Yes, he's dead, recently; I meant active support when he was alive.
He got VERY incensed with Obama for criticizing settlement.
I think he said many pertinent and wise things! And in fact I don't even disagree with the quote. The thing is in this context, considering the quote as a touchstone and a reason to be concerned that "nice people" would take the excuse to sit this one out, it is being referred to in context of moral authority . . . which means the whole context is also pertinent.
Because he sat that one out. Because things got complicated on him: because suddenly the issues of oppression and repression didn't present him with a nice Clear Cut situation of one aggressor and one victim, but his own victimized people doing unfortunate shit to another people and victimising them, while trying to figure out how to exist, and he just . . . would not engage, reducing things to "politics" and stating that this was "above politics", etc.
So like: tbh, he's right. Silence is always comforting to the oppressor, not the oppressed. It's just . . . then shit gets complicated, as his own life illustrated. Which means that even if it's true, his famous quote (which in no small part gets its authority because of his status as a Jewish Holocaust survivor and I'm not even saying it shouldn't - it should!) . . . doesn't support the binary, because of context.
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Yes, he's dead, recently; I meant active support when he was alive.
He got VERY incensed with Obama for criticizing settlement.
I think he said many pertinent and wise things! And in fact I don't even disagree with the quote. The thing is in this context, considering the quote as a touchstone and a reason to be concerned that "nice people" would take the excuse to sit this one out, it is being referred to in context of moral authority . . . which means the whole context is also pertinent.
Because he sat that one out. Because things got complicated on him: because suddenly the issues of oppression and repression didn't present him with a nice Clear Cut situation of one aggressor and one victim, but his own victimized people doing unfortunate shit to another people and victimising them, while trying to figure out how to exist, and he just . . . would not engage, reducing things to "politics" and stating that this was "above politics", etc.
So like: tbh, he's right. Silence is always comforting to the oppressor, not the oppressed. It's just . . . then shit gets complicated, as his own life illustrated. Which means that even if it's true, his famous quote (which in no small part gets its authority because of his status as a Jewish Holocaust survivor and I'm not even saying it shouldn't - it should!) . . . doesn't support the binary, because of context.
Because shit never stays that simple.