Noah BerlatskyMar 20
yes. you need to look at bigotry based on *how it affects the target* not on the basis of *what is in the heart of the person spreading slurs or bigotry.* 1

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Show threadNoah Berlatsky
in this case, fascist slurs against Jews, when used by people on the left, have a couple of ugly impacts: 1. they make Jewish people feel they are unwelcome in left spaces 2. they normalize the terms, making it harder to push back against the right.
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Show threadNoah BerlatskyMar 20
these are bad in themselves. they are also really counterproductive if the goal is Palestinian liberation. empowering the right makes it harder to gain political ground for Palestinian liberation.
Show threadNoah BerlatskyMar 20
forcing anti Zionist Jews out of left spaces weakens the coalition against Zionism by validating right wing slurs and by alienating many passionate supporters of Palestinian rights.
Show threadInky says "What the hell?!"Mar 20

@nberlat.bsky.social This is part of why I say this:

Right wing antisematism scares me.
Left wing antisematism pisses me off.

Because then you get leftists sitting there arguing for genocide of the Jews, arguing there was never a reason to found Israel, or both. Often both. And that all feeds right as you say.

Show threadDressToKILTMar 21
@InkySchwartz @nberlat.bsky.social right-wing thought really is a malignancy. Same thing as the anti-vax movement, people get one ridiculous power fantasy notion in their head, and suddenly they're voting for fascist regimes based off that one thing. Get people to believe absurdities, they'll commit atrocities, etc.
Show threadLarry ModellMar 20
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