The Real News Network“It's a bit of an obscenity that I'm asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren't we listening to the Palestinians?”
https://therealnews.com/auschwitz-survivor-gabor-mate-gaza-genocide?utm_source=mastodon
Nicole Parsons@therealnews@mastodon.social
A common strategy is to make the victims into solution finders, instead of obligating the perpetrators to clean up their own mess.
It's a way of draining resources away from activists. The Politics of Exhaustion.
"I'm a bigot, climate denier, antivaxxer, & election denier, solve my problems for me" is demanded of #MeToo , #BlackLivesMatter , & Democrats by GOP billionaires with vast resources.
Ukraine is told to resolve Putin's imperial ambitions for him.
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Voters are told to halt Trump's GOP fascism.
Jews are told to solve Holocaust & genocide denial. Latinos are told to fix ICE. Muslims are told to fix Islamophobia. LGBTQ are told to solve homophobia. Feminists are told to fix male loneliness & incel misogyny.
Jim Crow segregationists are never told to fix the KKK. NRA is never told to fix gun violence.
Tax evading billionaires are never asked to resolve the national debt, budget shortfalls, or the recessions that their greed has caused.