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Someone stop the ride, I want to get off (midwest.social)
submitted 6 months ago by archomrade@midwest.social to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] juicy 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There are lots of Palestinian Americans calling on people to Abandon Biden. One token Palestinian American on Lemmy who disagrees isn't particularly persuasive.

Slate went to Dearborn, MI:

“If it came down to Trump and Joe Biden, I will vote for Trump. Because it doesn’t get worse than Joe Biden,” a man named Salah told me. His friend, Amad, added, “Biden was supposed to be the peacemaker. The comfort-maker. Instead, he became accessory to the biggest genocide in modern history.”

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“Imagine thinking it’s a good argument to say to a community that has lost 30,000 people, ‘Watch out for the guy that’s going to ban you.’ You’re really asking me whether I’m going to take a ban or a genocide? I’ll take a ban,” Zahr told me.

“I mean, we’ve literally seen our families and our people being thrown into mass graves. Babies blown to bits. It’s not some far-off thing to us,” he said. “It’s been a struggle to declare our own humanity while mourning for our people being massacred.”

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The truth is Ahmed was one of the only Arabs I could find in Dearborn who openly admitted they actually planned to vote for Biden in November.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago

I don't think he was using that example in good faith, frankly. He's a reasonable guy but even reasonable people get tempted by convenient evidence