Ah, I knew that lazy soundbite would come up. You get that from a script, or are you just good at parroting?
“Mr. President, what’s your message to the protesters? Do you condemn the antisemitic protests on college campuses?” reporters asked the president after his speech Monday afternoon.
“I condemn the antisemitic protests,” Biden replied to the reporters. “That’s why I set up a program to deal with that.”
“I also condemn those who don’t understand what’s going on with the Palestinians.”
Yes? That Biden is condemning, specifically, protests that are antisemitic, as that is specifically how the question is phrased, not all campus protests.
There have definitely been antisemitic incidents, and pretending otherwise is tribalist hagiography.
If Biden said “No, I am not going to condemn antisemitic protests” to a fucking journo, what the fuck do you think the result would be? “I condemn antisemitic protests and I condemn those who don’t understand the Palestinian plight” is about as reasonable an off-the-cuff answer as he could be expected to give.
He should have said “What antisemitic protests? The protests are overwhelmingly peaceful and many Jews have been participating. I won’t listen to you mischaracterize an entire movement.”
But he basically spread the lie that antisemitic protests are a problem, when you know it’s not. Antisemitic “incidents”, as you say, occur regularly in our country regardless of the protests.
"I condemn the antisemitic protests,” is literally a direct quote lmao.
Ah, I knew that lazy soundbite would come up. You get that from a script, or are you just good at parroting?
Lmao is that context supposed to change the meaning of the quote somehow? How?
I love how this OP keeps posting quotes that just make Biden look like more and more of an asshole
Yes? That Biden is condemning, specifically, protests that are antisemitic, as that is specifically how the question is phrased, not all campus protests.
None of the protests are anti-Semitic 🙄 that’s the lie that pro-Israel folks and Biden are spreading.
There have definitely been antisemitic incidents, and pretending otherwise is tribalist hagiography.
If Biden said “No, I am not going to condemn antisemitic protests” to a fucking journo, what the fuck do you think the result would be? “I condemn antisemitic protests and I condemn those who don’t understand the Palestinian plight” is about as reasonable an off-the-cuff answer as he could be expected to give.
He should have said “What antisemitic protests? The protests are overwhelmingly peaceful and many Jews have been participating. I won’t listen to you mischaracterize an entire movement.”
But he basically spread the lie that antisemitic protests are a problem, when you know it’s not. Antisemitic “incidents”, as you say, occur regularly in our country regardless of the protests.