As a climate justice movement, we have to listen to the voices of those who are being oppressed and those who are fighting for freedom and for justice. Otherwise, there can be no climate justice without international solidarity.
Greta Thurnberg.
And, now Thurnberg, having sided with murder, has jumped the shark.
There's no connection whatsoever, and even less than that, with the situation in the Middle East and the climate,
But this is typical. In the 20s and 30s the American left came around to supporting Stalin in many instances. Why? Well, um, solidarity?
And this is why, in the end, that such movements lose their steam. Here a man joined the stage to protest the diversion of the protest. His actions were wrong, but his point was correct.
Of course the point will be made that being concerned for the Palestinians as a people, isn't the same as support for Hamas, and at least on an intellectual level, that's true. And as much as possible that can be done should be done to ease the humanitarian crisis that has come about.
But, by the same token, we should note, the East Prussians were not the same thing as the SS. They were displaced, permanently, in 1945 and nobody, outside the East Prussians, has shed a tear about. Hor's de combat.
Moreover, you can't really cross over from poster child for a cause, and frankly that's what she did, to left wing general agitator all at once and in this fashion. It discredits the movement you came from, particularly with the nonsensical effort to link the two.
But, never mind. The American left (and of course she's not part of that) supported every left wing cause of the 20s and 30s before burying their history of doing that in the late 40s and 50s. It didn't help them in the end, and they've never been able to really wash the blood off.
Solidarity is one thing. Sense is another.
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