Supporting terrorism- the execution of innocent men, women, and children- is never a good look. So why were hundreds marching through downtown Portland doing precisely that?
Another spot on article, Jack. I too have been appalled by the utter cluelessness, and sometimes willful vitriol of the Left. But I have to say I'm not surprised. I've been warning about antisemitism on the Left for years now. But the events of 10/7 have made it blisteringly clear. These people are ghouls with placards and paint-by-numbers, 2nd hand, "radical" ideas that would do a Nazi proud. Which is a complete inversion of what they're supposed to stand for. Consider the deep irony; the Left is where antifa resides. And the Left is also where if the fascists are Hamas then a part of the Left considers them avatars of resistance. It's asinine. These people, who are likely more educated than average, nonetheless, are too hidebound to discern an ethical difference between Israeli oppression, which is a legitimate concern, and Israeli unintentional, collateral military deaths, and a group of terrorists whose intention was to commit purposeful slaughter upon defenseless people, making no distinction for age, sex, or infirmity. To these self impressed "deep" thinkers Israeli oppression, and unintentional killings of civilians occupies the same moral plane as Hamas sociopaths on an intentional killing spree. And these same people are always agonizing over how the Left is caricatured as being extreme and over the top? is it any wonder when the Left responds to what for most of us is a gut wrenching atrocity that's a slam dunk to condemn, but for them is confirmation of their radical chic. I disavow these people with the same fervor as I do the Right-Wing extremists they claim to oppose. It turns out that these Leftists are just selective about their preferred extremism. As long as it meets their standards they eagerly embrace it.
Well said, Andrew. It's as if you pulled this straight out of my brain. As I watched the marchers coming up Broadway, I was stunned by their arrogance and willingness to ignore the innocent Jews slaughtered by Hamas. It was as if they were simply "payback" for what they felt the Israelis had been doing to Palestinians for years and therefore their lives were unworthy of consideration.
Thanks Jack, and you're right. These people are so intellectually stunted that they celebrate terrorists that had they been where they attacked, would have slaughtered them and jeered over their corpses; and likely raped the women among them 1st to boot. The worse part of this, is the realization that for Palestinians to ever have a chance at state-hood, the Left is essential to that goal. Yet, the extreme Left has just stupidly increased the odds against such a thing ever happening, wow. I mean, you can't make this shit up, how idiotic can you be?
Another spot on article, Jack. I too have been appalled by the utter cluelessness, and sometimes willful vitriol of the Left. But I have to say I'm not surprised. I've been warning about antisemitism on the Left for years now. But the events of 10/7 have made it blisteringly clear. These people are ghouls with placards and paint-by-numbers, 2nd hand, "radical" ideas that would do a Nazi proud. Which is a complete inversion of what they're supposed to stand for. Consider the deep irony; the Left is where antifa resides. And the Left is also where if the fascists are Hamas then a part of the Left considers them avatars of resistance. It's asinine. These people, who are likely more educated than average, nonetheless, are too hidebound to discern an ethical difference between Israeli oppression, which is a legitimate concern, and Israeli unintentional, collateral military deaths, and a group of terrorists whose intention was to commit purposeful slaughter upon defenseless people, making no distinction for age, sex, or infirmity. To these self impressed "deep" thinkers Israeli oppression, and unintentional killings of civilians occupies the same moral plane as Hamas sociopaths on an intentional killing spree. And these same people are always agonizing over how the Left is caricatured as being extreme and over the top? is it any wonder when the Left responds to what for most of us is a gut wrenching atrocity that's a slam dunk to condemn, but for them is confirmation of their radical chic. I disavow these people with the same fervor as I do the Right-Wing extremists they claim to oppose. It turns out that these Leftists are just selective about their preferred extremism. As long as it meets their standards they eagerly embrace it.
Well said, Andrew. It's as if you pulled this straight out of my brain. As I watched the marchers coming up Broadway, I was stunned by their arrogance and willingness to ignore the innocent Jews slaughtered by Hamas. It was as if they were simply "payback" for what they felt the Israelis had been doing to Palestinians for years and therefore their lives were unworthy of consideration.
Thanks Jack, and you're right. These people are so intellectually stunted that they celebrate terrorists that had they been where they attacked, would have slaughtered them and jeered over their corpses; and likely raped the women among them 1st to boot. The worse part of this, is the realization that for Palestinians to ever have a chance at state-hood, the Left is essential to that goal. Yet, the extreme Left has just stupidly increased the odds against such a thing ever happening, wow. I mean, you can't make this shit up, how idiotic can you be?