• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    7 months ago

    Yeah. I guess I should have paid more attention to the title – applying it to a “single issue voter” (or, non-voter, I guess) who really is throwing all the stuff on the right in the garbage, in the (incorrect) belief that they’re helping the Palestinians, when in reality they’re just threatening to make things worse for literally everybody, makes sense.

    I just don’t think that’s most of the people in the tents or carrying the signs. If they had constructed the cartoon to attack all the people on Lemmy who don’t want to vote because Biden personally killed all those Gazans and loves that the war is happening, or whatever they are claiming is happening, then that makes sense. But attacking the protestors themselves seems wrong.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah I think OP the artist is doing kind of a visual strawman here, as also mentioned by this person.

      I don’t see evidence at all that any significant number of pro-Palestine individuals are single issue voters. Someone made a claim that 3% of democratic voters were single issue, but upon inquiry it turned out to be without source, and that the true number is less than 2% of all voters at the very absolute most.

      As of now, I need more evidence to disprove my belief that this post is just an outrageously patronizing false generalization of the pro-Palestine movement.

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          7 months ago

          how do you mean? (/gen as in it would be hard to poll? or that the evidence doesn’t exist? sorry im dense sometimes)

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            7 months ago

            Meaning that you likely can’t find that evidence, because the post is indeed an outrageously patronizing false generalization etc etc. 🙂