I have used this symbol (The upside down flag) before. Perhaps many times. After knocking out these posts, rants, and scammological nonsense for 15 years, I've lost count of what I've done. And hope to discover more of what I haven't done.
As I write this, on a rare sunny morning in Los Angeles, thousands of ill-informed, malignant, and often antisemitic college students are preparing to wreak more havoc on American campuses (campi?).
I can't help but wonder, where were all these outraged "American" students in 2014 when the Chinese government began a systematic persecution and cultural genocide on the Uyghurs in northwest China? Or do those Islamic lives not matter?
I went to The Google and found no such protests. There were reports of one angry coffee clatch on the campus of Stanford University, but other than that, nothing. Not even a movement to boycott goods coming from China.
Perhaps these selectively-outraged students are too enamored of their Airpods and affordable flat screen TVs and couldn't go without the accoutrement of their cushy lifestyle to make that type of sacrifice.
Similarly, when the Arab Spring (remember that?) arrived in beautiful downtown Damascus, so did the persecution of Christian minorities and various Muslim sects not in line with Syria's Assad government.
UN statistics, more accurate that the fakakta numbers released by Hamas, say more than 500,000 people, including women and children, were slain by the Syrian government. Not to mention the millions who have been displaced and now live in refugee camps throughout the region.
I went to The Google again and found college students doing what college students do: hackeysacking, smoking weed and making tik tok videos.
Were there any calls for a boycott of goods produced in Syria? Again no. Perhaps because Syria, like so many countries in the Less-than-Fertile Crescent don't produce any goods, other than strife, despair and inhumanity fueled by century old, inter-Islamic schisms.
What I didn't see was the call for the dismemberment of the Syrian monarchy? "From the Euphrates to the Sea, Syria shall be free!"
But I do hear a lot of renewed naive calls for a Two State solution.
Maybe if these 20 something year old kids cracked open a book they'd know that a Two State Solution was proposed in 1948, when many countries in post WWII and during the collapse of the British Empire, came into being. In fact, the Two State solution has been on the negotiating table many times since. Always summarily rejected, by one side.
I choose not to go down that rabbit hole. Because there's an even more pressing matter at hand: the Dissolution of our own 50 State experiment -- America.
As I am clicking and clacking these very words, our former president and the current GOP nominee who has promised to toss our Constitution in the terlet and make himself dictator for a day, is sitting in a courtroom facing 34 criminal counts.
As if that weren't disturbing enough, 6 of 9 of our Supreme Court justices are sporting their high falutin' robes and rewriting Article Two of the Constitution with the stipulation that the President (if we ever have another one after Trump,) will have broad powers, absolute (or even partial) immunity and be accountable to no one.
Least of all, We The People.
I'm not sure these myopic tent-loving, hate-spewing kids are familiar with 20th century history (actually I am sure they're not) but Hitler and the National Socialists didn't come to power in Germany via a flash in the pan military coup. They did it by the slow moving erosion of German law.
Sound eerily familiar? If not, take it from this hebraic canary in the coal mine, it should.
This country, where students are free to voice contrarian opinions, march, protest and enjoy the freedom of speech are actively ignoring the demise of those rights, in support of a "nation" where those rights, as well as the rights of women, LGBTQ, and other assorted minorities, would NEVER exist.
Talk about irony? Talk about distress?
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