#unfortunately my mom has adopted a reflexively defensive position about the state of israel due to the fact that she is uh.

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apparently yelling at your parents for posting a bunch of reactionary shit on facebook about how the student protestors are all pathetic snowflakes because they eat gluten-free food and have blue hair and pronouns actually works sometimes? which is good. but oh my god

#unfortunately my mom has adopted a reflexively defensive position about the state of israel due to the fact that she is uh. #surrounded by incredibly virulent unchecked antisemites in her professional context #despite the fact that she is in fact deeply condemnatory of all actual actions the israeli military has actually taken in the last year #and when confronted will in fact redevelop her actual positions once she remembers that i am not antisemitic and will not #argue that all ashkenazi israelis should be expelled back into poland because they deserve it for killing jesus. #like there are positions i'm not going to talk them around on and don't really think it's worth trying to #but i can at least remind them that they are in fact not benefiting anyone by repeating talking points from a fucking bari weiss publicatn #about the intrinsic spoiled stupidity of student protestors and how it is exemplified by their frivolous homosexuality which #by its nature trivializes the struggles of the hostages. #they don't even believe that! they even listened to my arguments for why i don't think the student protests are #astroturfed or unsalvageably entangled with antisemitism and responded in a normal thoughtful way taking my points into account #but how come i have to monitor their facebook usage in order to remind them of their actual opinions every two months #you can't keep it together long enough to remember that you hate bari weiss?? fucksake #box opener