Yes, except that the greatest pathos in this may be the deep impotence we who feel all feel. Like the heart-felt but ineffectual impotence of the anti-Gaza genocide Jewish American guy on the DNC panel I heard yesterday saying, in effect, “Well, yes, we know they’re going to go on killing, but let’s celebrate that we can now openly give it cathartic lip service.” In a way, the cynical mock posturing of a Kamala Harris, posing as “One of us,” is even worse than the tone-deaf and disgusting but, at least, unfeigned indifference of a Joe Biden or an Anthony Blinken. Now, isn’t it disgusting, they can have a brown-skinned, multiracial daughter of immigrants stand at the podium and fake-decry the carnage while, at the same time, doing absolutely nothing to stop it—and, instead, in fact, actually enabling it and only giving it more moral cover. As if to say, “Yes, we’re genociding Gaza but, hey, we have a fellow sister in the fight calling it out…. So, we good, right?” It is beyond cynical, beyond gross, beyond immoral, simply immoral and revolting.
Yes, except that the greatest pathos in this may be the deep impotence we who feel all feel. Like the heart-felt but ineffectual impotence of the anti-Gaza genocide Jewish American guy on the DNC panel I heard yesterday saying, in effect, “Well, yes, we know they’re going to go on killing, but let’s celebrate that we can now openly give it cathartic lip service.” In a way, the cynical mock posturing of a Kamala Harris, posing as “One of us,” is even worse than the tone-deaf and disgusting but, at least, unfeigned indifference of a Joe Biden or an Anthony Blinken. Now, isn’t it disgusting, they can have a brown-skinned, multiracial daughter of immigrants stand at the podium and fake-decry the carnage while, at the same time, doing absolutely nothing to stop it—and, instead, in fact, actually enabling it and only giving it more moral cover. As if to say, “Yes, we’re genociding Gaza but, hey, we have a fellow sister in the fight calling it out…. So, we good, right?” It is beyond cynical, beyond gross, beyond immoral, simply immoral and revolting.