I think for a lot of them it has little to do with Palestine or any of the other issues but rather to belong to a group cosplaying barricade revolutionaries while doing absolutely nothing meaningful.
A lot of these political grassroot movements have been co-opted by childish narcissists who do way more to hurt the cause than they ever do to further it.
They’re literally there for the performative bullshit, the purity testing, the virtue signalling, the gatekeeping, the outrage and the accusations. They’re not there for the politics, they are there for the drama and feeling of self importance. They pretend to have radical principles so that they can point at anyone and say- “as long as you are not as extreme in your views as I am in mine, you are in favor of the things I am against”.
I think for a lot of them it has little to do with Palestine or any of the other issues but rather to belong to a group cosplaying barricade revolutionaries while doing absolutely nothing meaningful.
A lot of these political grassroot movements have been co-opted by childish narcissists who do way more to hurt the cause than they ever do to further it.
They’re literally there for the performative bullshit, the purity testing, the virtue signalling, the gatekeeping, the outrage and the accusations. They’re not there for the politics, they are there for the drama and feeling of self importance. They pretend to have radical principles so that they can point at anyone and say- “as long as you are not as extreme in your views as I am in mine, you are in favor of the things I am against”.