Cornel West says he wouldn’t accept position in Harris administration: No compromise with ‘genocide’ - Washington Examiner
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"You've got to have a social movement on the outside that generates leaders who have a history of being anti-genocide," the third-party leader said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18983704

West spoke with the Washington Examiner’s Christian Datoc at the Abandon Biden convention, hosted down the street from the Democratic National Convention. He denied in strong terms that he had ever been a fan of “top cop” Vice President Kamala Harris and accused her of complicity in genocide.

    • jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      I would agree, in this case, due to being against genocide.

      It is an easy choice when Blue MAGA and MAGA are pro-genocide.

      “If you want something crucial like genocide… you’ve got to have a social movement on the outside that generate leaders who have a history of being anti-genocide,” he continued. “You can’t have leaders who’ve been tied to genocide most of their career, and act as if they’re going to make a promise and then try to bring you in. You get co-opted, and you end up selling out, and they turn away from their prompt what they’ve done all the time, but they can’t meet the promise of dealing with poverty, wealth inequality, mass incarceration, that one isolated politician who’s been tied to say all this time is going to do that. No, no, not at all.”

      West compared to the situation of slavery, where both sides were evil for partaking in it, and neither could be joined by people of good conscience.