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I can't help but feel we're in the "I have suddenly agreed this is bad now because it's a guy I don't like doing it" phase of politics.
I mean, sure, I like that resistance to the genocide is growing, but that's not enduring. The matter of the fact is there were a lot of people who were fine with this shit back when Joe did it, and who will likely pretend it suddenly stopped if a blue president makes office in the future. This is political convenience.
I mean you're not wrong. Every single person in American politics, with a handful of scattered exceptions, has been in favor of Israel's genocide for decades.
It's not because it was Joe doing it, though. They're just fine with pretty much all of it, pretty much all of them. But yes, they (along with a bunch of European governments) are all of a sudden pretending they discovered it's a big huge problem and they're extremely concerned, when the starvation has been going on for months and the broader genocide project for a lot longer than that. The newspapers are confused about it (or pretending to be, on purpose), and have just now worked themselves around now that it's fully undeniable, but these guys have intelligence agencies and they're not naive, I can't believe that they are equally ignorant about it.
And yes, they'll go back to not caring in the slightest once it slips out of the news cycle in a might-hurt-me-in-the-election type of way again.
Well, yes. But that was rather my point. It's not specific to Biden—the idea is that they're all fine with it so long as their personal political capital benefits from agreeing with it, which it did, so long as a Democrat was in the White House. It's two-faced. We agree on this.
I mention Joe specifically because he was in office when this particular era of the genocide started, and so there was a lot of people (not just politicians, either) who were perfectly comfortable backing his support of human rights violations for over a year. Does it need him to happen? No. But he was there, and he made things worse, so he is who gets called out.
On an optimistic note, however: I don't remember specifically what article it was, but I do distinctly remember support for Israel has been dropping slowly over the last couple years, even before Trump started taking shits on everything. So not all the change in sentiment is temporary, thankfully.
My point is, I don't think there are very many people at all who were fine when it was Joe doing it. I think there are people outraged and horrified that it's happening in the first place, whoever's in offce, and I think there are people who think it's "antisemitism" and just some crazy protestors, and I don't think there are too many people who are conditionally in one camp or another.
Like who are you thinking of, that's suddenly speaking out against it when they were silent about it before? Who can you point to (a public figure or a person on Lemmy)?