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/averagecryptid Reconstructionist Jul 23 '24
As far as I know, there is no confirmed and publicly known diagnosis going on here. I do not think he has been officially disqualified due to any diagnosis. It's on the record that he chose of his own volition to step down.
I think more people also need to realize that disability is a form of oppression that people generally see as acceptable, or acceptable "within reason." And an element of genocide is making people permanently disabled, so that they will not have access to the same social power that others do. Someone who supports genocide is not so because of illness but because they were conditioned to do so. There's more to be said about the banality of evil etc etc but surely there's someone else here (I feel like every bundist I know is an expert in Hannah Arendt) that can talk more on that.
also want to be clear I'm tired and rambling