• Waylander [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    "If you hate racism, that means you have to hate Israel" - this lady

    I swear to god, liberals are creating anti-semitism wherever they go by using Jews as a bludgeon against any non-lib group. If I was Jewish I'd be pretty pissed off.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      “If you hate racism, that means you have to hate Israel”

      Well, yeah

      • Waylander [he/him,they/them]
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        4 years ago

        I mean, yes, but not for the reasons this lady thinks. And the sorts of folks who're likely to read that article will come out thinking that being anti-racist means you hate Jews (which is obviously the completely wrong way around).

          • Waylander [he/him,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            I think it's less that staunch anti-racists are reading a shitty lib take and going 'oh yeah I hate jews now' and more that kinda switched-off centrist-y types who don't really have an opinion are skimming a bunch of headlines like 'here's why anti-racist campaigners are cancelling Israel, by Trust Fund Baby #17' and over time it builds up a negative association that they're not even fully aware of. And that then makes them vulnerable to anti-semitic propaganda.

  • regul [any]
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    4 years ago

    Gotta be a speedrun to conflate anti-Israel with anti-semitism .

  • artangels [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    i hate extremism, even when it comes to anti racism - this lady.

  • OhWell [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Liberals accuse everything left of them being anti-semetic. Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or BLM.

    It's actually kinda funny cause as much as they scream about Russia and China supposedly influencing our elections, they don't say a word about Israel (or even Saudi Arabia). Most politicians in congress have Israeli citizenship and Israel is always a major talking point for both political parties.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Just call it 51th state goddamit.

      • OhWell [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yes, as my friend used to refer to it as 'America's little beacon of whiteness in the middle east'.

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Wow, I had never heard of the pro Hitler muslims.