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I'm pretty forgiving (or not even forgiving bc there isn't necessarily anything to forgive) when people say something that happens to play into an antisemitic trope. There will be times when a person who is Jewish is cheap. What's totally disgusting & needs to be "called out"...
is the disingenuous, opportunistic and hypocritical weaponization of antisemitism in order to stifle, delegitimize or silence criticism of Israel and the related weaponization of identity politics, sensitivity and deference for political ends. If Sanders is sexist because he...
wags his fingers, if he is sexist because some women have said that, though other women think it's not at all sexist, if we defer to the judgement of the people at the receiving end of whatever ism or phobia then we have to do this consistently. I think it's a fine line & hard...
To navigate questions of authority and voice and who gets to speak for what. Obviously Clarence Thomas doesn’t represent “The” “Black voice,” ( there isn’t ever “the,”) if he says that affirmative action is racist. But this isn’t a hard call. The Omar thing eliminates any...
Question of nuance or ambiguity. If a Black Muslim congresswoman from Somalia deserves to be chided (which she didn’t) for saying something that is either antisemitic or could possibly be construed as antisemitic or antisemitic-trope echoing, there is just now way to in good...
Faith defend an established newspaper, with professional editors run by people born and raised in the U.S. writing and illustrating an article that plays into Jewish stereotypes in a much stronger way. The Jew as cheap stereotype is antisemitism 101. There’s no way in hell...
That neither the writer nor the editor nor the artist now the graphics people or whatever didn’t predict having an image of sanders standing next to a tree of money, calling him cheap AND rich thought that this would perhaps play into the stereotype of the cheap & rich Jew...
But sanders doesn’t deserve the consideration or the cultural or historical sensitivity that he’s accused of lacking? He’s sexist because he wags his fingers which plays into a trope of silencing a woman? Because some women are triggered by him? But he gets to be called a fake..
Jew, a cheap and rich Jew? The guy who absolutely never hijacks the holocaust which wiped out half of his dad’s family. Who can’t even say that this experience formed his Jewish identity? Because Jeffrey Goldberg says he can’t? Because Jeffrey Goldberg is so craven that he...
Wants to have the monopoly on hijacking the holocaust to justify Israel’s crimes against humanity? Sanders, the racist, sexist, bad on intersectionality is the ONLY one in the race to boycott aipac. The only one to acknowledge Palestinians as people. The only one to try to...
Highlight their suffering. This is just the latest example of how awful the corporate media and all the so called liberals or regurgitate it are. This is beyond Sanders. This is about the way certain people have created a twilight zone reality where sanders is asked to...
Apologize for opposing Iraq! It’s not just how pervasive these narratives are. It’s how they are such obvious and sordid inversions of reality. Somehow we’re supposed to get on board with regime change. the media has no cred whatsoever. And that’s not bc trump says that. It’s...
The media proved it by helping Trump win. And they’re doing it again. Even as they think they’re going after him. It’s all so exhausting and I didn’t know I would end this thread on this note or that I would go on such a long thread but I guess the common theme of this rant is...
How craven and dishonest the corporate media is. How gross the media circle jerk is. How Orwellian it is. How I always knew fox was terrible but didn’t get just how bad msnbc is. How weird it is when you can’t find a single voice on msnbc saying maybe regime change isn’t a...
Good idea. All the group think, herd mentality, hypocrisy, dishonesty, smearing, blacklisting, war mongering, feminists who don’t actually care about minimum wage workers or women and for whom feminism is a pants suit issue or an interaction in a board room is just so draining...
And depressing and scary and dangerous.
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