This stupidity is depressing. The arrogance and narcissism it takes to think a dangerous stunt like this will have any effect on Gaza is staggering. In all reality, this is probably UN-helpful. Folks on the fence will see this dumbass horseshit and just write off the whole movement. Like dude fuck off, no one gives a shit that you aren't taking your AIDs meds, least of which the Israeli's. Take your god damn AIDs meds and grow up. No one in the world cares that you're intentionally hurting yourself for attention, and that's what its for. Its not because you think it'll help anyone in the world, its so you can feel self righteous and get attention. Like dude I'm fully in support of Palestinian independence and a ceasefire, I'm not even on the other side of history, this shit is just so stupid. I'm sorry no one in your life has the balls to tell it to you like it is. So I will. Best of luck I hope you don't get seriously sick from this.
so Victor's protest is pointless—but also powerfully negative, or as you said, "UN-helpful?" interesting. in any case, respectability politics isn't something i buy into, so i guess we'll have to disagree there.
where you and i DO agree is on this med strike's efficacy regarding the genocide itself: like you, like Victor, even, i don't think this med strike has the power to end Israel's war against the Palestinian people. i mean, come on, right? but i do think it could force the NYTW—which historically has been inconsistent on where it lands re: Palestine, by the way—to take up the moral stand that Victor has already claimed. if this happens, one person will have harnessed collective outrage to shift the politics of an entire institution, small though it may be. what kind of victory is that? one that demonstrates how fragile institutions really are, revealing possibilities heretofore unimagined. to me, this means and catalyzes something, as all "extreme protest" (in Aaron Bushnell's words) must.
like you, i had a very strong emotional response to Victor's intervention. you're angry that someone else made a decision about their own body without your consent or approval. I'M angry that there is nothing that Victor, or any individual, could do with their own body (beyond the didactic or symbolic) to end this horror. you feel that pointing out this uselessness is an act of bravery or clarity. EYE feel that doing something, anything, to subvert that uselessness is far more brave and clear-eyed.
your rant reads like those straight people who say queers shouldn't care about the Palestinian struggle because, "they'd throw you off the roof over there." it reads like you don't actually care about Victor's health, because if you did, you'd be calling the NYTW and demanding they call for a cease-fire, or picketing their shows, or joining Victor in their strike. you'd be doing something instead of melting down in the comments section of a request for solidarity.
This stupidity is depressing. The arrogance and narcissism it takes to think a dangerous stunt like this will have any effect on Gaza is staggering. In all reality, this is probably UN-helpful. Folks on the fence will see this dumbass horseshit and just write off the whole movement. Like dude fuck off, no one gives a shit that you aren't taking your AIDs meds, least of which the Israeli's. Take your god damn AIDs meds and grow up. No one in the world cares that you're intentionally hurting yourself for attention, and that's what its for. Its not because you think it'll help anyone in the world, its so you can feel self righteous and get attention. Like dude I'm fully in support of Palestinian independence and a ceasefire, I'm not even on the other side of history, this shit is just so stupid. I'm sorry no one in your life has the balls to tell it to you like it is. So I will. Best of luck I hope you don't get seriously sick from this.
so Victor's protest is pointless—but also powerfully negative, or as you said, "UN-helpful?" interesting. in any case, respectability politics isn't something i buy into, so i guess we'll have to disagree there.
where you and i DO agree is on this med strike's efficacy regarding the genocide itself: like you, like Victor, even, i don't think this med strike has the power to end Israel's war against the Palestinian people. i mean, come on, right? but i do think it could force the NYTW—which historically has been inconsistent on where it lands re: Palestine, by the way—to take up the moral stand that Victor has already claimed. if this happens, one person will have harnessed collective outrage to shift the politics of an entire institution, small though it may be. what kind of victory is that? one that demonstrates how fragile institutions really are, revealing possibilities heretofore unimagined. to me, this means and catalyzes something, as all "extreme protest" (in Aaron Bushnell's words) must.
like you, i had a very strong emotional response to Victor's intervention. you're angry that someone else made a decision about their own body without your consent or approval. I'M angry that there is nothing that Victor, or any individual, could do with their own body (beyond the didactic or symbolic) to end this horror. you feel that pointing out this uselessness is an act of bravery or clarity. EYE feel that doing something, anything, to subvert that uselessness is far more brave and clear-eyed.
your rant reads like those straight people who say queers shouldn't care about the Palestinian struggle because, "they'd throw you off the roof over there." it reads like you don't actually care about Victor's health, because if you did, you'd be calling the NYTW and demanding they call for a cease-fire, or picketing their shows, or joining Victor in their strike. you'd be doing something instead of melting down in the comments section of a request for solidarity.