Representatives from Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies firmly but politely told the abortion fund it should no longer expect funding from the foundation, stripping the organization of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a region with multiple abortion bans that force people to travel long distances for care.
The Schusterman Family Foundation portrays itself as a supporter of progressive issues while simultaneously donating to “hawkish, pro-Israel causes,” The Intercept reported. This includes more than $1 million in 2019 to the American Israel Education Fund, a charitable organization founded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). A report published in 2019, written and researched by Stephanie Skora and supported by Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago, the National Lawyers Guild, and Independent Jewish Voices in Ottawa Carleton, also found that the foundation has “an extensive history of giving to right-wing organizations.” The report was written to expose the pinkwashing practices of A Wider Bridge, an organization that purports to build “a strong relationship between the LGBTQ communities in North America and Israel.”
If your “progressive” stances are tied to your political beliefs. Then it’s not a progressive stance. Just a politically convenient one.
If your “progressive” stances are tied to your political beliefs. Then it’s not a progressive stance. Just a politically convenient one.
I think it might be quite common for ‘progressive’ stances to be politically convenient. I think enough people want the status quo to remain roughly as it is for this to be the case, no matter how ruinous the status quo might be.
Progressives are the ones who champion for change for the common good. The ones who just want status quo are the ones who advocate for silence, not peace or justice. At best, they are moderates, at worst they are enablers.
MLK said it very beautifully and much better than I ever could when discussing this regarding Black rights:
"First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”
I find that a lot of people calling themselves ‘progressive’ do not follow through on enacting change.
