It's one of those blue-check powered long tweets, so it hardly seems worth pointing out if it - but there's an important point here I feel has to be made. Here's the tweet. I'll summarize his argument:
Protests against the Viet Nam War were legitimate and you can tell because they did not unfurl the flag of the enemy or cheer for the Viet Cong. These things are not true of the pro-Palestine protests where there are Palestine flags everywhere.
A lot of people have hit back on him by pointing out that Viet Nam War protests did in fact feature support for the Viet Cong and NVA. He sidesteps this by saying that those flags and cheers were fringe extremists - whereas Palestine flags are rampant at current rallies.
But no one is noting the actual problem with his argument. And that is that he is a genocidal fucking monster. Let me clarify the point.
Palestine =/= Hamas..
The flag of Palestine is not the flag of Hamas. It is not the flag of "the enemy" - it is the flag of the victims. But here we have this shitbag fucking asshole trying to conflate the two. He's saying that the flag of Palestine is the flag of terrorism. He's saying that all Palestinians are terrorists and therefore are legitimate targets. He is echoing Israeli President Isaac Herzog's genocidal claim that there is no such thing as an innocent Gazan. It's genocidal and he should feel deep shame for having put it into the public.
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