KEN!!! LMAOOOOOOOOOO did you just say that a Princeton or Harvard pro-Hamas encampment is A FORM OF "SOLIDARITY WITH THE HOUSELESS"??? I'm dyyyyyying Ken stop it!
I can't believe I'm willing to take anything you say seriously, but let's take this one line at a time:
-"Because nothing else was getting through" is the kind of justification children use when they do unacceptable things like bite people, spit on people's faces, or rabidly draw with sharpie on the wall.
It's also the language of abusers. No one is "forced" to resort to extreme measures (especially ones which literally support and sustain actual violence) in order to feel like their points are heard and agreed with. What a bizarrely entitled way of thinking. Wow.
"If you're going to say encampments aren't valid, you need to specifically say what forms of activism would be valid." Uh-oh Kenny, sounds like someone's been a-protestin'! Them's the illogical and entitled words of people who have never considered the notion that disagreeing with or disproving an idea doesn't intrinsically and urgently mean that you need to provide an alternative in order for the disagreement or disproval to have been valid or true. lmao
BUT since we're dabbling, I'll throw ya a lil bone, Ken. Here are some forms of activism that are valid:
-anything that doesn't result in or encourage physical violence (or physical intimidation or threats)
-writing and engaging in proactive, critical, open and grounded dialogue with people on- and off-line
-Reaching out to local and national politicians
- participating in nonviolent marches
Just to name a few! And it is more than legitimate - it is absolutely ESSENTIAL that so-called progressives and people with "humane values" back the right of a country that withstood a massive terror attack causing well over a thousand brutal civilian deaths, mass torture, rape, and kidnapping -- all of people ranging from infants to elderly Holocaust survivors-- in just one day. Under the leadership of the terrorist government organization of their neighbors, who have vowed to do so "again and again" until all the people in that country have met the same bitter end?
You speak with the ignorance of someone who has never experienced terrorism; you just sit smugly, feeling like a morally superior person because you're a "progressive" even though you are a white man sitting on stolen land that people just like you committed similar atrocities to conquer and steal.
The audacity that you, in such a position, would consider Jewish people in Israel uniquely undeserving of the right to exist safely (for no reason) and then go out of your way to protest and advocate AGAINST the right of that country to get back their hostages (including the BABY still held hostage there) and fight these monsters who have done this? It's absolutely appalling and sick.
And then you, like a conspiracy theorist basking in a very chill righteous white dude bro life of hypocrisy in Alaska, have the nerve to insinuate that the entire war is merely a scheme (that Netanyahu conjured himself, amirite? 🤡) for Jews to drink the blood of children or whatever other tired nonsense you have in your Ken noggin.
And exqueeze me for a second drama queen, we go from "encampments that threaten Jews are bad" to "no form of Palestinian solidarity is legitimate" real quick WOWZA. Slow down and take a few deep breaths, Ken.
It's normal to feel flustered -- it's called critical thinking ;)
