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minoanmiss“Extreme Danger”: Harris Earns a Stunning Endorsement Over Trump
"More than 100 Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and progressive Democrats and community leaders have signed a letter making the case for those reluctant to support Kamala Harris against Donald Trump."
The letter itself
Well, first, some excerpts.
“We know that many in our communities are resistant to vote for Kamala Harris because of the Biden administration’s complicity in the genocide,” the letter, published Thursday night, reads.
“Some of us have lost many family members in Gaza and Lebanon. We respect those who feel they simply can’t vote for a member of the administration that sent the bombs that may have killed their loved ones,” the letter continued. “As we consider the full situation carefully, however, we conclude that voting for Kamala Harris is the best option for the Palestinian cause and all of our communities.”
The letter describes an “awful situation where only flawed choices are available.”
“In our view, it is crystal clear that allowing the fascist Donald Trump to become President again would be the worst possible outcome for the Palestinian people. A Trump win would be an extreme danger to Muslims in our country, all immigrants, and the American pro-Palestine movement,” the letter states.
I'm putting this in my journal as a matter of historical interest, and because I agree with the letter, and because many people have cited the Gaza War as a reason to not vote for VP Harris. I think this is a valid response to that position.
I am NOT putting this here prescriptively. Something that people tend to do to people in marked groups is to assume that everyone in the marked group thinks the same about X or Y subject. In my experience there is no group for whom this is true.
"More than 100 Arizona Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and progressive Democrats and community leaders have signed a letter making the case for those reluctant to support Kamala Harris against Donald Trump."
The letter itself
Well, first, some excerpts.
“We know that many in our communities are resistant to vote for Kamala Harris because of the Biden administration’s complicity in the genocide,” the letter, published Thursday night, reads.
“Some of us have lost many family members in Gaza and Lebanon. We respect those who feel they simply can’t vote for a member of the administration that sent the bombs that may have killed their loved ones,” the letter continued. “As we consider the full situation carefully, however, we conclude that voting for Kamala Harris is the best option for the Palestinian cause and all of our communities.”
The letter describes an “awful situation where only flawed choices are available.”
“In our view, it is crystal clear that allowing the fascist Donald Trump to become President again would be the worst possible outcome for the Palestinian people. A Trump win would be an extreme danger to Muslims in our country, all immigrants, and the American pro-Palestine movement,” the letter states.
I'm putting this in my journal as a matter of historical interest, and because I agree with the letter, and because many people have cited the Gaza War as a reason to not vote for VP Harris. I think this is a valid response to that position.
I am NOT putting this here prescriptively. Something that people tend to do to people in marked groups is to assume that everyone in the marked group thinks the same about X or Y subject. In my experience there is no group for whom this is true.
