How the right is weaponizing pro-Palestinian campus protests in the US - eviltoast

Republicans are using a narrative of chaos and ā€˜philosophical divisions on Israelā€™ among Democrats to sink Bidenā€™s campaign

Republicans have identified recent college protests against Israelā€™s war in Gaza as the core of an election campaign narrative of chaos that they hope can be used to sink Joe Bidenā€™s presidency.

The approach was bluntly crystallised by Tom Cotton, the Republican senator Arkansas, in a recent television interview when he mocked the encampments that have sprung up in recent weeks as ā€œlittle Gazasā€ and lambasted the president for a perceived failure to unequivocally denounce instances of antisemitism.

  • Oofnik@kbin.social
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    6 months ago

    ā€œEveryone that disagrees with me is a shillā€

    Listen, Iā€™m going to hold my nose and vote for Biden in November because a Trump victory risks the end of democracy in the US, but Iā€™m so tired of this idea that all criticism of him, and anyone who disagrees with us about whether to vote for him, is a victim of some kind of conspiracy.

    That isnā€™t to say that people donā€™t want to exploit those divisions and will try to spread misinformation to do so, but that isnā€™t an excuse to dismiss everyone you disagree with either.

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      6 months ago

      In a normal media environment Iā€™d agree with you completely, the problem is that we have a media apparatus that is set up as a propaganda arm of a political party and mainstream media thinks that balance is that any negative news story must be balanced by a negative news story in the other direction (ā€œTrump incites riot and Biden mispronounced his granddaughters name, why both could mean the collapse of their campaignsā€ type coverage), instead of being balanced in standards of reporting.

      I donā€™t know what the solution is. My strategy though is to work down ballot to get better people in positions to push Biden and get him more flexibility to make better choices and changes.