It's the quiet ones you should worry about
If you’re a moderate who lets radicals set the agenda, you’re no moderate.
“Ceasefire now” is sooooooooo last month, it would appear.
It seems to me there’s been a shift in messaging in pro-Hamas circles these past few weeks. To be fair, it is a bit awkward making a “ceasefire” the focus of your messaging when the Islamist terror group for which you’re running interference repeatedly keeps turning down ceasefire proposals.
At Columbia University - because of fucking course it was going to be at Columbia University - this trust-fund revolutionary is promising an endless stream of Oct. 7 pogroms, which is kind of odd since I was assured that Oct. 7 was a false flag operation something something Hannibal Directive.
It’s kind of fascinating how you “aren’t allowed” to criticize Israel, I’m repeatedly assured by liberal arts professors and other mental patients on the internet, and yet you can shriek this kind of thing on the streets of New York City, home to the world’s largest Jewish population outside of Israel, right in front of police officers, yet the Elders of Zion do nothing. Maybe they’re on a team-building retreat or something.
Of course this is just one guy in New York City. It’s a cheap shot to accuse all of his fellow protesters, in their suspiciously identical tents, of believing exactly as he does. Every movement, regardless of its place on the ideological horseshoe, has its extremists even by extremist standards.
And yet…it sure is interesting that no other Columbia student, normally the kind of person who’d accuse you of committing a genocidal microaggression if you burped too loudly, apparently had anything to say about a public call for thousands of pogroms.
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