She would say something to the effect of that you should put your convictions in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first. She’d at least have a point in saying this, but I think the real problem is that she pretends to be a Realist by assigning “giving up” the eternal title of being More Realistic. She has no analysis of causes and material conditions most of the time, and in the rare cases that she does (when it helps attack the left), she looks at it only on the timescale of one election cycle. She has no concept of what activism is actually for because she can’t imagine doing something other than triangulating with what is popular already.
The practical material truth of every single claim she makes in this post that isn’t about her feelings (which is half the post) is either heavily misleading or overtly false, because it would compromise her doomerism to see how progress has been made by the Palestine activists, or understanding that activism is almost always an uphill battle of popularizing your position rather than always being popular and aligning your actions to flatter whatever you calculate the most people to currently like. Like, imagine applying her current logic to the struggle for trans rights as it was 20 years ago. She would basically tell you to give up because transphobia is overwhelmingly the default position and many proponents of trans rights are viewed as freaks and worse (due to transphobia, etc.). Contra at the time would never say to give up because, however uphill it was (and still is), her life was on the line with many others to oppose the whole neoliberal establishment on this issue. Now, her life is not on the line with the whole establishment, as the Democrat order is perfectly comfortable to her as a rich e-celeb, so rocking the boat is viewed as a threat at least as bad as the fascists. Therefore, people struggling with issues that are not yet popular should roll over and die, and those with popular issues that bring tumult to the Democrats should do the same, and according to her the cause of Palestine is both of these things, depending on which one makes it look worse in the moment.
She would say something to the effect of that you should put your convictions in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first. She’d at least have a point in saying this, but I think the real problem is that she pretends to be a Realist by assigning “giving up” the eternal title of being More Realistic. She has no analysis of causes and material conditions most of the time, and in the rare cases that she does (when it helps attack the left), she looks at it only on the timescale of one election cycle. She has no concept of what activism is actually for because she can’t imagine doing something other than triangulating with what is popular already.
The practical material truth of every single claim she makes in this post that isn’t about her feelings (which is half the post) is either heavily misleading or overtly false, because it would compromise her doomerism to see how progress has been made by the Palestine activists, or understanding that activism is almost always an uphill battle of popularizing your position rather than always being popular and aligning your actions to flatter whatever you calculate the most people to currently like. Like, imagine applying her current logic to the struggle for trans rights as it was 20 years ago. She would basically tell you to give up because transphobia is overwhelmingly the default position and many proponents of trans rights are viewed as freaks and worse (due to transphobia, etc.). Contra at the time would never say to give up because, however uphill it was (and still is), her life was on the line with many others to oppose the whole neoliberal establishment on this issue. Now, her life is not on the line with the whole establishment, as the Democrat order is perfectly comfortable to her as a rich e-celeb, so rocking the boat is viewed as a threat at least as bad as the fascists. Therefore, people struggling with issues that are not yet popular should roll over and die, and those with popular issues that bring tumult to the Democrats should do the same, and according to her the cause of Palestine is both of these things, depending on which one makes it look worse in the moment.