Thread by @4noura

In my most compassionate listening, I hear the folks who oppose genocide but are voting Harris as seeking to unite the center & the left in an effort to defeat fascism. There are problems with this: 🧵

This imagines that fascism is emerging only from a Trump camp. It does not recognize how the mobilization of state violence, identity politics, the disregard of law/accountability, rejection of “truth”, media censorship,& normalization of genocide stems from the Dems now.

It also forgets that in 2020, this was the same impulse that united the left with the Dems to defeat Trump. The compromise then was dropping abolition as a serious social and political priority.

With it, dropped a critique of how securitizing borders, neighborhoods, and ppl served to protect an economic & political elite that continued to accumulate and hoard resources through dispossession. The party has since platformed police and delivered genocide.

Aside from a shared commitment to settler militarism & racism, genocide has fueled an American war economy & its role as global superpower by incapacitating multilateral mechanisms. The U.S. has undermined democracy domestically and internationally.

Genocide has also obscured climate catastrophe and ecocide that - like fascists who reject science - also rejects the science demonstrating the irreparable harm of warmaking by toxic weapons on our environment.

And like fascists who reject experts and truth, the core of the Democratic Party, rejects expertise on the Middle East insisting instead that genocide in Gaza, indiscriminate bombing in Lebanon, and the threat of a nuclear war with Iran, is a “rationale” policy option.

Yes we must unite to defeat fascism. But the question is, with whom? Certainly with one another, which is why fissures among the anti-genocide camp at the seams of an upcoming election is so harmful.

Anti-fascists have to work together. We don’t have to like one another but we need to be able to work with one another. And we need to be developing a frontline regardless of 11/5 outcome, bc the threat is already here.

Note that courts are already inaccessible to many communities in the South and that SCOTUS is already stacked. Note that the Roe is already eviscerated, it has now returned to a state prerogative. Protecting reproductive rights rn means creating means of access…those have not

Been provided or promised. EPA regulations have been eviscerated and not reinstated…catastrophe is here but bc it has not been generalized or sensationalized, folks are confronting it. We should already be organizing in crisis-mode. Stop pointing fingers at folks who won’t vote

… for their own genocide as the source of harm. We’re in it. And to all of us who have agitated against genocide, we cannot act like fault lines in this election are the ones that divide or unite us.