This is the dark heart & power of the war on terror discourse: its capacity to magically transform political expression into terrorism, and therefore deny an entire class of speakers the right to speak. We are seeing it play out aggressively in real time right now and it is terrifying.
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Marisa Kabas
The larger picture, as others have pointed out, is that the Biden administration and now the Trump administration have cast anyone who defends Palestine as "pro-Hamas" and anyone who defends the rights of the people saying it as "Hamas sympathizers" which makes it much easier to justify persecution.
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clarifying that makes, or breaks, the valid and true conclusions
Dem Leadership target progressives & anyone who doesn’t pretend it’s the mid-90s & not Trump Coup 2.0.
RESIST STUPIDITY, especially in the Dem Party. -Independents