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"Once you’ve created discursive norms in which slurs, death threats, and constant, escalatory rhetorical attacks are condoned and encouraged, it’s impossible to maintain a cordon sanitaire around specific groups. It’s all just a big joke, regardless of topic. "

Aha. Yes. I was talking past you. Sorry! But I guess i went back a step to ask about its origins, which are not in the modern period a matter of simple animus across a line of difference, which can be found everywhere, but something more profound. A technology of power. (Ref for👇 next post)

“Racism’s function is to regulate the distribution of death”? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used that same logic when calculating my portion of the tip.

I don’t know that getting people to respect their enemies enough to actually use their names is going to happen, certainly not in this environment, and that’s the only way you rein in slurs, unless you have the power to punish. Also doesn’t help that there’s been an effort to blur the lines.

“leftists are so antisemitic simply because that’s how we’ve trained ourselves to talk about anyone we don’t like” - you agree this, too, is a leftist issue only? My post broadens the views to allow us to reconsider root causes! And if ur ‘trained’ to talk shit, well, THAT is YOUR ‘excuse’

“But when it comes to popular left-wing podcasters or Twitch streamers …” STOP RIGHT THERE!!! And you will BEGIN to see your disconnect and how brainwashed society has become. If u think leftists seek civil war #2 and aim to enslave/k!ll others, youve chosen the wrong side! Or do u not see this:

“leftists are so antisemitic” because that’s how we’ve trained ourselves to talk about anyone we don’t like” - u agree? If so, ur likely ‘trained’ (brainwashed) Travel, experience others, talk to survivors, then revisit this leftist-only view! Myself, root cause extends higher/wider -no excuses

A bunch of people favor Medicare for all. Some of those people are anti - semitic. Do the Antisemites' association with the group degrade the other individuals? The cause itself? I think there's a whole thing in the constitution about this sort of thing.

I mean, it's a decent piece but I find the prescription quite self-serving, i.e. "institutional guardrails", when institutional credibility was lost partly because orgs like the ADL merging anti-Zionism with antisemitism, media like BBC running embarrassing omissions, etc.

it is always the most obvious ones they get wrong pensive

Ah, but see, you actually read the piece.

You didnt read the article, we can tell

"X? The Nazi MAGA chud child porn app? An antisemitism problem? I'm going to have to sit down, that's shocking."

At this point I don't consider anyone still using Twitter a comrade at all anyway

Bluesky too.

This counts as illiteracy.

A man can dream.

Herman Goring‘s brother rescued Jews from the camps by buying them for slave labor and letting them go.

Israel Shahak literally survived Bergen Belsen and went on to write calumnies ripped from medieval European jewhate becaues he hated religion that much, shut the fuck up on this excuse

Wait until they learn that Phyllis Schlafly was a woman!

You ever read some of the things Ben Gurion said about victims of the Holocaust? Just absolutely vile stuff. Up to and including calling some survivors whiners. Israel named an international airport after that asshole.

are you insinuating that aaron mate is somehow similar to a holocaust denier because he doesn't love israel enough?

Because I read the piece before commenting on it, haha.

I get the negative reactions, but red it. It’s not unreasonable.

Read the article before commenting on it. You moron.

Did you read the article? I'm pretty sure the only time it mentions an elected official is Mamdani, and it's in a positive light because he has made combatting anti-semitism a priority. The article is about the behavior of leftists as a community, online and offline.

And it is really important to distinguish that criticizing the *policies* against Palestinians by the Netanyahu administration, should not be confused with antisemitism. The first criticizes actions and decisions, the second criticizes identity.