We shouldn't support George Galloway (hexbear.net)

submitted 6 months ago by Pluto@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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He's a transphobe and a racist.

I've seen too many on Reddit and Twitter that say "Oh but isn't it great that we're finally getting recognition!"

No. Not from him. He will likely steer the attention to his org and those that are adjacent to him, which are typically PatSocs and TERFs.

No.

We need to do better. But Galloway gets away with this shit on the left because he says the "most radical" thing next to "some problematic shit."

No.

"Some problematic shit" is still quite big.

Nobody should support George Galloway.

A typical anti-war or anti-Zionist SocDem would be better or any other milquetoast anti-war liberal or peace candidate.

^ There, I said it.

Agree or disagree, idc

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[-] Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 6 months ago

A typical anti-war or anti-Zionist SocDem would be better or any other milquetoast anti-war liberal or peace candidate.

Surely the issue is that neither of these things are on the ballot in many/most constituencies. Totally legitimate to abstain and focus on extra-parliamentary stuff tbc, because Galloway is an awful POS, but let's not pretend there are a wealth of non-problematic electoral options

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

Fair enough.

A few British comrades have pointed out the municipal and local candidates that they're voting for that are pretty anti-Zionist or at least pay lip-service to the peace movement or anti-war movement.

But obviously, not everyone will make it.

I think my problem with George Galloway is that everyone that supports him are MLs but also seem to downplay his worst (and not even just his worst, just his bad) qualities in general.

And to me, ML spaces should not be looking the other way or talking about the bloke like those, shall we say, problematic, qualities don't exist.

But yeah, thanks for engaging with me here.

[-] Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 6 months ago

Tbh I'm of the opinion that we don't have to pay much attention to him at all, other than laughing when clowns like him inevitably move into the void on Labour's left

[-] Pluto@hexbear.net 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I get that. I'm just afraid he'll reinsource certain tropes and all that. Like, yeesh, he's against abortion? Now?

[-] Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah he's awful, and it's all very cynical — just a less filtered version of the appealing to conservative religious communities that Labour do all the time (seriously, many Lab candidates will imply incredibly conservative positions on issues like abortion, depending who they're talking to)