It seems Vox is in the business of antisemitic tropes now.
A challenge to my readers, let's find and point out all the antisemitic statements and innuendos in this piece about Jerry Seinfield. Whether you like Seinfeld, or agree with Seinfeld is another story, and not what we're discussing.
https://www.vox.com/culture/354953/jerry-seinfeld-controversy-backlash
BTW, I wasn't looking for antisemitism. Google News suggested this article about Seinfeld to me, and reading it was a shock.
@serge "criticism Seinfeld has frequently reframed as antisemitic".
It's amazing how no attempt is made to even consider that a Jew stating they face antisemitism is telling the truth. It is self-evident that they are just reacting to "criticism" that they have "reframed" as antisemitism. Hard to imagine this rhetoric from Vox if a member of a different minority group had claimed that they faced discrimination or bigotry.
@benkap @serge honestly, it is not that uncommon for people who consider themselves to be on the left to team up and declare that some racist thing they said or did was not racist, that painting it as such is an overreaction, and typically an appeal to the fact that they are leftists and thus must be decent people. (This is because doing racist things is often conflated with being a racist.)
So yeah… It is definitely the case that Jews are rarely believed when we call out antisemitism, but it is not unique, it is an experience shared with a lot of BIPOC.
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Ben K 🇮🇱
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