Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said in an interview that aired Sunday that he believed opening up to the public about his mental health struggles earlier this year would negatively impact his career.
In an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press,” Fetterman opened up about his battle with clinical depression earlier this year and urged those facing mental health issues to seek help. He said that for the first couple of weeks while being treated for depression at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, he felt scared about sharing his experiences publicly.
You’re framing the opposition as supporting genocide - either in bad faith or ignorance. No-one’s going to waste their time discussing this with you.
Genocide is what they’re up to. People could at least be honest with themselves about what they’re supporting.
Article 2 of the Convention defines genocide as ... any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. — Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2[7]It’s as plain as day.
It requires an intent to destroy all Palestinians as a group. That’s the debatable part. It is not enough to just not just have a different weighting of military value vs civilian casualties - it requires systemic intent to destroy the whole or a significant part of the group.
If that isn’t required, every battle ever conducted is genocide, every war was genocide. It really dilutes the meaning of genocide.
This is what they are about.
They are telling you who they are. Believe them.
That it what he is about. If op-eds were government policy we’d all be super fucked.
It’s troubling and no doubt he’s trying to push the Overton window in Israel much like our hard right fuckwits do.
But that is not all of Israel - any more than Lauren Boebert speaks for me.
There’s a hefty supply of various proof that genocide and land seizure is the end goal, not our fault you refuse to accept that.
Because a genocide is happening, and he is standing in defense of it.
If youre pretending its not a genocide, you are doing so in bad faith or ignorance. Ample evidence has been shown.