The Weekly Flail — April 27, 2024

Winnowing the media

Overview

The shit just started to hit the fan in America. That there is still moral outrage among educated youth and faculty on American campuses at the open genocide of the Israeli government in Gaza is a cause for hope.

The moral squalor of our government in 2024 is shameful but not a surprise. That some of our lead university administrators jumped at the order to brutalize peaceful protests is cause for anger and shame.

Genocide is not a political debate. There are no two sides to complicity in genocide, no matter how hard you try and how deep you bury your head.

That our choice in this national election is between an Israeli stooge and a mentally ill, depraved criminal risks giving the election to the mentally ill criminal in reaction. There is hope that the Israeli stooge can learn a moral lesson and abandon Israel quickly. Biden at least retains some rationality.

There is no hope for the demented criminal or the frightening scum that supports him.

Closely related to the moral collapse in denouncing Israeli genocide in Gaza is an official media full-court press on climate disaster denial. The scientific data on those accelerating disasters is so bad that ignoring them is inadequate.