r/JewsOfConscience Jew of Color Jun 29 '24

Activism NYC Dyke March Drama

The NYC Dyke March is being boycotted by many other organizations including Act Up NYC for putting out and subsequently deleting this statement. Thoughts?

Imma be real I don't really think this statement is bad at all, but I understand that others have read it as "all lives matter"-ing the genocide in Gaza. Would love to hear more takes.

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u/newgoliath Jewish Communist Jun 29 '24

It's completely predictable that an idpol group would at least at times slip into liberal ideology. The other statements by this group seem more anti-imperialist, which is great.

Destroying the patriarchy because non hetero people exist,, or because it's used to reproduce capitalist imperialism. Which do you prefer?

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u/newgoliath Jewish Communist Jun 29 '24

Oh, the down votes. I guess liberals don't like revolutionary critique.

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u/ArmyOfMemories Jewish Anti-Zionist Jun 29 '24

The latter.

No idea why you're being downvoted.

We need to reject superficiality.

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u/ArmyOfMemories Jewish Anti-Zionist Jun 29 '24

There's nothing wrong with criticizing idpol when it is exploitative or tied to promoting status quo politics rather than actual change.

Any regular in this sub would know that human rights are not transactional - and that is an implicit rejection of idpol.

Pro-Israel activists certainly exploit it all the time to promote a pro-Israel narrative.

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u/newgoliath Jewish Communist Jun 29 '24 edited Jun 29 '24

Oh, you again. Go away with your imperialist apologia.

Go repost the NY Times elsewhere.

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