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[taffimai]

Two questions from the Dyke March:

1) Why does being a lesbian have to come with a built-in political agenda? Just because I like girls I need to be an anti-Capitalist vegan? Why?
2) Why has the left so embraced the Palestinian side of the Israel/Palestine conflict? Do they not understand that Israel was created in an attempt to create a place of refuge for a group that had just barely survived attempted genocide? Do they not understand that they are siding with a group that systematically uses acts of terror to advance their cause? Can they not understand that no, Israel isn't perfect but that this isn't a black and white issue?

Comments

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I definitely think that's some of it. I also think a lot of it is displaced guilt from how America treated its indiginous population. It's not even remotely the same situation, but it tweaks those buttons and launches people into this-is-wrong-even-though-I-don't-understand-the-situation mode.

And, yeah, this is personal for me. Have you heard of Koby Mandell? He was my little brother's best friend.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

It's personal for lots of us, and that is another reason I have no fucking patience for those to whom it is merely liberal guilt politics.

[taffimai.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Yes. That.