„We’re looking at over 40,000 Palestinians that have died under Israeli bombardment and the current US administration has been continuing to provide weapons to Israel that have been dropping on innocent Gazans.To me, when I process this, I weigh through all of the people living under extreme levels of oppression especially outside of places even like New York. I think about the women that are bleeding out in ER rooms because they live in red states. I think about trans kids that are living in places where their entire families are trying to figure out if they need to pack up their entire lives and move somewhere else. We have to hold all of those things at once, and so to me the conclusion that I’ve come to is having more people suffer to put on top of the already horrific suffering that’s going on in Gaza is not something that I think I’m comfortable with.“
In other words 40,000 Gazans have died on behalf of women having abortions and trans kids living especially outside of places even like New York. Stopping the bombing of Gaza and possibly limiting access to abortion or gender-changing operations for trans children is not something AOC thinks she’s comfortable with, and being comfortable with something is a Democratic American’s litmus test for action, or rather inaction.
