If you asked her, I’m sure she’d she doesn’t support genocide and that she doesn’t want it to happen.
But the tenor of that infamous tweet was one of nihilistic resignation, which like… On the one hand it’s kind if a distinction without a difference, the resulting inaction is the same.
But on the other hand, I do think it’s worth distinguishing, because her reasoning is honestly way more frustrating than just outright genocide support. If someone openly supports it, then ok cool, you’re evil and you’re my enemy.
But this kind of nihilistic resignation is… Just fucking annoying. The Palestinian people are still here, and they’ve already been through so damn much. So to throw up you’re hands, as a rich white woman, and say there’s nothing you can do, and that it’s a lost cause, why? Because you saw some upsetting videos online? Because some peopl were mean to you on Twitter?.. It makes me wanna beat my head against a wall! .
If you really boil down what that tweet says, her position is indistinguishable from Ethan Klein’s. That position being Israel is committing a genocide, but calling them out on it is antisemitic. The only difference is that she’s smarter than Ethan and can dress it up in nicer language.
Idk, Ethan doesn’t even pretend to feel bad about the whole genocide thing. There’s absolutely no light in his eyes. He’s opportunistically saying what he needs to.
Natalie, meanwhile, I think genuinely feels horror at the situation, and is so paralyzed by it, and her own stupid twitter addiction, that she’s cajoled herself into a similar position.
It’s like how you can solve a math problem in different ways. At the end of the day they both got to the same conclusion, so in that sense, we can just ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and declare them heinous dipshits. But at the same time, I do think it matters how people get there.
If you asked her, I’m sure she’d she doesn’t support genocide and that she doesn’t want it to happen.
But the tenor of that infamous tweet was one of nihilistic resignation, which like… On the one hand it’s kind if a distinction without a difference, the resulting inaction is the same.
But on the other hand, I do think it’s worth distinguishing, because her reasoning is honestly way more frustrating than just outright genocide support. If someone openly supports it, then ok cool, you’re evil and you’re my enemy.
But this kind of nihilistic resignation is… Just fucking annoying. The Palestinian people are still here, and they’ve already been through so damn much. So to throw up you’re hands, as a rich white woman, and say there’s nothing you can do, and that it’s a lost cause, why? Because you saw some upsetting videos online? Because some peopl were mean to you on Twitter?.. It makes me wanna beat my head against a wall! .
If you really boil down what that tweet says, her position is indistinguishable from Ethan Klein’s. That position being Israel is committing a genocide, but calling them out on it is antisemitic. The only difference is that she’s smarter than Ethan and can dress it up in nicer language.
Idk, Ethan doesn’t even pretend to feel bad about the whole genocide thing. There’s absolutely no light in his eyes. He’s opportunistically saying what he needs to.
Natalie, meanwhile, I think genuinely feels horror at the situation, and is so paralyzed by it, and her own stupid twitter addiction, that she’s cajoled herself into a similar position.
It’s like how you can solve a math problem in different ways. At the end of the day they both got to the same conclusion, so in that sense, we can just ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and declare them heinous dipshits. But at the same time, I do think it matters how people get there.