Unless Biden drastically reverses course on Palestine, Muslims will not turn out for him on Election Day—critical voters in key swing states—and Democrats only have themselves to blame.

Former democratic party activists are organizing Muslims and Arab-Americans in Swing states to vote against Biden with the demand that he support a ceasefire in Gaza.

I'll allow them a little bit of electoralism this time.

  • WashedAnus [he/him]
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    9 months ago

    http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/298.html

    Linked elsewhere in the thread, but W.E.B. Dubois explains it here, in ways that still ring clearly today.

    • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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      9 months ago

      Thanks for pointing out the discourse from elsewhere in the thread (and from history) , I'll give it a skim-read soon and an honest sober read tomorrow

    • synae[he/him]@lemmy.sdf.org
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      8 months ago

      So the part of this that stood out to me the most is this:

      Is the refusal to vote in this phony election a counsel of despair? No, it is dogged hope. It is hope that if twenty-five million voters refrain from voting in 1956 because of their own accord and not because of a sly wink from Khrushchev, this might make the American people ask how much longer this dumb farce can proceed without even a whimper of protest.

      Now we have ~80 million people abstaining in the 2020 elections (per NPR: https://www.npr.org/2020/12/15/945031391/poll-despite-record-turnout-80-million-americans-didnt-vote-heres-why), and yet the dumb farce goes on. If people continue removing themselves from the voter pool, it'll still continue on. I'm failing to see the hope here. Maybe that's why I'm having a hard time understanding this point of view.

      Thanks again for pointing me to that link.