgeling us for uncritical support) -- then the genocidal uniparty has a few new things coming. The only way a subject-of-empire WOULDN'T be able to read the similarities between the Black plight, the Indigenous plight, and the Palestinian plight is if they were stricken blind, deaf, and dumb by the settlers in the first place.
There's no denying there's a good deal of our kin been Sunken Place'd on shit like this. Look at the Congressional Misleader Caucus, or the Black Capitalists playing Pied Piper with their pseudo-cult followings. "I'mma buy up the block but ultimately only buy like .5% of it while smoke-and-mirroring your ass into thinking I'm all that and a bag of donuts". Why my gut keeps saying, "fuck educating or uplifting the settlers-- we need to be figuring out who of our kin is salvageable; and leave the ones that aren't to their inevitable 'reward'."
We need to come together, meaningfully, as one mass, one giant middle finger to the Anglo-Zionist Axis, one cocked hammer against the settler project's skull. There is no future in which anyone is free without it.
No compromise, no retreat, people.