yassifying a genocide
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Is that a chicken eating KFC! ? ! That's so ironic! That's like CEOs for Luigi! That's like children for Minecraft YouTubers! That's like... QUEERS FOR PALESTINE. For anyone in the rainbow community involved in anti-genocide activism for Palestine, this is a classic experience. Not being a literal chicken eating KFC, of course, but being mocked by Zionists who claim that the average Palestinian would tear you apart and eat you alive for the sin of being fruity. I mean, it's the same line Zionists use over and over again to pinkwash the genocide that basically every human rights organization agrees Israel is committing against Palestinians. "They'd throw you off a roof in Gaza." "Hamas wouldn't respect your pronouns." "Double double, toil and trouble, Palestinians would put thou in a cauldron of bubble" Wait, wow, that one was kind of poetic. Whether it be flying a pride flag in the ruins of Gaza, attacking queer pop stars like Chappell Roan, flexing Tay-Tay's bodyguard working for the IDF, or Netanyahu using the chickens for KFC line in front of Congress, it seems every half-washed Zionist these days is eager to cash in on their $700 and use the facade of queer liberation to yassify a genocide. Of course, it shouldn't take YouTube video to tell you that it's basic morality to oppose mass murder, regardless of what its victims think of queer rights. It doesn't matter whether or not the victims of the Holocaust or Rwandan genocide or Bosnian genocide read up on their Judith Butler. Genocide in itself is wrong. And no one, especially the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians murdered by Israel, can have rights if they're dead. But there's something especially repugnant about using a symbol of liberation on the ruins of a genocide. And as a queer person invested in liberation for everyone, it's foremost up to us to dispel Zionist pinkwashing talking points, expose their origins in hasbara and boil down the homonationalist narrative they perpetuate. And maybe along the way, we'll find true love. Wait, is that Chappell Roan! ? Can I get a pict--? In 2014, the New York Times ran an advertisement that went a little something like this: Hamas, ISIS, and Iran kill gays like me.