#ranks on being awful. liberals on the other hand. landlord coalition of people who suck but who are too concerned with aesthetics to be Tor

[daisyachain]

another bit of odd reporting in an otherwise average article, the CBC explicitly frames the most outspoken pro-war pro-occupation MP in the current neutral government as a ‘spokesperson for his [the Jewish] community’ while neglecting to frame the most outspoken pro-ceasefire MP as just that, an MP.

Less obvious than the usual lopsided reporting, the implication is that Housefather’s continuous, vocal, unhinged support for the found-by-the-international-court-to-be-in-violation-of-genocide-prevention actions of the Occupation Forces a) is an intrinsic part of his ethnic background, b) is a universal belief among Jewish people in Canada, c) is somehow different from the solidarity shown between Muslim/Arab Canadians like Zahid and majority Muslim/Arab Palestine. Why is she not The Voice of the Arab Community while he is The Voice of the Jewish Community? Obviously it’s stupid to dumb down a diverse group of people spread across the country into one singular opinion. Which begs the question. Why do it. ‘Emerged as a voice’ my ass. This means that he pretty much has no significance until Canada’s studiously milquetoast Liberals took the same tack they’ve taken as for every other issue that’s ever crossed their place and he decided he was going to become the Mr Ethnic Cleansing of his caucus

Sure, use that phrasing when talking about the government’s response to antisemitic threats/attacks in Montreal and Toronto. Those are things that are happening in Canada to people who live here. Putting that frame on this story in this place paints Housefather as pro-genocide by reason of inherent ethnocultural disposition, not by reason of dumb fucking pea brain. It’s a dissonant choice and whatever the reason it comes off as Bad to say that advocating against genocide prevention is somehowwwwww tied to your ethnicity