My community is a hub of Arab and Muslim America. Kamala Harris’s stance on the Middle East has left us hurt and angry, says community organiser Mona Mawari

These are people who would have never, ever voted for Trump, but billions of dollars are being spent by the Democrats to slaughter our loved ones and our families. Israel has been decimating south Lebanon, where many of our relatives live, and now this administration is deploying US troops to the Middle East. Not exactly a winning strategy if they actually want our votes.

Some people think of a Trump vote as a protest vote. I have heard arguments being made along the lines of “Trump is not the person who is committing the genocide right now” or “Well, we didn’t have any wars under Trump”. I personally disagree with this, and consider Trump to be a fascist and fearmonger who deeply traumatised our communities during his presidency. He was a hateful leader who slammed the door on refugees by implementing a Muslim ban. While he didn’t start any wars, he did escalate existing wars in the Middle East and vetoed a series of bipartisan bills that aimed at prohibiting arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

  • eldavi
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    2 months ago

    I don’t at all understand what the point is here. Do you think that Trumo will support Gazans

    the point is that neither trump or kamala support gazans despite whatever they say and expecting a group with the closest proximity to the genocide to accept your view that one genocide is better than the other is privilege at its worst.

    • Kethal@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      A black and white view of the world gets you nowhere. There is a huge difference in the way that this administration has handled this war and the way that Trump says he plans to handle it. To say that there is no difference in the degree of support these people would provide to Israel or Gazans is incredibly naive. Your choices are grass flavored ice cream, or shit flavored ice cream. Vanilla isn’t on the menu, and you have to pick one. “I don’t like either”, as if the two choices are the same, is living in a fantasy world.

      • eldavi
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        2 months ago

        A black and white view of the world gets you nowhere.

        take your own advice: there are more options out there beyond democrat or republican and these two have gone to great lengths to convince you that anything else is a fantasy world.

        generations of black and white only american voting has led us to this situation and the sooner we start seeing in color the sooner that we can stop accepting genocide as a lesser evil. this system demonstrably only permits black and white voting and perpetuating it will turn that lesser evil into acceptable behavior if we don’t stop; knowing that and doing it anyways makes you complicit.

        no one is forcing you to vote with a conscience; it’s just automatically better than listening to a groupthink that establishes that some genocide can be acceptable from now on.