Geoff Campbell, the old Miami Gator, is cheesed, but why?

A fauxgressive is exposed, mainly over Zionism, followed by his rebranding, and more recently, his calling the likes of Ryan Knight fauxgressives (in essence) themselves, all while backing various bipartisan foreign policy establishment hackery.

I seem to have cheesed off the old Miami Gator Campbell last night with this tweet.

Yeah, if anything, Geoff strikes me as a down the line bipartisan foreign policy establishment blank check backer of Ukraine. (And, given his Zionist-based stance on Palestine, totally not surprising.)

— TheRealSocraticGadfly: Friends Crushes Xi Jinping (@real_gadfly) April 16, 2022

To which he responded:

“Zionist-based stance?”
Wtf are you talking about?

Why do you folks just make things up about me? Seriously?

— Geoff Campbell (MiamiGator) (@GeoffMiami) April 20, 2022

 To which I offered this:

Uhh, Geoff, you used to have "Zionist" in yr profile. (I see that, for whatever reason, you've deleted that now. And the "Ashkenazi.") That would be the first reason why. 2nd reason? Even with dropping that? Discussed the back story a year ago https://t.co/HQ2UW6RpRT

— TheRealSocraticGadfly: Friends Crushes Xi Jinping (@real_gadfly) April 20, 2022

(Update, Oct. 29, 2022: He's added "Ashkenazi" back. And, if he dropped the purplish Star of Israel emoji, it's back. If not, he's added it anew. Oh, while I have you on the phone, Ashkenazi is not an ethnicity or even a sub-ethnicity. It's a purely linguistic distinction, or, if you will, a sociological distinction based on a linguistic one, or intertwined with it. Ashkenazi speakers in the Rhineland or descended from them, within sub-ethnicity or sub-sub-ethnicity, have a fair amount of German ancestry, of course, and even some old Roman ancestry. Those in, or descended from, those in eastern Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine have a fair amount of Slav ancestry and in all likelihood, at least bits of Khazar ancestry. The "Khazar hypothesis," suitably modified and looking at eastern Ashkenazi speakers only, is not totally wrong.)

 

Then this:

Let's just do a thread on this to save Miami Geoff's fanbois a bit of reading. The backstory is BDS, and how much, or how little, the Gator may tweet and talk about it. (I DO find it interesting that he's edited his profile bio, and relatively recently.) 2/x

— TheRealSocraticGadfly: Friends Crushes Xi Jinping (@real_gadfly) April 20, 2022

If I have more on the thread, just go there.

Let me add  more things to the original post of last year linked in the tweet two tweets above. Both are related to that Google search last year, in the blog post at my one tweet. First, the Gator isn't the only Geoff Campbell I get when I re-run that "Geoff Campbell" + "BDS" search. Second, even if he were the only one? I'd probably done 10x that many Tweets mentioning BDS counting backward from last August to the start of my Twitter presence on my first account. And, I've done at least 52 since then.

Second, Geoff, why DID you drop the "Zionist" and the "Ashkenazi" from your profile? (AFAIK, the Wayback Machine doesn't capture former versions of a Twitter profile, so I can't offer Stone Cold Steve Austin proof. But he did have that.)

(UPDATE: My guess is that Geoff did this for branding purposes. He knew he wouldn't look pergressuve enough with it on his profile.)

But wait, it gets better. Geoff retweeted this:

Using Palestinian struggles as a shield for your disgusting politics is not a new low but it's still low

— barbarism critic (@SxarletRed) April 22, 2022

Now, this isn't the only person I've seen make this claim. But, you know what? The likes of me as well as Mondoweiss rejects whataboutism on Palestine. And, I don't know what allegedly disgusting politics are being called out.

And, that's followed by Geoff himself doing a callout on someone else, which gives a bankshot of both minimizing Palestinian issues and running the bipartisan foreign policy establishment line on Ukraine.

This is so disingenuous and gross. Misrepresenting what’s happening doesn’t help Palestinians. Making grotesque comparisons for clicks from your edgelord audience doesn’t help Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/qIZS7p7wXi

— Geoff Campbell (MiamiGator) (@GeoffMiami) April 22, 2022

Shock me. The fact is that Geoff's not given any real interest in Palestinians from anything I've ever seen.

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Update, Oct 28: In supporting the Congressional Progressive Caucus' craven groveling on Ukraine, Geoff's showing that he's more and more of a fauxgressive on issues outside Zionism, too. Seriously, it's deep shit. Beyond supporting the Progressive Cock's sellout, he supports Bernie Sanders' support of that, claiming that Bernie continues to fight imperialism when people like me, Jeff St. Clair of Counterpunch and other actual leftists know better. See this long Twitter thread of mine for m ore.

But, as for BDS? Since we know Bernie officially hates it, that's probably part of his appeal to the Gator.