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Ocasio-Cortez won't call Gaza war a genocide, another lying politician

Lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was recently followed and filmed by a group of protesters while out with her fiance. These protesters were demanding that she call Israel's intervention in Gaza a "genocide", to which she said she has, when she has not.

In January, Cortez avoided calling it a genocide by saying the empty, meaningless words: "I am appalled at the violence and the indiscriminate loss of life", and on the question of genocide:
"they’re still determining it. But in the interim ruling, the fact that they said there’s a responsibility to prevent it, the fact that this word is even in play, the fact that this word is even in our discourse, I think, demonstrates the mass inhumanity that Gazans are facing."

What about the fact that she can't, or won't, say it? The fact that she is only alluding to what other people think? The fact that she is still determining what would be wise to say. The fact, the fact...

This woman isn't an activist, she is a politician. She is thinking about her future, and to do that she must be a moderate, and she must have the support of democratic elites, and any Jews who donate money or help with future campaigns.

If she isn't pretending to care about a cause through misguided and insincere attempts at "speaking out" or "advocating", she is playing the politician and putting her career before anything else. Why would anyone care for her, or any other politician? All they do is think about what they say, who their audience is, and what will happen to them as they reach for power.
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AOC is doing everything right. She's more effective at winning over normies if she doesn't use the word "genocide," even though she knows that's what this is.
badlands · 22-25, F
@BohemianBoo Who has she won over?
@badlands Look around. Palestine has never had this much support in the history of the Israeli blockade.
Of course that isn't all AOC, but she has been literally the best person in congress when it comes to this topic.
badlands · 22-25, F
@BohemianBoo Yet, when it comes to it, she still chooses her career. If she had a choice between helping Palestinians and keeping her job with the hope of achieving more for herself, she would choose the latter. She has.
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badlands · 22-25, F
@BohemianBoo How is she helping Palestinians?
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badlands · 22-25, F
@BohemianBoo She knows that aid to Israel will never be conditional, unless there are somehow less Jews in the US, and Zionism miraculously falls apart, and they all become poor and powerless. When Sanders proposed the measure to make military aid to Israel conditional, it was rejected by all but 11 senators.

All Ocasio-Cortez can do is keep her integrity and not think about her career before what she feels is true. I think it is apparent it is a genocide, and when politicians say what they feel, people tend to listen to them more. Why do you think she was so scared to use this word? If she had any power and any ability to change anything, she would have said it.