Condemning the genocide and saying (and probably also giving) money to charity is just an emotional balm to couch that she doesn’t really want to do anything about it.

The thrust of it is that trying is useless and personally bothers her. She knows that her liberal allies in the Democratic Party don’t give a single fuck about Palestine and has thus decided to just be sad about it while chastising people for trying to do anything. She supports Zionism because it is supported by the wealthy, and because it doesn’t affect her directly. She only sticks her neck out even slightly beyond what the wealthy liberal consensus is when it comes to things that personally affect her like transphobia.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

She supports Zionism because it is supported by the wealthy, and because it doesn’t affect her directly.

People have dug up her super old videos about atheism when she went by another name, and it had Islamophobic shit.

[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 23 points 3 days ago

I really don’t think she has any real ideological consistency, islamophobic shit was the wealthy liberal consensus at the time too.

If the wealthy liberal consensus was that Zionism was bad, she would dislike Zionism too. She is just a mindless follower of mainstream consensus justifying her lack of ideological convictions with sophistry ad hoc while feeling smugly superior to the people that do have convictions.

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 22 points 3 days ago

Condemning the genocide and saying (and probably also giving) money to charity is just an emotional balm to couch that she doesn’t really want to do anything about it.

Yep. It's the standard lib thing of "I think your cause is good and just, but you should push for it in a way that doesn't inconvenience me, or make me look bad. I'm behind you 100% though, so you can trust me, just ignore this knife in my hands, I'm not going to stab you in the back with it."