Thread by @GileadIni

Here's something we as a society are going to have to internalize and accept in order to right the ship:

You might be boycotted and protested for NOT behaving in a bigoted manner. When that happens, it says something about the protesters, not about you.

eatuptheborders.com/our-statement.…

Case in point will be this: Eat Up the Borders will take fire for their (appropriate and needed) apology.

Don't be Rutgers:

https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1398285741457825793

3/ Speaking of Don't be Rutgers:

I struggle to understand why the EUTB statement apologizes, also, to the Palestinian community.

Had they disinvited a Palestinian food truck because activists were mad at the PA, the, yes, absolutely apologize the the Palestinian community.

4/ Had they done that, an apology to Palestinians shouldn't be accompanied by an apology to the Jewish or Israeli community. They didn't do that. They invited a Palestinian food truck.

They disinvited Israeli Jews. They acknowledged that was wrong. Don't fear a direct apology.

5/ Back to the original point: Boycotts and protests have always been for both good and for bad causes.

There are, of course, well-known cases of people boycotting Jews, and insisting it was for a good cause, and it being for a bad cause.

https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1407762890317348871

6/ Some people seem to have a hard time recognizing bad causes and bad protesters when they're not dressed in jackboots or carrying tiki torches. Doubly so when the bad actors claim to be of the Left.

7/ So not only will we have to accept that we'll be boycotted or picketed for refraining from bigotry. We also should internalize that things to the left of other things (or purporting to be) aren't necessarily pure.