Watching Dems chirp in unison that OF COURSE they care about anti-Semitic violence, BUT let's not forget about all the Islamophobia, is a hilarious reminder that they really do act as a hive-mind. They don't have principles, they have focus-grouped copy-pasted press releases.
Note well, American Jewish voters, that Dems only belatedly emitted this pre-written wheeze of moral equivalence because the wave of anti-Semitic violence perpetrated by their preferred constituents grew so huge that their media couldn't hide the story any more.
The variables in the Democrats' Marxist core operating system haven't changed. Jews are still Evil Rich White Guys and Palestinian terrorists are still Oppressed Brown People. Dems only croaked out this "all lives matter" junk when they absolutely had to, not a moment sooner.
As we saw with Black Lives Matter, when saying "all lives matter" or rationally discussing crime statistics was denounced as racism, when Dems are truly dedicated to a constituency, they don't tolerate any equivalence or qualifications at all.
Only when they were caught dead to rights inspiring a wave of anti-Semitic violence with their irresponsible rhetoric, and only when they realized their media couldn't protect them any longer, did the Dems cough up this "Anti-Semitism AND Islamophobia" hairball.
The Dem Party will reluctantly issue some box-checking rhetoric against anti-Semitism when it absolutely has to - and even then it's qualified and hedged. They have calculated it's good enough to keep Jewish votes and money locked in. They'll never do more than that.
And notice the way Dems' copy-pasted statement is worded to make both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia seem like misdeeds of the hated Others, the Deplorables, not the actions of Dem constituencies inspired by Dem rhetoric. As always, the fault is never with the Woke. /end
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It's like Tom Tuttle from Tacoma in "Volunteers." We sent over a tough-guy wrestler action star, and in two seconds flat we get back a sniveling toady regurgitating Communist propaganda.
Anybody still think globalist economic and cultural engagement will liberalize China?
You know what will put a stop to this disgusting cowardice from Hollywood? Make it cost more for them to suck up to China than it would cost to speak up for freedom and justice. Kill this Fast and Furious movie dead at the box office and scare the ever-loving hell out of studios.
Nothing ELSE will do it, that's for sure, China has proven that its "sharp power" policies - weaponizing its entire economy to serve the geopolitical interests of the Communist Party, using its financial leverage to compel obedience from "free" world corporations - WORKS.
The Left's infamous softness on crime flows from the core Marxist dynamic of oppressors vs. oppressed. If profit is theft, then thieves who steal from capitalism's unfair winners are just "taking back" what is rightfully theirs. Criminals have no agency.
This is why real-world experiences with crime and policing are always baffling to Democrat politicians and left-wing academics. They cannot accept the notion that criminals respond rationally to incentives and opportunities - i.e. intensive policing and prosecution reduce crime.
Leftist media tends to vomit out headlines like "Crime Rates Decline Despite Increase in Jail Population" because they cannot accept that policing and prosecution takes career criminals off the street and intimidates would-be lawbreakers by increasing the cost of crime.
It's sad how many people have been programmed to think Marxism and socialism just mean "generous welfare benefits," so anyone who criticizes those ideologies is just a meanie who wants poor people to starve.
That's not thinking, it's regurgitating Marxist cant. Of COURSE totalitarian collectivists want to be given sole credit for "caring about the poor" - or more importantly, to make people think that only be submitting to their toxic ideologies can the unfortunate be cared for.
The idea does not survive a moment of reflection, or a single look at the life in the real world. The unfortunate benefit far more - orders of magnitude more - from the prosperity and technological innovation of capitalism than from the allegedly tender ministrations of Marxists.
The Left loves cancel culture, but it needs to immunize properly credentialed members of the Left and its Journalism Guild from cancellation, so it's working hard to plant the idea that criticism of them is always "bad faith" and should be ignored.
It's a nifty racket. Lefties can dig up ancient comments or actions from decades ago, or fabricate controversy, but as soon as a credentialed lefty is hit with smelly old email, tweet, or Facebook post, suddenly the intentions of the people who uncovered it are the story.
Of course, lefties aren't going to dig up "problematic" material about credentialed lefties, so everything that ever threatens people of the Left with cancellation will come from someone who isn't a leftie, and is therefore acting in "bad faith" by definition.
Conservatives of my generation made the terrible mistake of believing Marxism was fatally discredited with the fall of the Soviet Union, and only a few aging freaks in campus faculty still took it seriously. We weren't ready for the next wave of the mind-virus and its variants.
It was an easy mistake to make. How could people cling to an ideology that spread death, poverty, and failure around the world, once its primary nation-state supporter lay in ruins - its claims of success across the decades exposed as lies, its victims celebrating their freedom?
How could so many people ignore the hideous history of Marxism and continue to believe THIS time it will work, THIS time all the bugs have been ironed out, THIS time the right people are finally in charge? Forgive my generation for thinking the horror was finally over.
American Jews who vote Democrat should look at Dems rooting for Hamas and understand: this is all Critical Race Theory for them. It's the brain rot that has utterly consumed their collective hive-mind. Oppressed brown people vs. evil rich white oppressors.
Jews are evil rich white oppressors to the left-wing hive mind - and yes, that includes American Jews who currently vote for them. They will grudgingly give you a limited parole from Critical Race Theory as long as they need your money and votes, and you pay tribute to CRT.
It should be more clear than ever, after the events in Israel and Gaza, that Jews are White Oppressors to the CRT hive mind. You'll NEVER be People of Color. You'll never sit atop the intersectional totem pole. You're like Woke CEOs, receiving indulgences because you pay tribute.