even if you think there genuinely is a lot of awful shit in Israeli and Palestinian society culturally, *this is not the fucking time*, and it is *not your issue*, Wu!
I find Wu sort of morbidly fascinating because there are millions of people with an insane obsession over some internecine bloody ethnic dispute because that's the context they were born into and lived their whole lives and she just........chose to do it for fun as far as I can tell?
If I weren't already sitting I would be grasping for the back of a chair right now (I am not joking although I am VERY sleep deprived so I acknowledge my reactions are ill-calibrated)
I am sure she was horrified by it, she then plugged that horror into a 24/7 negative polarization machine, which is a very bad way to form your opinions about the world.
I am frankly a lot more sympathetic to Jews and Palestinians who had gone insane than random American gentiles who have jumped in, especially when (like Wu) they mostly use the conflict as a cudgel to wield in various unrelated fights between cliques.
The most telling thing was that she admitted she didn't know anything about the conflict before 10/7 and even to this day she straight up doesn't know a lot of basic facts about it. She literally only knows what her Twitter mutuals tell her.
She was raised a southern conservative; likely raised in the propaganda of let's-bring-about-the-apocalypse zionism that's peculiar to Christian fundamentalists.
Very common for people who "escape" that to never examine biases like islamophobia; they never had to because the Blob supported Israel.
She was adopted by Catholic parents in Mississippi or Missouri. Her dad was a neurologist I believe. I don't know if she found her birth parents but I don't believe she ever identified as Jewish.
Then again, she might have hidden some parts of her past
She just digs deep, reaching into the endless blackness, and pulls out a hot take more ludicrous than the last.
What is it about the rise of Trumpism that broke the brains of the lib/left pundit/author/commentators? Just completely abandoned any sort of principles for the promise of access.
They'd never accept treatment like Japan post World War 2 because Japan soon regained its independence, we poured resources into it, and accepted it as a part of the Western World. They want permanent subjugation.
Ah yes, ending United Nations relief and calling Palestinians war criminals, not Netanyahu who definitely doesn't have a warrant from the ICJ for war crimes.
It's funny, the Palestinian Authority is already implementing that model, complete with imitating Israeli professional governance (for example, the PCBS is modeled on the Israeli CBS). Not the same as how Americans wrote the Japanese constitution, but closer than she thinks.
Comments
even if you think there genuinely is a lot of awful shit in Israeli and Palestinian society culturally, *this is not the fucking time*, and it is *not your issue*, Wu!
covid lockdowns, her political career being over, her podcast being canceled due to low ratings / low ad buys
so she got really into twitch streaming, and it went from there
I do not believe in the best interpretation.
Very common for people who "escape" that to never examine biases like islamophobia; they never had to because the Blob supported Israel.
Then again, she might have hidden some parts of her past
What is it about the rise of Trumpism that broke the brains of the lib/left pundit/author/commentators? Just completely abandoned any sort of principles for the promise of access.