Free Speech

Here's a preemptive f*** you to every single person who's ever taken a side in this particular Israel/Palestine debate.

Of course cancel culture exists, it obviously does, it always has, and there is no better evidence than the Israel debate of how both sides use it disingenuously as a political weapon and have for the better part of a hundred years.

The idea that the pro-Palestine side invokes free speech now after having suppressed speech on so many other issues from... to... I don't want to say them because it will get everybody mad and get me ever asymptotically closer to the complete cancellation I've courted for thirty years. The hypocrisy of the pro-Palestine left is so unbelievably outrageous. Your chickens have finally come home to roost and it could not come a moment too soon and one can only hope your behavior results in the same in... any other country in the world.

Meanwhile, the right and center who've complained about cancel culture for years are now doing everything they can to silence everybody who disagrees with them into non-persons. This is... this is... this is... everything you claim to hate, and even if the pro-Palestine side completely controls academia and just about every government in the world, your side literally controls a government that can countermand the will of the entire world. Anti-Israel resolutions can't even get through congress with 20 votes. What more could you possibly need in America? Every attempt to suppress it will just make the oppostion to you worse.

Who's right in this debate? Everybody is, and everybody is also deeply, deeply wrong.

It's understandable. In a war, everybody fights dirty, but for god's sakes, own what you're doing. You don't have righteousness on your side, you're just indulging in the same base slime everybody does who wants their side to win.