Don’t you right-wingers ever tire of this obvious gutter smear?
It's not "gutter smear"; it's reality of this activism and these protests. I have shown the Hamas flags being waved, and pro-Hamas slogans being spray-painted. And even those protesters who are not explicitly doing that are certainly not distancing themselves from the overtly pro-Hamas contingent.
This is the tactic: Anyone who is against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza against the Palestinian people is automatically pro-Hamas, pro-terror, AND anti-Semitic to boot!
Calling Israel defending itself from Iran-directed aggression from Gaza "genocide" is the actual gutter smear here.
Jerry Coyne repeatedly pushes all these filthy lies at his awful blog.
Jerry Coyne, the biologist? What do you have against him, other than him being Jewish?
In fact, the gay protesters are
against genocide, as they and all of us should be.
"Permanent ceasefire" is a mirage without defeating Hamas, as they are quite clear that they want to repeat 10/7 over and over again until Israel is destroyed.
I have no use for right-wing evangelical Christians or their policies. But if someone were slaughtering them, I would protest.
If an evangelical Christian polity invaded their neighbors and massacred >1000 people and kidnapped hundreds more, and vowed to destroy their neighbors, I wound not fault their neighbors fighting back, even if that meant many from the attacking polity dying in the process.
Many German and Japanese civilians died in the latter stages of WWII.
No, that's just war.
And saying that Israel should not defend itself when any other country would have a lot of leeway to defend itself if attacked in a similar way is antisemitism.
Remember how we responded to 9/11. 10/6 killed ~10x more people on a per capita basis, and 9/11 did not involve Al Qaeda taking hostages.
The funny thing is this: The right-wingers are always attacking gays and other minorities for supposedly practicing “identity politics” — blacks voting only for blacks, gays for gays, etc. etc.
I am not a right-winger but I also detest identity politics. I also detest the far-left track of "queer" activism in areas unrelated (such as anti-police activism) or antithetical (such as opposing Israel vs. Gaza) to LGBTQ+ issues.
This is not true, of course, and also ignores the fact that for decades, huge numbers oif straight, white cisgendered men have been voting only for straight, white, cisgendered candidates BECAUSE they ARE straight, white, cisgendered men.
Two wrongs don't make a right. I voted for Obama twice. I did not vote for Mayor Pete, but I would.
Here we have a case of gays NOT conforming to this “identity politics” charge and they get attacked for it!
This is not identity politics, it's self interest. Identity politics is voting for a gay candidate just because he or she is gay. Self-interest would be being less likely to vote for a candidate if he or she for example wants to overturn Obergefell or even Lawrence. And Hamas, and even Fatah, are much further on the anti-gay spectrum than say Trump or Vance or even Mike Johnson.
