stux⚡️Shit. I can’t imagine what teaching must be like these days 😟
David Colquhoun on Bluesky@stux the legacy of Trump 😭
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When folks say that antisemitism is due to a specific politician, as a Jew, I find this highly offensive.
It allows people to ignore the antisemitism in their circles by "othering" it, or making it into a political talking point.
It turns Jew hatred into a political tokenization game whereby Jews are dehumanized and antisemitism is simply "a tool of the left" or "a tool of right".
Please refrain from doing it.
Sören@emacsen @david_colquhoun @stux @SummerDay @adam @TheezyThee are you denying that Trump played a big role in normalizing antisemitism again in the 21st century?
@chucker @david_colquhoun @stux @SummerDay @adam @TheezyThee
This and @david_colquhoun 's reply is highly offensive, and is precisely the antisemitic behavior that Jews such as myself are describing.
When a Jew tells you that antisemitism is not tied to a political party, but ubiquitous, and then expresses concerns of being used as a pawn, and your response is engage in that exact behavior. there's no conclusion to draw other than that you enjoy using Jews as political pawns.
Patty Kimura@emacsen @chucker @david_colquhoun @stux @SummerDay @adam @TheezyThee Both things are true. I speak as a targeted Asian American. Trump didn't start racism or antisemitism, but he enabled, engaged, and inflamed for political purposes. We don't ignore Hitler's role just because he wasn't alone in persecuting Jews, LGBT, Romani. But, to our peril, we do ignore the antisemitism in the US that denied Jewish refugees safe haven and denied American Jews equality. We can face both truths, I believe.
@pattykimura @chucker @david_colquhoun @stux @SummerDay @adam @TheezyThee
100% that there is a role that certain politicians play in rhetoric or policy, but what disturbs me greatly is how often I hear "it's a right wing problem" from the left, and "it's a left wing problem" from the right, both tokenizing and trivializing antisemitism to score political points.