She has become more identified with the Palestinian territories than with her Detroit-based 12th District.
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Finley is a staunch Republican, consider the bias of the source. He’s HOPING dems are going to turn their backs on Tlaib. It isn’t going to happen.
I did consider the source before posting and you may be right about the intent of the article. Then again, as they say, a broken clock tells the correct time twice a day. My concern is the quoted sentence from the article and it appears (at least to me) she is doing almost nothing to prove otherwise, n’est-ce pas?
The hand ringing around Tlaib is in her support to Palestinians and opposition to Israel. While I don’t 100% support her position on it, it is nice to see someone in the government with a different opinion on that matter. Given her district, I don’t think that stance is going to cost her votes. Her seat is safe even with an Israeli PAC offering $20M to anyone to run against her.
Totally possible. Actually, with the coming out regarding the offers of paid opposition, it may even strengthen her position.
Politics is truly a distasteful (but lucrative) occupation.
Or maybe you espouse views that are farther right than you like to think of yourself as. Views that would have put you, for example, on the side of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging.
You should consider asking yourself whether you need to more reading on this topic before having an opinion.
The “Stand with Israel” guy takes opportunity to publish criticism of Tlaib? Who knew?
How dare she stand against genocide.
This is what liberal white supremacy looks like btw.
Ya see, that’s just it. I don’t know nor am I convinced that Ms Tlaib is against genocide. Chanting “from the river to the sea” certainly isn’t winning her any points in my book.
And what does “liberal white supremacy” mean anyway? How am I supposed to parse that?
The only people who think From The River To The Sea is genocidal either learned everything they think they know about Palestine in the last 2 months (and learned it by uncritically parroting media narratives) or is engaging in cynical PR for the genocide itself. It has no basis in reality, so the only way to learn this anti-fact is the aforementioned ways. It requires an aversion to reading anything about the recent history of Palestine, in fact. Say, the last 75-100 years.
Liberal white supremacy means the white supremacy that is acceptable to and promoted by liberals. They might reject the KKK aesthetic but are more than happy to dehumanize the Palestinian population and revert to post-9/11 islamophobia the moment their masters say it’s okay. The kind that tut-tuts the victims of racialized settler-colonial apartheid while providing full cover for the colonizers.
People often think, “how could anyone have stood by during American slavery, or the genocide of indigenous Americans, or the Nazis?”. The answer is right in front of you: all of these liberals braying for Palestinian blood, bombing hospitals, and trying to punish just about the only voice in Congress pushing back on it.
That is the most ironclad paywall I’ve encountered yet.
edit: but still not good enough
Just because I was curious, archive.md is still undefeated for me
awesome, saving it, I cannot keep track of all the archive variants.
It’s the only one I’ve found that has yet to fail.
That is definitely better formatting too.
Wow! My apologies to all readers. I had no idea the Detroit News was behind a paywall. Thanks, @mateomaui@reddthat.com! 💖
no problem, I gotchu
Republican trying to deflect attention from an actual fascist insurrectionist in his own party.
