• Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    17·
    6 days ago

    They’re going to learn that you can’t just say antisemite to shut people up or make them scared. Words have meaning and if you disregard their meaning and use them too aggressively, they lose their meaning, as well as the power associated with them.

    Back in the day, antisemite was an awful accusation which made someone look awful, literally equating them to a nazi. Nowadays it’s anyone who supports palestine. So if someone calls me an antisemite these days for being against genocide and occupation of Palestine, I’m just going to laugh at them because they’re a chud who can’t be taken seriously.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      4·
      5 days ago

      i hope they learn! :( it’s my understanding that israel and pro-israel media are very aware that they are galvanizing further antisemitism on purpose to some degree, because it lends credence to the idea that a zionist state must exist.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        5 days ago

        I have little faith that they will, at least not before eroding the meaning of the term completely, to the point people find being called antisemitic or an antisemite to not carry any weight, and just be a meaningless insult like “butthead” or “peabrain” something you say to try and make people feel bad or dumb, but doesn’t have any real meaning. It might also be seen as a way to silence real dissent against horrible things, and that’s even worse because it means people not only won’t take it seriously, they’d consider the people saying it, even ones using it legitimately, to be trying to enact suppression.

        Ultimately what they are doing is very bad and has negative long-term consequences, which they seem to be blatantly neglecting or disregarding.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      312·
      7 days ago

      yeah. like the ADL, in addition to the noble task of fighting real antisemitism, they also loop all the way around on the horseshoe back to being antisemitic themselves because they consider all anti-Zionism/criticism of this Israeli state to be antisemitism. :/

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    18·
    7 days ago

    I guess I’m antisemitic. I’m not a hereditary jew, but my father is.

    But principle is super important to me, and the current situation in Israel shows us its not what the German Reich did in the holocaust that is offensive, but to whom it was done. I wonder if our zionist brethren ever cared about the Roma, the disabled, the LGBT, heck the civilians who had jobs Heydrich didn’t approve.

    Who will care when ICE decides their overflowing detention centers cost too much to maintain, and deporting them all is too much work? Who will care when they decide on the solution to the immigrant question.

    Interestingly, Jewish media during the German Reich was more sympathetic to NSDAP then they were their working-class Jewish brethren. It tracks with the non-right-wing media in the US (NYT / LAT / WaPo) are happy to give Trump all the press he wants (and neglected the whole Harris campaign)

    I think it was a class war all along.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    141·
    6 days ago

    Im voting Hasan Piker, considering antisemite of the year basically means “most critical of Israel” its basically a medal of honor (except Candace Owens, shes just an antisemite). Personally as a Jewish person I would love to one day be “antisemite of the year” :3

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      she didn’t do enough tier lists, as a conservative, Owens’ whole life is centered around putting other people down, something Frogan could never aspire to achieve in one livestream panel /s

      • wick@lemm.ee
        1·
        4 days ago

        Maybe she’ll have a larger backlog of content to support her nomination by 2025, and a rocky montage to showcase it… Holy shit I want to see that meme…

  • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
    581·
    7 days ago

    The first actual antisemite this award has been given to was Kanye last year. Every other award till then was given to people who simply support Palestine. Nasty.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafeOPEnglish
        34·
        7 days ago

        never forget that Candace Owens was allowed to remain working at Ben Shapiro-owned Daily Wire through multiple actually antisemitic comments, and was only fired when she criticized Israel 1 time. 😭