r/JewsOfConscience • u/PreparationOk1450 Jewish Anti-Zionist • Jul 22 '24

Discussion Dementia is Disqualifying, but Not Genocide

It's really disturbing to me that dementia is disqualifying for Joe Biden, but him doing a genocide is not. That shows how Palestinians are viewed in America by the political class.

If only Hitler had dementia, maybe we could've gotten rid of him sooner, since the Holocaust wouldn't have been a problem for him with his domestic constituency.

What do others think?

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u/mobert_roses Jewish Jul 22 '24

The reality is that the vast majority of voters do not view Biden as "doing a genocide".

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u/ArmyOfMemories Jewish Anti-Zionist Jul 22 '24

I don't think there are any public opinion polls that pose the question in those terms.

But ya, it's likely most of the voting public do not see things that way.

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u/theapplekid Orthodox-raised, atheist, Ashkenazi, leftist 🍁 Jul 22 '24

I think more of the public believes that Israel has participated in ethnic cleansing than not (though a majority is unlikely to know enough to have an opinion one way or another).

But some people may support sending weapons despite the ethnic cleansing... because they'd generally support ethnic cleansing also. I mean Trump's platform is part "let's send all the Mexicans back home" and like 50% of Americans support him.

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u/TinyZoro Jewish Anti-Zionist Jul 22 '24

This is the crazy bit for me. People posting that despite him being a good guy.. he’s never been a good guy he’s old enough to be a segregationist. He’s a war on drugs, patriot act supporting, Zionist fauning conservative. By any metric.

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Jul 22 '24

Let's not forget that he's also the architect of student loan debt-peonage. The man is absolute garbage.

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u/Glad-Degree-4270 Post-Zionist Jul 22 '24

Joining UAW on the picket line was also great

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u/mobert_roses Jewish Jul 23 '24

He's genuinely done a lot of good domestically. Very difficult to separate that from the absolute catastrophe in Gaza. I suspect that Harris might be slightly better on Israel/Palestine because she simply has not been in the ultra-zionist milieu of national politics for as long. I could be wrong

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u/Last_Tarrasque Non religious Jewish communist Jul 23 '24

Like what, what good has he done for westerners (the people you clearly care about most)

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u/PreparationOk1450 Jewish Anti-Zionist Jul 22 '24

Do we have survey data on that? If true, this is an indictment of both the dishonest news media and the voters themselves.