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If you were still the useful idiot you claim to might have been in your 20s, how would you know you are not one any more?
by reportgunner 3y ago
If you were still the useful idiot you claim to might have been in your 20s, how would you know you are not one any more?
- johndunne 3y agoGood question and I arrived at this conclusion myself through experience. Consider this example (I'll keep it brief), I have 3 friends who are 'Pro Palestine' and have attended some recent protests in London and Belfast. We discussed if they chanted 'from the river to the sea' and they all said yes. I explained the sensitivity of this statement. They balked saying they chanted it meaning 'from the river to the sea, all will be free" but I showed them a video from a telegram channel (free gaza/Hamas owned) where the video of protesters chanting and text had an anti-Isreal/antisemitic slant to it. This video, along with showing them the Hamas charter (their first time seeing it!) which calls for all of Israel to be destroyed. I managed to convince two of them that the slogan is culturally sensitive enough that it doesn't belong at a Pro Palestine/Pro-Peace rally. This particular conflict is of a magnitude, riddled with heartbreaking injustices for both sides, that getting involved (by protesting/being pushy on Facebook/Twitter etc) at all is almost impossible without becoming someone's UI.