A career civil servant described tension between their commitment to challenging rights abuses and their job.

ā€œIā€™m trying to educate people about Palestine through social media, but Iā€™m worried Iā€™ll lose my security clearance for criticizing the president or blaming the U.S. for civilian massacre,ā€ they told HuffPost. ā€œI feel like thereā€™s no place for me in America anymore, and Iā€™m on thin ice with my clearance because of my heritage and because I care about my people dying.ā€

The seemingly stifled internal debate undercuts Bidenā€™s narrative that his administration is historically diverse and open to perspectives from traditionally marginalized groups, including on questions of global affairs.

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    So now you try to play heart strings. The US has supported Isreal since there was one. If you think that will somehow change because you got a job with the governmentā€¦if you think you, as a regular government employee will change that policyā€¦then you may not be smart enough for your position to begin with.

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      So now you try to play heart strings.

      No, I thought I might get you to see it more clearly if you imagined it happening to you. Less abstract that wa. Guess I didnā€™t account for you having zero empathy AND no imagination/understanding.

      The US has supported Isreal since there was one

      Holy sunk cost fallacy, Batman! Just because the US government has had a long history of defending Netanyahu and other far right warn criminals doesnā€™t mean that continuing to do so is a good idea or even not reprehensible. You know that theyā€™re denying the millions of Palestinians in Gaza food, water and medicine too, now? Does that sound like a good thing to support to you? Something we need to make sure someone gets away with?

      if you think you, as a regular government employee will change that policy

      Thatā€™s not what anyone except you is saying, though. Theyā€™re not asking to dictate policy. Theyā€™re just not overly thrilled by being censored and met with hostility for not seeing eye to eye with it.

      If you donā€™t get that by now

      then you may not be smart enough

      for this conversation to be worth any more time and effort. Have the day you deserve.

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        No, I thought I might get you to see it more clearly if you imagined it happening to you.

        Well, I could try to get you to imagine your family getting murdered in front of you by Hamas. But, I realize it would not affect you and it is not salient to the discussion.

        Just because the US government has had a long history of defending Netanyahu and other far right ā€¦

        Much longer than that. Since 1948.

        Theyā€™re not asking to dictate policy. Theyā€™re just not overly thrilled by being censored

        Since they are not wanting to dictate policy, they have to live with it. They are not being censored. Read the article.