• MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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    Hard to tell how much is pro-Palestine, how much is actual anti-Semitism, and how much is simple self-preservation/people who actually thought they would be “defending their country” when they joined the National Guard. It’s also possible (assuming this is real, of course) that, like many higher-ups, this general does not actually have his finger on the pulse of the people under him. If he does, we don’t know if this is localized to his troops or present more broadly.

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          Plus pro-Palestine sentiment is decently common among libs, and while the military skews right there are plenty of lib idealists who join.

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        I think we may all be surprised, way more of my coworkers were pro palestine than i thought (though perhaps they just felt squeamish arguing with me being part palestinian). I also spraypainted some pro palestinian graffiti on a building downtown and…nobody has covered it, which was surprising (when i did some BLM graffiti in 2016 that shit was blacked out within 12 hours). Anecdotal evidence but just my take

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      I know nothing but I get the impression that some of it is just a lack of investment in “protecting” some foreign country they have little connection to.

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      Given that most right-wing Americans are extremely pro-Israel, and the military recruits largely from the right, there’s a high chance that “anti-Semitism” in this context means “not wanting to die in the Middle East for some other country’s interests.”

      “Anti-Semitism” in American political rhetoric tends to be just a code word for “not supporting the most militant wing of the Zionists.”