Black Lives Matter is too aggressive for libs. Literally just saying that lives matter is too much.
So why bother to temper it at all. If anyone says anything against the status quo libs will hand wring and pearl clutch so you may as well go big
The existence of Israel itself is far more provocative and aggressive than the protest chant against it.
No, in a practical sense there is nothing that is passive and submissive enough that it will be acceptable for those that view from the river to the sea as too provocative and too aggressive.
Centrists who hum and haw about this are disingenous, they oppose the sentiment itself, they feel that the idea of Palestinians in equal power to Israelis is threatening and would prefer a complete fantasy vision of a peaceful relationship of submission by the Palestinians to the Israelis.
Lib shit. Same garbage as When people were saying "Defund the police" needed to be watered down (when it was already a watered down version of Abolish The Police).
It's this notion that finding the prefect slogan will be the mechanism that affects change.
We must embrace our true nature and just have an entire wall of text that explores every nuance of the issue as our slogan.
Trying to craft a perfect slogan to appease the media and hand-wringing liberals is pointless. They don't want to come up with something better, they just want you to shut up.
I can see how, but it was a contemporaneous response to Kate Smith's "God Bless America", refuting the idea of manifest destiny - there's a verse about private property that is rarely included in recordings that makes it a lot more clear.
The original Woody Guthrie version is a bit better, the one with the verses that are usually removed because they’re too critical of that manifest destiny myth. Pete Seeger was known for performing this one too
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The original version of the song was critical of private property and colonialism, to be fair.
What is aggressive or provocative about wishing a land be free for all peoples to live and prosper in equality?
I don't care. You have to realise that people who are claiming it's too provocative are completely cynical. They don't want you to find a less provocative slogan, they want you to shut up about palestinian rights
it doesnt matter what your chant is the libs and zionists will claim it is antisemitic and attack you for it no matter what
I think if your goal to to gain support from people who may have been propagandized on the topic into a completely pro-Israel stance from an early age, then it's not very productive. On the other hand if you focus on the atrocities, the human rights abuses, humanizing the victims, pointing out Israeli dehumanizing of the victims, and an accurate history of the conflict, as well as citing leftist Jewish and Israeli sources to bolster your position, then you have a much higher chance of actually moving individuals and groups towards a leftist position here.
It also never hurts to remind people that, like most major conflicts throughout recent global history, this too was the fault of the English.